La Casa Norte Opens $20M Facility To Serve Chicago’s Homeless
The new state-of-the-art facility will include housing units for homeless youth and families and homelessness prevention services.
The new state-of-the-art facility will include housing units for homeless youth and families and homelessness prevention services.
For nearly four years, Chicago Public Schools has employed intelligence analysts to quietly monitor the social media of more than 25,000 students in an effort to prevent gun and gang violence in its schools. But critics argue the program violates students’ right to privacy.
Alderman Brian Hopkins and Rep. Mike Quigley have introduced legislation that would help prevent birds from crashing into tall buildings.
Chicago has lost residents each year since 2015.
Too much news, not enough time? From the shake-ups in City Hall to the latest with the county’s controversial gang database, let ‘Morning Shift’ catch you up on the biggest Chicago and Illinois stories of the week with our Friday News Roundup.
The $7 billion development would essentially become Chicago’s 78th neighborhood.
A dramatic uptick in robocalls is plaguing consumers, with experts estimating that they will make up nearly half of all calls by mid-2019. But the good news is that there are ways to protect yourself.
There’s about to be a new fashion co-op setting up shop in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Started by fashion blogger and author Hoda Katebi, the Blue Tin Production co-op will employ and be run exclusively by refugee and immigrant women in Chicago. Hoda Katebi stops by the Morning Shift for more on the story behind the co-op.
It’s that time of year again — pothole season. Chicagoans are no strangers to the consequences of the city’s harsh winter can have on city streets. We’ve all hit a bad pothole on Lake Shore Drive. But with last week’s polar vortex that left Chicago in a deep freeze for days, and the rapid rise in temperatures that immediately followed, the city’s infrastructure could be in a bigger mess than usual.Morning Shift checks in with the Chicago Department of Transportation, the Illinois Department of Transportation, and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on how the city is tackling the freeze-thaw cycle’s impact on infrastructure.GUEST: Tom Carney, Chicago Department of Transportation commissioner Ed Staudacher, managing engineer at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater ChicagoGuy Tridgell, Illinois Department of Transportation commissionerLEARN MORE: LIVE STORM TRACKER Chicago Weather: Ice Storm Warning issued for area Tuesday evening (ABC-7 2/5/19)
In a historic ruling late last week, U.S. District Judge Robert Dow Jr. approved a consent decree between the mayor’s office, the Illinois Attorney General, and the Chicago Police Department. The move sets in motion a major overhaul of the police department that is several years in the making. In a joint statement about the final consent decree, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said: “This is a historic day for Chicago and a step towards significant, lasting change.” In an editorial in the Chicago Tribune, former Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan called the move “a new beginning.” Morning Shift talks to WBEZ criminal justice reporter Patrick Smith about what comes next.