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Mayor Lori Lightfoot had slammed the project before launching her first mayoral campaign, but did an about-face once in office, making the facility even bigger and more expensive.

With many alderpersons choosing not to run for reelection, decades of institutional knowledge will be lost when the new Council convenes.

Policing has long been a hot topic in Chicago

It’s not illegal to belong to these groups, which federal authorities have identified as plotting the Jan. 6 insurrection. But it is certainly not an “accomplishment” either, as one officer apparently bragged.

The city’s inspector general on Friday questioned the thoroughness of an internal investigation into the officer after it was reported that he was a member of the Oath Keepers.

Some 11 years since his arrest for the murder of Chicago Police Ofc. Clifton Lewis, a judge ruled Tyrone Clay will remain in jail awaiting a long-delayed trial.

City parks officials assured residents that if Promontory Point becomes a landmark after a City Council vote this spring, its historic limestone revetments will be preserved.

Police turn away people trying to register, leaving them at risk of arrest. Some crime victims say the system fails them too.

CHICAGO — Critics remain concerned by the Chicago Police Department’s impending relaunch of its much-criticized “gang database,” a tool intended to identify people with connections to street gangs, even after the process to revamp it was paused last fall at the behest of the city’s new police oversight committee.