“When we got in the car to go home, he said ‘mommy I was scared,’” Parthenia Wallace says, explaining her son’s reaction to what was supposed to be his first day of summer school.
As a newly formed commission launches a nationwide search for the Chicago’s next top cop, campaigns endorsing current and former Chicago police officials for the job are already impacting the process and raising some alarms.
Pikes Peak Community College recently marked the first anniversary of a program that makes college a reality for hundreds of Colorado Springs residents who might not otherwise afford it.
Joe Ferguson, the city’s former inspector general, said the lobbying raises “some unseemly appearances which, given that this is Chicago, should be of concern.”