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‘Disgusting’, ‘garbage’: Chicago Democrat faces fury for ‘wrong place at wrong time’ remarks on Sheridan Gorman killing

A Chicago alderwoman's remarks about a murdered Loyola student, Sheridan Gorman, being in the "wrong place at the wrong time" have sparked outrage. Critics accuse her of victim-blaming, especially after police reports indicated the killer stalked the 18-year-old. The suspect, an undocumented Venezuelan migrant, has been arrested.

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‘The Hollywood of politics’: Chicago in spotlight as Democrats roll into town

Thousands of delegates will descend upon a city struggling to reinvent its politics after decades of control by the Democratic machine

The Guardian - US

India’s Hindu nationalism is also an American problem

Hindu nationalist organizations are working to import their bigoted ideology into this diverse city, and Chicagoans cannot remain in the dark, the head of the Indian American Muslim Council writes.

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‘Bring Chicago Home’ referendum to reduce homelessness through tax on high-end property sales clears City Council

Tuesday’s 32-17 vote is a major political victory for Mayor Brandon Johnson. Next comes a battle between Johnson’s progressive coalition and the business community and real estate industry.

Chicago Sun-Times

South and West Siders plead for law to end pollution ‘sacrifice zones’

City Council members hear from public before a major environmental impact ordinance is introduced this year.

Chicago Sun-Times

New audit by inspector general lauds city outreach to homeless encampments

The city has periodically been criticized for hosing down and clearing homeless encampments without giving sufficient notice or trying to preserve personal items. An audit by the city’s watchdog found just the opposite.

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Migrants who slept in tents after being kicked out of shelter have found a new home

Eight members of the Leon and Castro families had lived outdoors since being locked out of a shelter Saturday. The city has moved them to the Inn of Chicago in Streeterville.

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Migrant families say Rogers Park motel kicked them out after missing curfew by 7 minutes: ‘We don’t have anywhere to go’

One woman who had been asked to leave said the families had nowhere else to go, but the local alderperson said they had been offered an alternative place to stay for the night.

Chicago Sun-Times

In some city wards, residents vote on how tax money is spent. Should all Chicagoans get a seat at the budget table?

So-called participatory budgeting, in which residents vote on spending projects in their wards, started in the United States in Chicago, but its growth has stalled.

Chicago Sun-Times

Church leaders call for faithful across city to shelter, support migrants living in police stations

City’s church leaders say they’ve developed a model for helping migrants and urged people to sign up online to take part in the mission.

Chicago Sun-Times

Migrants at Navy Pier or McCormick Place? Alderperson says central facility better than neighborhoods for asylum-seekers

Stop “playing whack-a-mole” and disrupting neighborhoods, Ald. Maria Hadden told the Sun-Times. “We need central locations. We need large spaces,” such as McCormick Place, Navy Pier or shuttered big-box stores.

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Chicago out of money, space and time to handle migrant crisis, City Council told

With no money from the federal government for 2023 costs and a $53 million shortfall to meet the surge through June, Budget Director Susie Park said the City Council will soon be asked to approve a midyear budget amendment.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot makes environmental concession, but critics still not satisfied

The mayor is proposing to beef up the Office of Climate and Environmental Equity — from six employees to 10 — and take it out of the mayor’s office, placing it under a director who would be confirmed by the City Council.

Chicago Sun-Times

Clouted owner of senior home fined $1,500 after 3 residents died during hot spell as heat was left running inside their building

Newly released autopsy results show the primary cause of death for all three women was “environmental heat exposure due to hot residential building during heat-related weather event.”

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Climate change is turning air conditioning into a matter of life and death. But government help is lacking

CHICAGO — If it were up to Jacques Wallace, no Chicagoan would find a loved one dead of heat stress, without air conditioning, ever again.

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to sue gang members and seize their property falters amid criticism over crime and civil rights

CHICAGO — Days before aldermen were set to vote on Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s controversial plan to sue gang members as an anti-violence strategy, she texted an impassioned message to several City Council members seeking their support.

Chicago Tribune

Monkeypox concern grows as virus spreads in Chicago: ‘They need to get loud about this’

CHICAGO — Chicago public health officials reported 173 monkeypox cases on Monday — up from 105 last week — and with vaccines scarce and hard to find, alarm is growing among doctors and those in the gay community that the city is not doing enough to address the spread.

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May heat wave deaths prompt new cooling rules in Chicago

The Chicago City Council has passed new cooling requirements for residential buildings after three women died in their stifling hot apartments during a brief heat wave last month

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Committee OKs new cooling requirements on high-rise, senior buildings to prevent repeat of heat-related deaths in Rogers Park

The ordinance, backed by Ald. Maria Hadden, is aimed at preventing a repeat of the tragedy at James Sneider Apartments, where three residents died in mid-May.

The Guardian - US

Deaths of three Chicago women prompt urgent heat warnings

Experts say cities are failing to grapple with the deadly threat after discovery of bodies in senior housing facility

The Independent UK

Deaths of 3 women in early heat wave raise questions, fears

The discovery of the bodies of three women inside a Chicago senior housing facility after a brief heat wave this month raises questions about whether officials and residents are prepared for the kind of brutal heat that killed more than 700 people in the city nearly three decades ago

Chicago Sun-Times

Proposed ordinance would give building owners flexibility on AC

A manager of the building where three women died during a stretch of warm temperatures said city rules required them to provide heat through June 1. “Nobody is going to freeze to death in Chicago in May,” said Ald. Brian Hopkins, who introduced an ordinance to ease that requirement.

Chicago Sun-Times

City should move quickly on new rules after possible heat-related deaths of three seniors

One step would be to adjust the deadline in the city’s heating ordinance to a date earlier than June 1.

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‘Like an oven’: Heat in woman’s unit was intolerable, son says after mom dies in Rogers Park senior home

Janice Reed, 68, was among three women found unresponsive Saturday at the James Sneider Apartments, 7450 N. Rogers Ave. Gwendolyn Osborne, 72, and Delores McNeely, 76, also died.

Chicago Tribune

Mayor Lori Lightfoot again says Christopher Columbus statue will return to Grant Park. But almost 2 years after its removal, will it?

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s long-delayed review of Chicago monuments still isn’t completed, but the mayor has restated her controversial pledge to return a Christopher Columbus statue to its prominent pedestal in Grant Park — the site of a bloody battle between police and demonstrators nearly two years ago.

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