Page 3 - Edwin Benn News Today

The Chicago City Council followed Mayor Brandon Johnson’s lead in rejecting a provision Wednesday to allow Chicago police officers accused of serious misconduct to have their disciplinary cases heard behind closed doors, while approving Police Department pay raises and other contract provisions. Wednesday’s 33-17 vote nixes a major part of the deal between the union representing cops and ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson was forced to call for a recess after public observers gathered in the third-floor gallery overlooking the City Council chambers banged on the glass and shouted from their seats.

Plus: Plans for Thompson Center makeover, how the Chinatown Gateway became a Chicago icon and more.

The Chicago City Council followed Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson in rejecting changes backed by the city’s largest police union to decide serious police discipline cases behind closed doors.

Leaders from three of the city’s public safety agencies gathered at Truman College in the Uptown neighborhood Monday night to lay out their high-level goals for the coming year. But the presentations from the heads of the Chicago Police Department, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability and the Chicago Police Board were delivered as the future of one of those bodies, the police board, is ...

A City Council committee on Thursday delivered a symbolic but temporary message underscoring its commitment to police reform and accountability.

The arbitrator’s ruling would allow CPD officers accused of the most serious wrongdoing to bypass the Police Board, taking their cases to an arbitrator who might be more sympathetic — and whose proceedings are held in private.

In a move that could lead to his first labor dispute since taking office, Mayor Brandon Johnson will seek to split up a proposed new contract with the Chicago police union into two City Council votes, an unusual bid to quash a ruling allowing private disciplinary hearings for officers. The move — which the mayor’s office did not detail last week when touting the new agreement with the Chicago ...

City Council urged to reject arbitrator’s ruling that would shield the most serious disciplinary cases from public view.

The ruling prompted rebuke from FOP President John Catanzara, who said the union is “going to encourage these officers and maybe even assist them in suing the city, the police board and everybody.”