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The City Council is poised to take up a $25 million settlement proposal in a controversial police misconduct case involving two men whose murder convictions were overturned in the slaying of a ...
In a high-profile rebuke of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city’s Law Department, aldermen narrowly rejected a $2 million police settlement Wednesday from a controversial case of alleged ...
“Well, I think the problem was, essentially, that somewhere in the City of Chicago someone wasn’t doing their job,” Casey Toner of Illinois Answers told WGN News. “Situations like this don ...
The Chicago Police Department's Homan Square facility is a former Sears, Roebuck and Company warehouse on the city's West Side.The facility houses the department's Evidence and Recovered Property Section.
The Shakman decrees were criticized by those who felt a politician or faction should be able to reward supporters with jobs. The first black mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington (1983–1987), complained that he could not replace any of the generally hostile city workforce with supporters. [6]
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]
Over the past five years, Chicago taxpayers have forked over nearly $400 million to resolve lawsuits stemming from officer misconduct, according to a new analysis of city data. While around 1,300 ...
McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), was a landmark [1] decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that found that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms", as protected under the Second Amendment, is incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment and is thereby enforceable against the states.