Proposed rewrite of Chicago's hate crime ordinance would create additional category of 'hate incidents'
Chicago hate crimes have spiked to levels not seen in decades.
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Chicago hate crimes have spiked to levels not seen in decades.
Ald. Ronnie Mosley (21st) will hold a meeting about a potential site at 115th and Halsted on Wednesday evening.
Two men who served a combined 34 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of the 1993 murder of a college basketball star will divide $25 million, thanks to a settlement advanced Monday by a City Council committee.
The ordinance Ald. Debra Silverstein plans to introduce would create the category of a non-criminal “hate incident,” which Chicagoans could report either by calling the city’s 311 non-emergency number or by using the 311 app.
Chicago’s burgeoning migrant crisis will have cost taxpayers more than a quarter of a billion dollars by Dec. 31, Mayor Brandon Johnson told City Council members Friday.