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...Three bars were acquired: the Chicago Club, Gold Bar and Tiffany’s a Go-Go. The Chicago was judged too large and expensive to run and was subsequently sold....
...At one point last autumn, Chicago had more than 3,000 migrants living inside and outside police stations because shelters were full....
...Find out more about how police intervention could further inflame tensions....
...Trump case: Donald Trump’s co-defendants have until today to be booked by police in Atlanta on charges related to 2020 election interference....
...New York City mayor Eric Adams, a former police officer, has hinted that he would support further rollbacks....
...The surging numbers have spurred a political clash over migration policy in Washington as Republicans accuse President Joe Biden of failing to police the near-2,000 mile frontier....
...Vallas has said he will swell the ranks of police with “hundreds” of retired officers who will return to work if he becomes mayor. He has the backing of the city’s police union....
...Earlier on Tuesday, Vallas was showing high vote counts in wards located on the north-west and south-west sides, which are predominantly white and home to many of the city’s police officers and firefighters...
...She points to the scarred intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue where Floyd was murdered, and which city officials have pledged to redevelop....
...Further south, Near North Side, an area that includes Gold Coast and River North, is popular with top-end buyers, with the attractions including Chicago’s celebrated shopping district the Magnificent Mile...
...A police officer arrived to help, Gaines said, and “the last thing the officer said is: ‘You may wish to reconsider your purchase’”....
...Johnson has distanced himself from remarks he made calling police defunding a “political goal”, saying he wants to hire 200 detectives to solve more crimes and to address the underlying social problems that...
...In the collection of Francis O’Neill — an Irish immigrant who rose to be head of Chicago’s police force at the end of the 19th century, but also compiled 2,000 Irish folk tunes and songs — she found a two-part...
...A series of videos released by the Memphis Police Department on Friday evening showed Nichols being punched, kicked, struck with a baton and repeatedly pepper sprayed by a group of police officers....
...But worsening crime may be more perception than reality: the Chicago Police Department says transit crime in 2022 was down 43 per cent over 2019 — though ridership has fallen more....
...“What I saw on that video wasn’t policing,” Jason Armstrong, a police chief in North Carolina, told ABC on Sunday....
...Within days, a suspicious neighbour had reported them to the police....
...Republicans have sought to portray Democrats as “soft” on the issue, especially after calls by progressive activists to “defund” the police in big cities after the murder of George Floyd in 2020....
...Long-term parking concessions led to the City of Chicago paying investors $61mn for parking by disabled motorists and for street closures....
...The decision followed criticism of the city’s handling of a fatal police shooting of a black teenager in 2014....
...In May, a gunman opened fire outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Chicago’s Near North Side neighbourhood, killing two people and injuring seven....
...The shooter aimed from a rooftop in downtown Highland Park, a town on the “north shore” of Lake Michigan about 30 miles from Chicago’s central business district....
...Letter in response to this report: A question I had 30 years ago still seems relevant / From Gerald Kubasiak, Chicago, IL, US...
...police alleging that Crimo had said he was “going to kill everyone”....
...Those figures jumped to 4,081 and 696, respectively, the following year, and were up 8.45 per cent and 7.5 per cent year on year in 2021, according to an FT analysis of Chicago Police Department data....
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