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Antisemitic incidents and white supremacist propaganda doubled in Illinois last year, the watchdog group’s report shows. Statewide hate crimes have risen 80% since 2020, it continued.
Lee Zoldan remembers the 2017 attack on her downtown synagogue every time she walks in the building. “Those windows were broken. Nazi stickers were placed on those doors,” the Chicago Loop Synagogue president recalled Tuesday. “The windows were replaced. The stickers were removed. But the invisible scars remain.” Years later, the same hate and extremism that shook Zoldan’s congregation has ...
South Florida homeowners who are still trying to clean up after a record-setting flood can now apply for federal help to start their recovery.
With the unanimous endorsement of the City Council’s Health and Human Relations Committee, the full City Council is scheduled to consider the measure, backed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, at its meeting scheduled for Jan. 18.
The Chicago Commission on Human Relations is now empowered to “investigate and adjudicate complaints” of “discrimination and retaliation related to housing.” The ordinance