Dozens have filed petitions to run for the newly created councils.
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ShotSpotter held in contempt of court
Rather than release documents, a ShotSpotter attorney requested the contempt order.
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‘All I feel is loss’
After nearly two years on electronic monitoring, Jeremey “Mohawk” Johnson’s ankle bracelet is finally off.
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CPD requested thousands of vaccine exemptions
Nearly half of Chicago police employees applied for exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine.
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The elephant in the room
Notes from a recent public safety meeting in Pilsen that turned contentious.
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New body-cam images show CPD attack on Miracle Boyd
Officer Nicholas Jovanovich knocked out the activist’s tooth and seized her cell phone.
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After 34 years, a murder conviction quietly reversed in four minutes
James Allen still has two murder cases keeping him in prison.
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Brutal and beautiful summer
Three stories from the front lines of the 2020 protests, when the bridges went up and the statues came down
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Politics of fear: Are youth really to blame for the carjacking spike?
Cops say masked teens with a thirst for violence and joyrides are terrorizing the city. An examination of arrests reveals a narrative built on shoddy data and anecdotal evidence.
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On house arrest with Mohawk Johnson
CPD has tried to turn rapper and comedian Mohawk Johnson into a cautionary example to social justice protesters. He has other plans.
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The murder Chicago didn’t want to solve
In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Clues suggest the murder was a professional hit. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.
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The COVID-canceled sports league that still made the streets unsafe
Members of the Chicago Police Enforcers football team have been involved in more than 200 incidents where they’ve injured civilians through use of force.
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‘We just want to go home’
CPD’s violent response to a student-led protest downtown and what it says about this moment in our history
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That lockout you witnessed? It didn’t happen.
Ex-cops attempted to throw out a Rogers Park tenant at gunpoint. The police report tells a different story.