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The CTA plans to better align service with available workforce, a tricky task considering the transit agency is short 600 bus drivers.

CHICAGO — After a two-year spike during the pandemic and national outrage over police accountability, Chicago has begun to see a decline in homicides, as the Chicago Police Department works to correct crime trends to levels before the coronavirus and turmoil over the killing of George Floyd took hold.

Here’s an issue-by-issue report card for 2022 on some of the topics examined over the year by the Editorial Board.

CHICAGO — The rate of violent crime on CTA trains began to drop this year for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic emptied public transit of many riders, but it remains near the highest levels seen in the past decade — and more than twice as high as the…

The Chicago area remained under a winter weather warning, with high winds kicking up snow and driving down temperatures. The official reading at O’Hare overnight was minus 8. Wind chills as low as minus 40 were recorded.

Lamar Taylor has served 22 months while awaiting trial and is likely to be released soon.

The employee was working on a platform below the tracks when he fell to a parking lot underneath.

The man, 40, was in fair condition with gunshot wounds to the leg and buttocks, police said.