The Latest Breaking News from David Brown

The mayor and other city officials have attributed this year’s downtick in violence to an initiative that has flooded 15 communities with new resources. Crime experts say that’s premature.

A prisoner advocacy group is heading the Supreme Court in a bid to overturn a decision by SA jail authorities to disallow inmates its election newspaper.

CHICAGO — Over a 48-hour period two weekends ago, three shootings erupted within a mile of one another in Chicago’s downtown area, leaving two people dead. During that same time, some 17 other people were shot around the city, most of them in neighborhoods where a higher level of violence…

Lawyers will file proceedings against the South Australian corrections department in the Supreme Court on Friday morning.

Just because Ald. Walter Burnett is willing to put up with the inconvenience of a casino doesn’t mean Mayor Lori Lightfoot will easily round up the other 25 City Council votes she needs to ratify Bally’s River West site.

In one of the attacks, four people were wounded when two gunmen opened fire on an SUV stopped at a light in the Loop.

A blue Dodge Durango was stopped in the 400 block of South Wells Street when the gunmen fired from a sidewalk around 1:35 a.m. Tuesday, according to police.

Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said the department will add officers to downtown, targeted neighborhoods where crime has been “displaced.”

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday said she’s “not happy about this weekend” after a spate of shootings in the area, noting that city officials need to “step up our efforts downtown.”

CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday that she was “not happy” about violence that again touched downtown Chicago over the weekend and ended with a cancellation of Sunday night’s performance of the play "Moulin Rouge."

“If she has 71 security officers around her house, why can’t she protect the citizens that get robbed and things of that nature on the CTA?” asked mayoral candidate Willie Wilson, who rode the Red Line downtown from 95th Street Monday morning.