A #Chicago #cop who fatally shot his patrol partner (and has since been stripped of police powers after allegedly attacking a female cop at a North Side bar) is offering his version of what happened at the bar:. He’s the victim. @ctoner @IllinoisAnswers.

BREAKING: About four dozen protesters have found the unannounced suburban Chicago site where U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is planned for a news conference on “worst-of-the-worst criminal illegal aliens.” ⁦@WBEZ⁩

RT @WBEZ: Trump's executive order, "ending crime and disorder on America’s streets," redirects harm-reduction funds to states and cities fo….

RT @Suntimes: The government shifts its policy toward the unhoused from effective solutions to more fear-based cleansing, Neil Steinberg wr….

ICYMI: #Trump is attacking “#housing first” and “harm reduction” strategies for #homeless and #addicted people, making it easier to remove tent encampments from sight and forcefully institutionalize people. @mary_norkol @Ashlee_Rezin @WBEZ @Suntimes

Billed as “ending crime and disorder on America’s streets,” #Trump attacks “#housing first” and “harm reduction,” and makes it easier to remove tent encampments and institutionalize #homeless and #addicted folks. @mary_norkol @Ashlee_Rezin @WBEZ @Suntimes

Severe hunger has gripped #Gaza, where growing numbers of people are starving and the doctors treating them are working on empty stomachs. #Israel #Biden #Trump.

Cook County top prosecutor Eileen O’Neill Burke stops maintaining lists of discredited #police officers, @MaxBlaisdell1 reports. @samstecklow @chicago_reader @invinst.

Chicago could face a bill in the hundreds of millions of dollars for #police overtime in a long-running case involving 8,500 current and ex-#CPD employees, @dmihalopoulos reports. A former union lawyer says settling early would have cost just $14 million.

RT @Suntimes: In a key development for a Chicago man seeking a new trial after more than 30 years in prison, a Cook County judge will allow….

RT @WBEZ: A Cook County judge will allow a Mauritanian-born writer and terrorism suspect to testify at a hearing that will determine whethe….

RT @SeidelContent: Ex-Gitmo detainee will be allowed to testify about alleged torture by former Chicago detective. Reporting by @ChipMitc….

A Cook County judge will allow a Mauritanian-born writer and #terrorism suspect to testify at a hearing that will determine whether a #Chicago man imprisoned more than three decades for an infamous North Side murder will get a new trial, @WBEZ reports.

RT @WBEZ: Chicago police traffic stops plummeted last year, but the drop varied wildly across the city and sharp racial disparities persist….

RT @GilbertBailon: Report shows big drop in Chicago police traffic stops, but sharp racial disparities persist @Chi….

#Chicago #police traffic stops plummeted last year, but the drop varied wildly across the city and sharp racial disparities persisted, a @WBEZ analysis of #Illinois Department of Transportation data has found. #CPD #twill .

Alberto Rojas, the #California bishop letting his flock skip Sunday masses due to fear of #ICEraids, was an @ArchChicago auxiliary bishop from 2011 to 2019. He worked closely with @CardinalBCupich and, several times, met Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, who is now Pope Leo XIV.

Officials under @ChicagosMayor keep #CPD “merit” promotion lists secret despite @Chicago_Police promises to release them and despite an Obama-era @TheJusticeDept report condemning the promotions. @racheyy_marie @samstecklow @invinst @Chicago_Reader .

RT @MissSassbox: everytime I thought I was impressed, I was sadly mistaken and even MORE impressed. boss lady on the foundation is EVERYTHI….

Organizers of banned #Budapest #Pride were engulfed in a wave of public support so massive that some commentators are calling it a political turning point, potentially weakening #Orban and his self-proclaimed “illiberal” Christian authoritarianism.