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“Let’s not take steps back,” Ald. Julia Ramirez (12th) told reporters Thursday. “Let’s keep working together to make sure that cops are held accountable.”

The 21-year-old mother of two was charged with resisting arrest and obstructing traffic. The case highlights the challenges of using police stations as temporary shelters.

MEX talks, put on by Chicago nonprofit Latinos Progresando, is a celebration of Mexican identity and culture at Harris Theater.

When more than 320,000 Chicago youths resumed classes Monday, the sense of renewal brought by a fresh school year was underscored by the presence of Chicago’s new mayor, a former teacher who welcomed students and offered encouraging words at several stops around the district. Yet the change at City Hall is also the beginning of a period of transition in Chicago Public Schools as it moves to an ...

The tone was notably friendlier than the one set four years ago by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who blasted aldermanic corruption.

On Thursday, June 22nd, WHITE WAVE Dance celebrates their 22nd Anniversary season of the DUMBO Dance Festival with a GALA Opening that heralds the most anticipated four-day festival of contemporary dance in the greater New York City region.

Last year will be remembered by many City Hall observers for the wave of incumbents who announced they’d give up their City Council seats — but this year has proven a record-breaking one for members being able to hold onto theirs.

The solitary defeat of appointed Ald. Anabel Abarca (12th) marks the fewest defeated incumbents since Chicago instituted the 50-member City Council system in 1923. Seven sitting members were knocked out in each of the previous two election cycles.

The victory of community organizer Ronnie Mosley, 31, was secured on Monday with the concession of retired firefighter Cornell Dantzler, who concluded the ballots that could still arrive in the mail would not be enough to erase Mosley’s lead.

More Chicago election results by ward have come in. Cornell Dantzler conceded to Ronnie Mosley in the 21st Ward.