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Facing an unprecedented $1.2 billion shortfall for next year, Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday proposed a $94 million property tax hike, a 3 cents per gallon increase in the city's gas tax, hundreds of layoffs, and eliminating nearly 2,000 vacant positions.
In Mayor Lori Lightfoot's budget proposal calls for the Chicago Police Department to cut a big chunk of its own budget.
With no financial help on the horizon from Congress or the state, the mayor said the city must rely on making "shared sacrifices" to address the economic crisis created by the pandemic.
A Joliet police sergeant who went public with allegations of police misconduct in the death of a suspect has been arrested, CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini has learned
Around 2:45 p.m., police reported Ivy had been found safe an unharmed. The circumstances surrounding her disappearance remain under investigation.
The call for Schapiro's ouster comes after he lashed out at protesters who vandalized local businesses and lit fires this past weekend as they demanded the abolishment of the Northwestern University Police Department.
The statewide seven-day average positivity rate at 5.7% is the highest it's been since June 5, when the rate was 6%.
In DuPage County, the health department recommends remote learning. However, officials are impressed with schools that have been able to stay open, even as COVID cases are rising.
The project began last Friday, and is scheduled to be finished by Thursday.
A small plane crashed along Route 394 in the south suburbs Tuesday afternoon.
Chicago police are investigating three separate incidents where people were shot with paintball guns within a few hours.
House Democrats and the Trump administration agreeing on stimulus terms isn't even the biggest obstacle to a stimulus package.
Police said a 44-year-old man was walking near the Clark/Division stop around 6:10 a.m., when two men approached him from behind, shoved him to the ground, and punched him several times in the face.
A man who sent hours dangling from a landing on Trump Tower in a standoff with police earlier this week escaped from an ambulance downtown Tuesday night.
Video we showed Monday night at 10 p.m. showed children 10 and younger vandalizing a building for seniors in the West Pullman neighborhood and leaving them terrorized. It turns out a mother was watching in disbelief.
