South Side Weekly • 24th October 2023 Jewish Protesters Block Traffic to Demand Ceasefire in Gaza A coalition of Jewish groups demonstrated outside the offices of U.S. Senators Durbin and Duckworth before sitting in on Ida B. Wells Drive.
South Side Weekly • 20th September 2023 Company Building Asylum Seeker Camps Ran Troubled Detention Facilities in Canada, Texas The company, GardaWorld Services, was also hired to fly migrants out of Florida by Governor Ron DeSantis’s administration.
Block Club Chicago • 15th September 2023 Charges Against Southwest Side Asylum Seeker Dropped The 21-year-old mother faced felonies after migrants protested because they were unable to access the station’s public bathroom.
South Side Weekly • 1st September 2023 “Doesn’t Make it Wrong” CPD Chief Larry Snelling testified in 2015 that an officer’s use of force was appropriate, but IPRA and the then-superintendent found otherwise.
South Side Weekly • 28th July 2023 NASCAR Cost Chicago Millions in Road Work and Overtime CDOT work and police overtime for the street race add up to more than $3 million.
South Side Weekly • 17th July 2023 CPD Sergeant Accused of Threatening Asylum Seekers With Dog The officer is under investigation; volunteers allege mistreatment of new arrivals at five other stations.
The TRiiBE • 21st May 2023 ‘Fox and Friends’ staged Naperville interview criticizing Mayor Brandon Johnson One interviewee works for Project HOOD; the other was a paid Vallas staffer. They were invited to talk about violence.
Slate • 26th March 2023 Paul Vallas’s trail of school privatization The mayoral candidate has opened dozens of charter schools around the country, and is opening a militarized charter in Arkansas even while campaigning in Chicago.
The TRiiBE • 2nd March 2023 ECPS coalition wins a wide majority of Chicago’s new Police District Council seats Candidates aligned with the coalition won majorities in 16 out of 22 districts.
The TRiiBE • 8th February 2023 Paul Vallas’s son is one of 3 police officers who fatally shot a man in Texas The Chicago mayoral candidate has criticized foot-pursuit reforms and is endorsed by the FOP
Chicago Reader • 26th January 2023 Police brutality survivors and former cops are running in Chicago’s police district council races The councils are the first to be elected to police oversight bodies.
Chicago Reader • 30th March 2022 New body-cam images show CPD attack on Miracle Boyd Officer Nicholas Jovanovich now faces firing as a result of the 2020 incident, in which he knocked out the activist’s tooth and seized her cell phone.
Chicago Reader • 7th February 2022 Chicago police pistol-whipped suspect in brutal 2017 arrest Last year, COPA recommended three of the officers involved be fired. They still haven’t been.
South Side Weekly • 24th November 2021 CPD Audits Show Half of Officers Have Complaints At least one audit was prepared in response to activists' grassroots efforts.
The Trace • 27th August 2021 In Chicago, Controversy Mounts Over the Use of Gunshot Detection Sensors
South Side Weekly • 7th July 2021 Surveilling Dissent How CPD used the City’s gun-violence prevention center to monitor demonstrations last summer.
Scientific American • 8th July 2020 Vaccinations Have Sharply Declined Nationwide during the COVID-19 Pandemic Rates of childhood immunization have fallen across the U.S., raising the risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks
