What will Illinois look like when the state’s controversial criminal justice reform bill called the SAFE-T Act is fully implemented January 1? Look to Cook County, which has already crippled its criminal justice system with changes similar to those in the SAFE-T Act.
Bertrand Goldberg’s famous River City complex in Chicago looks like nothing so much as an old bus operator’s coin dispenser, glass windows stacked inside its joined concrete cylinders. The South Loop megaproject was the architect’s try at a utopian urban neighborhood, complete with offices, shopping, restaurants, a park, and the “River Road,” a winding inner atrium lit from skylights. It’s a landmark of Brutalist design, a monument to ’80s thinking about cities, and a fixture of the Chicago Architecture Boat Tour.
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The building also tells a story Goldberg could not have anticipated: the rise and fall of the Chicago condo. When completed in 1987, River City’s 448 units were rentals designed to appeal to middle-income yuppies who found city living attractive but homeownership out of reach.
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City Council Public Safety Committee Holding Hearing On Carjackings Friday
CBS Chicago 1/22/2021 Syndicated Local – CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS)– Alderman are frustrated, residents are terrified, and victims are left traumatized as the number of carjackings keeps growing in Chicago, and on Friday the City Council Public Safety Committee is holding a public hearing on what might be done to stem the tide.
In just the first 21 days of the new year, there have been roughly 150 carjackings in Chicago.
Four more carjackings were reported within four hours across the city overnight.
Between 6:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Thursday, in Garfield Ridge, Bucktown, North Kenwood, and South Austin residents were the victims of carjackings.