Despite Reopening Efforts, Chicagoans Still Struggle To Get Work, Unemployment Benefits
"It's still difficult to get through and the websites don't work."
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"It's still difficult to get through and the websites don't work."
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday said a series of police reforms would be enacted within the next 90 days, as well as a $10 million fund to support small businesses that have been affected by looting in recent days.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot will deliver State of the City Address on Tuesday in the wake of unrest in Chicago.
"I'm going to say I understand how you are all feeling and there is a way we can resist constructively."
Protesters turned out in force in Lakeview and Uptown Monday evening, and the group said it wanted to stress peace.
Police Superintendent David Brown said part of the policing challenges Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning were due to orchestrated groups using strike and divert tactics.
The State of Illinois is calling up 250 additional National Guard members to assist in communities beyond Chicago amid unrest in the city.
"I think we are all adjusting and have learned there is a new normal."
An audit was conducted just last week – providing a sampling of how CTA cleaning crews clean Red and Blue line train cars.
The mayor said specific city services, including library and park districts, will reopen the following week on June 8.
While there is no language in the state budget that prohibits a pay raise, it does not provide any money to cover the cost of a pay raise.
Late Wednesday night, Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan called on everyone who attended the special session of the Illinois General Assembly last weekend to get tested for the coronavirus or go into a two-week quarantine.
The mayor is asking all Chicago graduating seniors to submit a "grad walk" video of their own graduation walk for a chance to appear in the virtual celebration. All seniors can upload their walk videos at the Chicago Grad 2020 website.
The district has been unable to contact more than 2,250 students since remote learning began, or less than 1% of the overall student body. Data is missing for 1.2% more students, or more than 3,500 kids.
James Mainer is challenging the governor's authority to extend his stay-at-home order beyond the first 30 days of his original disaster proclamation.
