Heather Cherone | July 14, 2021 5:11 pm
The Boys & Girls Club set to be built as part of the new police and fire training facility is the first new club to be built in Chicago in a generation, officials said. (Credit City of Chicago)
A plan to include a new Boys & Girls Club as part of a redesigned police and fire training academy is one vote away from final approval, as supporters told aldermen Wednesday that it will benefit young residents of the West Side and bring much-needed investment to one of Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods.
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The proposal, backed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot and unanimously endorsed by the City Council’s Housing and Real Estate Committee on Wednesday, calls for the city to rent the land for the two-story, 18,000-square-foot facility to the Boys & Girls Clubs for $1 per year for 55 years, with two 10-year options to extend the lease.
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Democrats plan increased policing and incarceration in response to lethal violence in Chicago
In what is on track to be a record year of deadly violence in Chicago, America’s third largest city, 104 people were shot over the July 4 Independence Day holiday weekend, 19 fatally, according to local media.
The days leading up to the holiday weekend saw horrific violence, including a one-month-old infant shot in the head while sitting in her car seat, a nine-year-old girl shot in the head while sitting in a car and an eight-year-old girl shot in the arm while in her home.
On July 1, 20-year-old Max Solomon Lewis, a University of Chicago undergraduate studying economics and computer science, was shot in the neck while sitting in an elevated car on the West Side. He died three days later.
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Bill Cosby and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot may not know each other but both have been giving genuine racial victimization a bad name.
After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the actor-comedianâs sexual assault conviction, Cosby, who spent three years in prison, reacted through his publicist Andrew Wyatt that the decision was âjustice for Black America.â
Thatâs a stretch. Iâm certain that the more than 50 women who accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them, for example, would disagree.
It could have been worse. After Cosbyâs sentencing three years ago, his spokesman called it the âmost racist and sexist trial in the countryâs historyâ and Cosby one of the âgreatest civil rights leaders in history,â comparing his case to the persecution of Jesus.
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