Progressive elected officials and community organizations are backing the chief of staff to former state Sen. Cristina Pacione-Zayas, who resigned to join the Johnson administration.
While the process carries on, the city’s most intractable public safety issue gun violence continues to dog city leaders and underscore the importance of the new mayor's choice.
Supt. David Brown said he is moving some officers from desks to the streets to make as many cops as possible visible in the neighborhoods, on the CTA and even on the water.
"For them to walk out on us – it shows that they don't care about us either," said Angela Gregg, who lost her 4-year-old son to gun violence.
Angela Gregg is searching for answers in the unsolved murder of her 4-year-old son after he was shot and killed in Chicago over Labor Day weekend in 2021.