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"The fact that so many people from all over our city applied to this pilot underscores the need for us to innovate and reimagine how we uplift people and their communities," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a statement.
Another day, another fight against a pot dispensary in someone's backyard.
It's usually given to teachers and others who work inside schools, so this was a first.
Tuesday's high temperatures will be the 60s with mostly cloudy skies by the afternoon.
"This is a generational opportunity which the city has been working towards for over 30 years," said Jennie Huang Bennett, the mayor's chief financial officer.
Experts with whom we spoke said ransomware attacks in general – including those on school districts and vendors – are skyrocketing.
The three-alarm inferno broke out Saturday afternoon.
The university is providing a $3 million grant to the city to fund installation of 110 new police surveillance cameras and license plate readers in the neighborhoods surrounding its South Side campus.
Weeks after a violent murder outside a West Side gas station, the gas station in question is back open.
"The guy that I got this sh** from told me to bring it here and dump it."
CBS 2's Tara Molina has been looking at how other cities are handling safety and security - specifically, the reporting of issues and concerns.
A Huntington Bank branch right downtown was robbed late Monday.
Metra said the driver of the truck was killed in the crash. A Metra passenger was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The woman was being held in jail late Monday and will be in court on Tuesday.
The City Council held a similar meeting last summer, when they spent hours grilling CPD Supt. David Brown about efforts to fight violent crime.
