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A police officer talks with residents while working the scene of fatal shooting in which two people were killed and three others wounded in the 7100 block of South Woodlawn Avenue, July 4, 2024, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

2 women dead, 3 children hospitalized after Grand Crossing shooting

July 4, 2024 at 6:21 p.m.

Chicago police said officers responded to calls of shots fired in the 7100 Block of South Woodlawn on Thursday around 6:15 a.m., where they found five victims with gunshot wounds.

Mayor Brandon Johnson answers questions May 6, 2024 at the Thompson Center. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Chicago pension debt climbs to $37.2 billion

July 3, 2024 at 6:16 p.m.

Mayor Johnson has made taming the debt more difficult, tying his own hands with a pledge not to raise property taxes, one of the chief revenue sources the city relies...

Patricia Harris behind her home on June 26, 2024, in Phoenix, Illinois. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Big Cook County property tax hikes coming for many in south suburbs

June 27, 2024 at 11:12 a.m.

A new analysis from the Cook County Treasurer’s Office found median tax bills countywide are rising by 19.9% compared to last year, the largest jump in the last 29 years.

Cook County Board Commissioner Dennis Deer, 2nd District, is first in line to file his reelection petitions at Cook County Administration Building on Nov. 27, 2017. Deer died Sunday, according to a family statement. (José M. Osorio/baiduhai)

Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer dies at 51, family says

June 24, 2024 at 4:59 p.m.

A Cook County board member from the West Side, Dennis Deer last summer successfully underwent a rare flipped-organ double lung transplant.

Ald. Scott Waguespack, 32nd, right, speaks to Ald. Chris Taliaferro, 29th, before a Chicago City Council meeting at City Hall on April 17, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Sterling Bay Lincoln Park housing project advances, despite alderman’s opposition

June 21, 2024 at 10:01 a.m.

The Chicago Planning Commission, dominated by Johnson appointees, voted 11-1 to recommend a 615-unit Lincoln Park housing complex near the stalled Lincoln Yards megadevelopment.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle at a meeting of the Cook County Board of Commissioners in Chicago on May 20, 2024. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Cook County unveils $218 million budget gap for 2025

June 19, 2024 at 3:01 p.m.

Toni Preckwinkle's finance team said it's too early to say how that gap will be closed, but also projected the county is on track to end 2024 with a surplus...

A worker cleans up trash at Garfield Park in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood on April 24, 2020. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

City orders audit after pay mix-up for hundreds of laborers

June 19, 2024 at 3:03 p.m.

The issue sprung up in January when workers represented by LiUNA Local 1001 discovered miscalculations in paychecks covering back pay. The union recently went public about the "fiasco."

Newly appointed as Cook County's independent inspector general, Tirrell Paxton listens to commissioners speak following his appointment during a Cook County Board meeting on June 12, 2024. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

County appoints insider as new inspector general

June 14, 2024 at 10:38 a.m.

Tirrell Paxton said he would prioritize identifying waste and mismanagement, compliance with political hiring guidelines under the Shakman decree and allegations of discrimination and sexual harassment.

John Catanzara, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, arrives before the funeral for Chicago police Officer Luis Huesca on April 29, 2024, at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

City demands thousands of Chicago police officers pay off pension error

June 10, 2024 at 6:26 p.m.

The Fraternal Order of Police said it planned on filing a grievance over the error so that the city would have to pay that interest charge instead of workers.

Police officers run in formation as the Chicago Police Department offers a first look at officer training at McCormick Place on June 6, 2024, in preparation for the Democratic National Convention in August. The officers at the training session are among the 2,500 officers who will be on the front lines during the DNC. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

‘This will not be 1968.’ Chicago police prepare for DNC as whole world watches once again.

June 10, 2024 at 6:17 a.m.

The landscape has changed and CPD isn't the same police force as it was in 1968. But questions remain as protesters will arrive in Chicago this August for the Democratic...

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