by JimThackerSAFE24 | Dec 8, 2021 | Chicago Crime, Retail Theft
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has accused stores of not taking adequate measures to prevent themselves from being victims of crime. During a crime summit on Monday at the University of Illinois in Chicago, Lightfoot said she was disappointed with stores on Michigan...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Dec 7, 2021 | Illinois News
The smartest thing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot did with her lawsuit against the Fraternal Order of Police over its opposition to her Covid vaccine mandate was to drop it. The mayor said last week she is dropping the suit because she’s now satisfied with the number of...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Dec 7, 2021 | Illinois News
December 3, 2021 In an analysis of Cook County’s FY2022 budget proposal released in November, the Civic Federation supported the Cook County budget proposal of $8.0 billion. This blog post takes a closer look at public safety spending in the County’s budget by...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Dec 7, 2021 | Chicago Crime, Retail Theft
CHICAGO (CBS) — Customers were pushed and shoved this week as a group of thieves ransacked the Burberry store on the Magnificent Mile – in the latest hit in a number of similar mass-thefts at high-end Chicago stores. CBS 2’s Tara Molina asked Tuesday how the crime is...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Dec 7, 2021 | Chicago Crime
The victims met their fates over two decades in every corner of the city: informants shot execution-style, rivals gunned down in barbershops and restaurants, a rapper targeted after online taunts, an innocent bystander felled by bullets sprayed at a pickup basketball...
