CPD Police Supt. Larry Snelling defends the department’s efforts to comply with the consent decree — which is now 5 years and 1.5 months old. “We will get there.” CPD has fully met just 6% of the court order’s requirements. CONTEXT: WTTW - Chicago PBS news.wttw.com/2024/03/04/5-y…

.The Civic Federation President Joe Ferguson called Mayor Brandon Johnson's complicated proposal to phase out the city’s decades-long reliance on tax increment financing districts “sensible” and “responsible.” WTTW - Chicago PBS news.wttw.com/2024/04/11/pro…

Mayor Johnson will ask the Chicago City Council to spend an additional $70M to house, feed and care for the men, women and children sent to Chicago from the southern border — an acknowledgment that more help is not coming from the federal government. WTTW - Chicago PBS
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After Mayor Brandon Johnson’s press conference with COPA and State’s Attorney Foxx about Dexter Reed, he did direct engagement with community members on the West Side—a different approach than previous administrations.

Tonia Hill with the exclusive: thetriibe.com/2024/04/mayor-…

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In a new motion today, federal prosecutors tell U.S. District Judge John Blakey they want to call former Chicago Ald. Michele Smith to testify in the trial of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan:

'turbulent controversy' is a weird way to say 'he was charged with murdering his wife and her friend'

The rules governing when — and how — officers can use deadly force against Chicagoans were crafted after decades of CPD scandals & now face new scrutiny after officers shot and killed Dexter Reed. I explain how they will shape the ongoing probes for WTTW - Chicago PBS. news.wttw.com/2024/04/10/whe…

Heather Cherone Chicago DCASE The bigger issue is that neither of our offices were contacted about the event. As I said during the hearing - the event supports a very worthy cause. But for it to be reported as a done-deal without the locally impacted stakeholders being engaged, is not ok.

Us:

I don’t necessarily oppose it, in fact had a recent death in the family from ALS. My concern was about DCASE’s involvement in an event that will affect residents of the 34th ward without coordination with my office
or Brendan Reilly’s office. Finding out that the organizers announced…

During Clinée Hedspeth's confirmation hearing as the commissioner of the Chicago DCASE, she tells City Council members that the city has yet to issue any permits for the proposed open swim in the river -- and it sounds like Alds. Reilly & Conway oppose it blockclubchicago.org/2024/04/03/swi…

BREAKING: 4 CPD officers shot at Dexter Reed 96 times in 41 seconds after Reed appears to have shot an officer in the arm after being pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt March 21, according to the agency charged with investigating CPD misconduct WTTW - Chicago PBS news.wttw.com/2024/04/09/4-c…

Mayor Brandon Johnson missed the deadline to nominate seven people to serve on a permanent board of Chicagoans that will oversee the Chicago Police Department as part of a new era of oversight for the beleaguered law enforcement agency. news.wttw.com/2024/04/08/joh…