Chicago News
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OCT 10, 2019
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OCT 10, 2019
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This still image taken from police dash camera video, eventually released by the city in November 2015, shows Chicago teen Laquan McDonald just prior to being shot by Officer Jason Van Dyke on Oct. 20, 2014. (Chicago Police Department)
Flexing new powers championed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot and approved by the Chicago City Council, city officials Wednesday released new details about the investigation into former Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, who murdered 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, and 15 officers accused of covering up the shooting.
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OCT 10, 2019
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s pick to lead the Chicago Department of Planning and Development is scheduled to face public questions from aldermen for the first time during a meeting of the City Council’s Committee on Economic, Technology and Capital Development on Thursday.
Maurice Cox. [Submitted]
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An investigation by the city’s watchdog found that vehicles with placards issued by the Chicago Police Department parked illegally near City Hall and blocked fire lanes, posing a safety hazard in “blatant disregard” of rules.
The alley at 140 W. Court Place, where Chicago Police officials parked illegally near City Hall, according to Inspector General Joseph Ferguson. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
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Nearly two years after Argyle Street in Uptown became Chicago’s first shared roadway for cyclists, motorists and pedestrians, aldermen will weigh a measure to make the experiment permanent.
Shared street sign at the corner of Argyle Street and Sheridan Road. [DNAinfo/Josh McGhee]
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OCT 09, 2019
Metra will use its $1.45 billion share of the mammoth capital plan passed in Springfield this year to order hundreds of new train cars, update transit stations and replace rail bridges along the system’s 500-mile network, agency leaders announced Tuesday.
The Metra Electric and South Shore lines. [Airbus777/Flickr]
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The Cook County Assessor’s office has made “modest” progress on a court-ordered overhaul of its hiring practices, but staffers need to take the policy changes more seriously before the office can be free of its 7-year-old federal monitor, according to a legal filing from a government watchdog.
Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi. [A.D. Quit/The Daily Line]
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The Illinois State Police is working to clear the DNA testing backlog at Illinois’ crime lab — which last year the agency said could take up to five years to get through — but Illinois’ precarious financial history is complicating the process, according to an ISP report published last month.
