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Police with extremist ties are a clear and present danger to normal society and responsible law enforcement, a Hyde Park letter writer says.

“There’s nothing much we can do as an individual, but as the priest said, we can show by example and we can pray,” parishioner Keum-Lee Mayes said.

She marched with MLK and helped elect Mayor Harold Washington, and her views were forged as an activist with Students for a Democratic Society during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Ald. Michael Rodriguez (22nd), chairman of the City Council’s Committee on Workforce Development, said what’s standing in the way of an agreement is the requirement that employees who don’t take advantage of all of their paid leave days be “paid out” when they leave their jobs.

Chicago police Cmdr. Roderick Watson participated in a six-month international training program funded by billionaire Ken Griffin.

Temperatures broke records and climbed above 80 degrees, the Bears beat the Raiders at Soldier Field, and thousands of protesters took to downtown streets to call for a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.

Chicago police officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert at about 9:45 a.m. in the 200 block of West 95th Street.

One of the stars of the play now at Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse, he says of its audiences: “I hope they can take away a little bit of why immigrants come here to begin with and what is the beauty of America that still attracts people.”

The crash occurred just after 2 a.m. in the 1700 block of South Western Avenue, Chicago police said.

A month after Edward H. Gobbo got out of bankruptcy, Washington Federal Bank for Savings CEO John F. Gembara starting giving him loans of millions, records show. When the bank went bust, Gobbo or his immediate family owed more than $3.8 million on 27 residential loans, some of them years…

He entered politics as one of the youngest Chicago City Council members in history and became its most powerful and longest-serving member. Now, he’s fighting to avoid prison.