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Chicago Police Division brass accused Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration of intentionally slowing down paychecks for dozens of workers this summer season in a fiery e-mail that warned town was jeopardizing its compliance with the federal consent decree.
Police Division Deputy Director Ryan Fitzsimons emailed a number of officers in Johnson’s finances workplace June 2 to alert them of the division’s overdue A-forms, paperwork required to course of paychecks for brand new hires and promotions. After following up the following day to substantiate that police recruits weren’t getting their first paychecks, he despatched an extra message June 10 saying Johnson’s finances workplace was purposely sitting on the types.
“On condition that we mentioned at size through e-mail and on our assembly on Might eighth the necessity for well timed approval of A-Varieties, it might seem that OBM is pursuing a sample of observe to delay the approval of A-Varieties with the useful results of not paying workers on time and delaying compliance with the Consent Decree,” Fitzsimons wrote. “What’s OBM’s plan to systemically approve or deny A-forms?”
Learn the total story from the Tribune’s Alice Yin.
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Financial alternatives tied to local weather targets, Gov. JB Pritzker says at Aspen convention
Gov. JB Pritzker shared his fears about the way forward for local weather coverage underneath President Donald Trump — and his ideas on how Illinois can persist with its local weather targets amid federal funding cuts — at a local weather convention final evening in Chicago.
Playing machines in Chicago bars, airports? Aldermen weigh income potential.
Playing may quickly come to Chicago’s neighborhood bars or worldwide airports as aldermen eye legalizing video playing machines as a method so as to add tax income.
If Ald. William Corridor will get his method, the playing machines will probably be broadly legalized throughout town subsequent 12 months, popping up in locations like bars and eating places to assist handle town’s finances woes.
Man convicted of first-degree homicide in slaying of CPD Officer Andrés Vásquez Lasso
A Cook dinner County jury convicted a person of first-degree homicide within the deadly taking pictures of Chicago police Officer Andrés Vásquez Lasso following a weeklong trial marked by tough physique digicam footage of the 2023 slaying.
Veteran Chicago protection legal professional Thomas Anthony Durkin dies at 78
Longtime prison protection legal professional Thomas Anthony Durkin, referred to as a tireless advocate for his purchasers who loved holding the federal government accountable for overstepping authority in all the pieces from terrorism investigations to digital surveillance, died yesterday after a quick hospitalization. He was 78.
At the moment in Chicago Historical past: ‘Public Enemy No. 1’ John Dillinger killed outdoors Biograph Theater
On today in 1934: Chicago was within the grip of a weeklong warmth wave, and the mercury that day reached 101. Twenty-three folks died of the warmth, however the loss of life that drew probably the most consideration was that of John Dillinger — a 31-year-old Indiana man who, on his birthday a month earlier, had been declared Public Enemy No. 1 by the FBI.
Within the warmth of that July, film homes marketed that they had been “air-cooled.” Maybe that’s what made Dillinger determine to take a prostitute named Polly Hamilton and Hamilton’s landlady, Anna Sage, to the Biograph Theater (now referred to as Victory Gardens Theater) at 2433 N. Lincoln Ave., to see “Manhattan Melodrama,” a gangster film starring Clark Gable.
Chicago Bears roster breakdown: How Dennis Allen’s protection is coming collectively as coaching camp opens
It wasn’t an enormous overhaul, however the Bears made a couple of key modifications on protection heading into 2025. Basic supervisor Ryan Poles and coach Ben Johnson centered a lot of their effort on the trenches, including two starters to the line of defense.
Column: Comings (All-Star Sport) and goings (NASCAR) as Chicago’s summer season reminds us why we by no means depart
With the Bears beginning coaching camp, the Cubs at house in opposition to the Kansas Metropolis Royals within the warmth of a pennant race and the White Sox on a uncommon three-game profitable streak, yesterday was a type of days that reminds us why we by no means can depart.
Whereas we await the following warmth dome, Paul Sullivan has another observations on the world of sports activities.
Column: Amy Lechelt’s flower store floats by city in a pink Mercedes
Amy Lechelt is a form of modern-day Eliza Doolittle, the flower woman of “My Truthful Girl.” She is in the identical enterprise and has had, to this point, a full, attention-grabbing and rewarding life, writes Rick Kogan.
She is a part of town’s floating outside economic system, which incorporates, most clearly, meals vans, however is nowhere close to the vibrancy and selection in such locations as Paris or New York.
Grilling up ‘octo’ with Monteverde’s Bailey Sullivan
A couple of month after her top-three end on Bravo’s “Prime Chef,” Bailey Sullivan, freed from cameras and in her consolation zone, was again to working as govt chef at Monteverde Restaurant & Pastificio. For the previous few months, diners on the West Loop restaurant have acquired their invoice with a glowing portrait of Sullivan, celebrating her look on the present.
Sullivan’s private type is memorable — ever-colorful hair, massive glasses and rotating patterned bandanas. It appears to let you know all the pieces about her on first look: quirky and simply artistic. However that belies a scholarly understanding of Italian cooking historical past, strategies and terminology, and a critical competitor.
Evaluate: ‘Women & Boys’ by Griffin Theatre is a devastating solo reminiscence play
On this one-woman play, British author Dennis Kelly (a Tony Award winner for the ebook of “Matilda the Musical”) manages a tough balancing act, tackling an especially darkish topic in virtually surgical element whereas softening its harshest blows for the viewers and sustaining some sense of hope in humanity. Oh, and the present can also be hilarious, writes Emily McClanathan.
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