It’s a massive amount of money compared to other cities, but sadly typical when it comes to Chicago’s recent history of legal settlements, which are far out of proportion to major American cities. And it’s not just the CPD.
A model of crime contagion suggests that heavy segregation by income—and segregating the rich from the poor with a middle-class buffer—is worse for city crime levels than a mix of neighborhoods.
Despite the city and state’s court defeats over gun control, the mayor is making an explicit push to tighten the city’s laws, and is likely to target assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
A new report from the United States Global Change research program looks at the U.S. and climate change over the rest of the century, projecting hotter hot days, wetter winters, more 100-degree days, and deadly heat waves along the lines of 1995.
Some of Chicago’s great unbuilt buildings are as remarkable as the ones that make up its skyline. What would happen if Harry Weese’s Lake Michigan Islands, the Sears Tower on its side, and a Tribune Tower in the shape of a giant classical column shared downtown?
Looking at ESL speakers, the far north and northwest sides of Chicago have a great deal of linguistic diversity, with Belmont Cragin having a high number of non-native speakers, and West Ridge a breadth of languages. The far south side, on the other hand, is notable for its lack of non-English speakers.
Barack Obama has been criticized for the lack of diversity in his cabinet: too white and too male. With two women departing and a third likely to—and Republican Chuck Hagel expected to become Secretary of Defense—could that leave white male Republican Ray LaHood, his well-regarded transportation secretary, without a seat?
This year’s flu season is unusually intense, and literally off the charts—well, Google’s Flu Indicator chart at least, which tracks what people are searching for and uses it to predict the severity of the flu season. Hopefully it will remain not very deadly, however.
David Axelrod, Team Obama’s winning strategist, on ditching the campaign trail for a friendlier milieu: the University of Chicago
Illinois has the most restrictive pension laws in the nation, so almost anything the legislature does to try to cut benefits is almost certain to be challenged in the courts. Getting each other to agree on what’s fiscally sensible and politically survivable is hard enough; agreeing on what’s legally sound is no easier.
