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Chicago’s top cop fired reformer even after getting heat from federal monitor

At a meeting with the monitor tracking compliance with court-ordered reforms, Supt. David Brown struggled to explain how he would meet a key deadline while deeply cutting staff that was implementing those changes.

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Newest mayoral challenger vows to tackle issue of allocating police to neighborhoods most in need

A University of Chicago Crime Lab model offered a way to assign officers, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Police Supt. David Brown chose a more timid approach. Ald. Sophia King said if elected mayor, she’ll act more boldly.

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CTA boss Dorval Carter Jr. unveils plan to fix reliability, safety concerns

“The pandemic changed everything. How we live, how we work and — most notably for public transit agencies — how we get around,” CTA President Dorval Carter Jr. said in a speech at City Club of Chicago Thursday

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New state standards on sex education are inappropriate for our children

Parents are asking how schools can justify teaching a radical sex education curriculum when so many of our students are not meeting basic standards of learning in core subjects.

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Whitney Young’s new principal, Chicago’s favorite places to thrift and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Bally’s play for long-awaited Chicago casino now up to state regulators — but hopes to open temporary site next year face long odds

Bally’s has filed its application with the Illinois Gaming Board seeking approval for a $1.7 billion riverfront casino-resort. The city is hoping a temporary casino can open by next summer. But the board has up to a year to review the application, with the possibility of an extension beyond that.

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Girls learn basics of national security

National security professionals hope a 4-day career development program will yield a new cadre of recruits.

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Larry Cose dies at 68; former Sun-Times reporter, financial adviser’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis led to creation of nonprofit to help younger patients with the disease

“You talked to him for even a few minutes [and] you had nothing but warmth toward him,” said his brother, journalist Ellis Cose, an author and former Sun-Times columnist.

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Family files lawsuit as Pilsen mom remains on life support after I-55 road-rage shooting involving off-duty Chicago cop

Lizbeth Urbina is a single mother of two daughters, ages 1 and 3, and works at a shoe store in Little Village. “People love her in the neighborhood,” Baltazar Enrique said. “This is one of our children. She’s one of our family.”

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Bears Kicker Trained on Lousy Field to Prepare for Soldier Field

Cairo Santos sought poor conditions in order to be ready for the inconsistent surface at Chicago’s stadium.

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Bears’ N’Keal Harry set for surgery

His injury leaves the Bears perilously thin at receiver — a problem when trying to determine what quarterback Justin Fields can show during training camp and preseason games.

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High school football preview: No. 10 Kankakee

Steven Young took Kankakee’s loss to Fenwick in last season’s Class 5A state title game hard.

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Whitney Young H.S. selects new principal, only its 4th in 47 years, to replace retiring Joyce Kenner

Assistant Principal Rickey Harris takes over the prestigious Near West Side school. Harris has served two stints at Whitney Young, his first from 2006 to 2010 as the school’s dean of students before returning in 2020.

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Firing of city’s police reform chief is step in the wrong direction

The police department already has been criticized for boasting about minor progress rather than staying on track to meet deadlines.

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Selling icy desserts offers life lessons to some, life raft to others

The bottom line for some local street vendors is to keep money coming in. “This is my way of staying above water,” one seller said.

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67-year-old man found dead in Rogers Park was killed in assault: Autopsy

Vincente Antunez was found dead at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 7300 block of North Rogers Avenue, according to Chicago police.

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Protesters demand justice for the ‘comfort women’ of World War II on Global Action Day

Protesters took turns sitting with a replica of the “Statue of Peace” — or “Sonyeosang” in Korean — an artwork installed in 2011 outside the the Embassy of Japan in Seoul, South Korea, as a monument to the women.

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Residents in Little Village, Lawndale push for Riot Fest to leave Douglass Park

After a heated community meeting, neighborhood groups are calling for artists to drop out of the weekend music festival as they continue to push for changes to how the West Side park is used.

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Pritzker: Bailey owes apology to Holocaust survivors for ‘offensive’ comparison to abortion

Pritzker also called on more Republicans to speak out against the comments. “Why can’t Republicans just stand up and say what Darren Bailey said was wrong?” Pritzker asked. “Why can’t they do that?”

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Firing of CPD reform chief won’t slow compliance with federal consent decree: Lightfoot

Robert Boik was fired in apparent retaliation for an email he sent criticizing Brown’s decision to move 46 officers under Boik’s supervision to the Bureau of Patrol as part of a larger reorganization.

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Ald. Sophia King joins mayoral race, Virtue chef Damarr Brown dishes on his career and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Justin Jones feeling at home in Bears’ defense

The former Chargers defensive lineman, who signed with the Bears only after Larry Ogunjobi failed a physical, has acclimated quickly as a 3-technique tackle. ”That’s a position I feel like I was born to play,” he said.

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Lightfoot: Latest challenger’s call for top cop’s ouster ‘astounding,’ progress on crime is ‘remarkable’

The mayor expressed “total confidence” in CPD Supt. David Brown and said mayoral challenger Ald. Sophia King and others calling for Brown’s removal sound like people who “don’t know anything about public safety.”

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City’s budget forecast includes $42.7 million increase in property taxes

The proposed increase would cost the owner of a home valued at $250,000 just $34 more a year, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said, “about the price of an Al’s Italian beef — hot, dipped, with extra cheese — for a family of four.”

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High school football preview: The top 10 defensive players

The state’s only consensus five-star prospect and six Big Ten recruits are among the area’s top 10 defensive players for 2022.

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