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While many Americans will get to enjoy a four-day weekend because of the Thanksgiving holiday, your friendly neighborhood mail carrier won’t quite get as many days off. Thanksgiving is one of 11 holidays where mail service is halted in the United States, with postal facilities closed and mail delivery stopped for the day on Thursday. […]
The Chicago City Council approved Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $16.6 billion 2023 spending plan on Wednesday after a debate shaped by an intense focus on the amount of money the city expects to spend on housing, feeding and caring for the men, women and children sent to Chicago from the southern border. The budget, which takes […]
Hundreds of Jewish peace activists and their allies converged at a major train station in downtown Chicago during rush hour, blocking the entrance to the Israeli consulate and demanding US support for an Israel ceasefire as battles rage in northern Gaza. Midwestern Jews and allies traveled to Chicago from Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin […]
Chicago City Hall. (Michael Izquierdo / WTTW News) Nearly three and a half years ago, Chicago officials — spurred in part by the demands for racial justice that swept the nation in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis — promised to study whether and how the city should pay reparations […]
Source: Martine Severin / Getty Mass shootings tend to dominate the debate over gun violence – but they accounted for just 3% of all firearm homicides in the United States in 2021. The vast majority of gun homicides are murders that happen in an extremely concentrated number of neighborhoods – places where the rate of […]
More than 3,300 wrongfully convicted people have been exonerated in the U.S. since 1989. That’s according to the University of Michigan’s National Registry of Exonerations. And that time on the inside adds up to more than 30,000 years unjustly spent in prison for many of those people. A significant number of those years were spent […]
An investigation by WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project found some have troubling backgrounds that include allegations of excessive force, improper searches and racist comments on the job. At least nine of them remain on the police force, even after newly elected Mayor Brandon Johnson vowed to rid the […]
The adage “We’re a nation of immigrants” rings hollow for many Black Americans. For those of us descended from enslaved people, the sentiment feels like erasure of our ancestors who forcibly labored on plantations. Immigration is foundational to the U.S., yes. So was slavery. But that fact doesn’t justify anti-immigrant behavior, which is rising as […]
Migrants outside a Chicago police station. (WTTW News) City officials are considering building a massive tent to house the more than 3,500 migrants now living at police stations and O’Hare International Airport on a vacant, privately-owned lot in Brighton Park, Ald. Julia Ramirez (12th Ward) said Sunday. In a statement posted to her official social […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing to ban certain hair-straightening products, such as chemical relaxers and pressing products, that have been linked to health risks. (Adobe Stock) (CNN) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing to ban certain hair-straightening products, such as chemical relaxers and pressing products, that have been linked to […]