Oct 15 Chicago mayor takes police union head to court over vaccines By Don Babwin, Associated Press Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has taken her fight with the head of the city’s police officers union to court, arguing that his call for officers to ignore an order to report their COVID-19 vaccination status by Friday was illegal. Continue reading
Oct 07 WATCH: Biden champions vaccine mandates during visit to Chicago By Zeke Miller, Aamer Madhani, Associated Press President Joe Biden on Thursday championed COVID-19 vaccination requirements, determined that the roughly 67 million unvaccinated American adults must get the shot even as he acknowledged that mandates weren't his “first instinct.”… Continue reading
Sep 28 WATCH: After 5 years, Obamas break ground on Presidential Center in Chicago By Sophia Tareen, Associated Press Construction on the Obama Presidential Center along Lake Michigan, near the Obama family home and where the former president started his political career on Chicago's South Side, officially began last month. Continue reading
Jul 07 Watch 4:14 News Wrap: ‘Zero chance’ of finding the missing in Surfside alive, officials say In our news wrap Wednesday, officials said there was no chance of finding the people still missing in the Surfside rubble alive. Florida was spared major damage or any deaths from tropical storm Elsa. Three undercover police officers in Chicago… Continue watching
Jul 01 Monument unveiled to activist, journalist Ida B. Wells in Chicago By Associated Press Officially called The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument, the commemoration created by sculptor Richard Hunt was dedicated Wednesday in the Bronzeville neighborhood where Wells lived out her life. Continue reading
May 03 Groups say gunshot detection systems unreliable, seek review By Don Babwin, Sara Burnett, Associated Press The gunshot detection system that set in motion the recent fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old boy in Chicago routinely reports gunshots where there are none, sending officers into predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods for “unnecessary and hostile” encounters, community… Continue reading
Apr 20 Watch 4:08 News Wrap: Democrats block effort to censure Maxine Waters for Chauvin trial comments In our news wrap Tuesday, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives blocked a vote on censuring congresswoman Maxine Waters. Latino lawyers and community leaders in Chicago called for a federal investigation of the police shooting of Adam Toledo. The… Continue watching
Apr 16 Chicago police critics call for charges in shooting of boy By Sara Burnett, Michael Tarm, Associated Press Viewers reacted with a mix of outrage and grief to newly released bodycam video that shows a Chicago police officer fatally shoot a 13-year-old less than a second after the boy dropped a handgun, turned toward the officer and began… Continue reading
Apr 16 Watch 7:10 Chicago sees massive protests after police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo By Stephanie Sy, Mike Fritz, Maea Lenei Buhre Questions over the fatal shooting and the role of the police in the death of a teen are front and center in Chicago. There, the mayor, city officials and community leaders are taking stock of how police respond with force,… Continue watching
Apr 15 Video shows Chicago teen wasn’t holding a gun when shot by cop By Don Babwin, Sara Burnett, Associated Press Disturbing bodycam video shows a 13-year-old boy appearing to drop a handgun and begin raising his hands less than a second before an officer shoots and kills him. Continue reading