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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.

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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 ...