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After the election results in California, the left must organize and fight

Progressive movements that have built power in cities across the country are facing a well-financed backlash from entrenched interests they vowed to fix

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In Cook County, governments have lost $89.7 million, letting tenants skip out on property taxes

They lease public property to businesses. Many don’t pay their taxes. And the government landlords do little to monitor this, even when the law requires it, a Sun-Times investigation finds.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot unloads on criminal court judges after three police shootings in a week

“Given the exacting standards that the state’s attorney has for charging a case—which is proof beyond a reasonable doubt—when those charges are brought, these people are guilty,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said. “Of course they’re entitled to a presumption of innocence. Of course they’re entitled to…

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Chesa Boudin, San Francisco prosecutor raised by radicals in Hyde Park, facing a recall vote Tuesday

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said she and other “progressive prosecutors” have been “reelected even in these challenging times of rising violence,”

Chicago Sun-Times

Darren Bailey’s Chicago ‘hellhole’ comment and the issue of crime become focus in debate among GOP candidates for governor

State Sen. Darren Bailey doubled down on his comments he considered Chicago a crime-ridden “hellhole” during a debate Thursday night of the Republican candidates for governor as he also sought to aggressively label rival Richard Irvin a “corrupt Democrat.”

Chicago Tribune

GOP gubernatorial debates: Bailey calls Chicago ‘a crime-ridden, corrupt, dysfunctional hellhole’

It was a bleak picture painted by the half of the GOP primary field — venture capitalist Jesse Sullivan, businessman Gary Rabine and state Sen. Darren Bailey — who squared off during a live debate hosted by WGN-TV.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cook County prosecutors told not to subpoena witnesses for trial preparation as office revamps policies

CHICAGO — Some Cook County prosecutors have been instructed not to subpoena witnesses for dates when their testimony is not required in court, the Tribune has learned, halting a common practice of seeking court orders summoning witnesses to meet with prosecutors ahead of trial.

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Chicago man charged with hate crimes after threatening Lightfoot, Foxx

Christopher J. Tatlock, 32, allegedly sent emails to Foxx threatening “to shoot and hang her if she did not prosecute crime in Chicago.”

Chicago Sun-Times

R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago will kick off Aug. 1 after judge denies 3-month delay

CHICAGO — R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago is set to kick off in August after a judge on Tuesday denied a request to postpone it by three months.

Chicago Tribune

Killing of 15-year-old tests a justice system strained by more arrests, fewer resources

The murder of Michael Brown has once again confronted Chicago with kids killing kids, and the problem of meting out justice to juveniles while keeping the streets safe.

Chicago Sun-Times

Judge denies Kim Foxx’s bid to let inmate out early under new state law

Judge Stanley Sacks said he didn’t believe 55-year-old convicted burglar Charles Miles had shown himself to be rehabilitated while in prison and expressed skepticism over whether the state’s constitution would allow him to effectively commute the remainder of Miles’ sentence.

Chicago Sun-Times

Prosecutors drop case connected to disgraced ex-police detective

CHICAGO — Two years after launching a review of convictions connected to discredited former Chicago police Detective Reynaldo Guevara, Cook County prosecutors on Monday agreed to dismiss charges in one Guevara-related case.

Chicago Tribune

Former state’s attorney candidate says business, union leaders fed up with Lightfoot, urging him to run for mayor — and he’s listening

Bill Conway’s father, William E. Conway Jr., helped found the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, and has a net worth pegged at $3.5 billion in 2020. He donated $10.5 million to his son’s 2020 run for Cook County state’s attorney.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago police review board completes Toledo shooting probe

Chicago’s police review board says it has completed its investigation into the shooting death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo last year and delivered its report to Police Superintendent David Brown

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Civilian review agency concludes investigation into fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability said it has forwarded its findings to Police Supt. David Brown. COPA did not disclose its recommendations.

Chicago Sun-Times

Kim Foxx: I won’t ‘cut corners’ — despite crime spike — in county with long history of wrongful convictions

The Cook County state’s attorney told the Sun-Times Wednesday her office is taking a harder look at cases than under her predecessors.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bring the last cases involving corrupt cop Ronald Watts to an end

Now is the time to either close the cases involving Watts, or explain what makes these cases so different that they have to stay on the docket.

Chicago Sun-Times

Attorneys ask judge to vacate 39 remaining cases tied to disgraced CPD sergeant

A motion filed earlier this week seeks summary judgment on behalf of dozens of people who have waited for years to prove that they were wrongfully arrested by Sgt. Ronald Watts or officers working for him.

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Digging into the details on Chicago’s murder clearance rate

Padded clearance stats and stalled court cases do little to boost either public confidence or police morale, as one expert says.

The Independent UK

Florida man who threatened to behead AOC and Pelosi sentenced to 18 months in prison

Paul Vernon Hoeffer pleaded guilty to calling members of Congress and Illinois prosecutor with violent threats

Chicago Sun-Times

Half of murder cases considered ‘solved’ by CPD in 2021 did not lead to charges

Police officials touted that detectives in a violent year cleared the highest number of cases in nearly 20 years, but that doesn’t mean most killers will face justice, a Sun-Times analysis found.

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: There’s a solid case for cutting sentences. But few trust Kim Foxx

In Cook County Jail, you can find senior citizens who’ve done two decades or more of time for a nonviolent offense, had plenty of opportunity to rethink their lives and now represent no real danger to anyone. Cannot reasonable people agree that there is a case for rethinking their initial…

Chicago Sun-Times

Year after Adam Toledo’s killing, family renews call for criminal charges against Chicago police officer who shot 13-year-old

“This is not the place where Adam deserved to die, in an alley alone at night at 13 years old,” the teen’s sister said tearfully during a vigil Tuesday.

Chicago Tribune

On anniversary of his death, Adam Toledo’s family and community members honor teen with a vigil and call for officer who shot him to be held accountable

CHICAGO — On the first anniversary of the fatal shooting of teenager Adam Toledo by a Chicago police officer during a foot chase, his family went to the church where his funeral Mass was held and then visited his grave.

Chicago Tribune

Questions remain as resentencing initiative championed by Kim Foxx is slow out of the gate in Cook County

Cook County prosecutors’ new effort to reduce sentences for some longtime inmates — hailed by State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and other reform advocates as a way to right the wrongs of the tough-on-crime era — will have an uphill climb before some judges, if its first week in court is…

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