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In addition to LEADS, the checks included “open source” searches, which includes internet searches for newspaper articles or social media presences, and CPD’s own internal searches on its Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting, or CLEAR, database, the IG’s office said.
“All along, he has done a great job following the science and public health recommendations, so I hope we can resolve this issue,” Montgomery said. “We need to keep people working, and keep schools open, and that’s just what we’re doing.”
“Business has a role to play, the church has a role to play, schools has a role to play, police has a role to play, politicians have a role to play,” he said. “This is our community, and we need to come together and work together to end this foolish, wicked violence in our city. God have mercy on all of us.”
But unlike the four previous announced contenders, Irvin’s candidacy is expected to attract the support of Griffin, the state’s wealthiest person and the CEO and founder of Citadel financial group. Griffin, an ardent foe of Pritzker, had previously promised to go “all in” on an effort to defeat the Democratic governor.
Back in 2020, Lightfoot pitched aldermen on the budget measure tying an annual tax increase to the consumer price index for decades by saying it would give the city and its taxpayers a degree of financial certainty, while sparing the City Council from having periodically to enact huge, unpopular hikes.
But in an emergency motion Friday, lawyers for Vrdolyak, who turned 84 last month, said he continues to suffer from a variety of serious medical conditions and has a compromised immune system that “place him at significant risk for severe illness, if not almost certainly, death, should he contract COVID-19.”
“Students have demanded and teachers have demanded for the safety of people in our school communities. We know this has not happened,” Catlyn Savado, 14, a freshman at Percy L. Julian High School on the Far South Side, said via megaphone on school grounds during the walkout. “We know what keeps us safe. Only the community knows what they need to keep the community safe. They increase the police budget, but we don’t have a mental health department at our schools. CTU has been fighting for nurses, social workers and psychologists in every single Chicago public school and even within a pandemic, that isn’t happening. That ain’t right.”
Amid the fallout, Ferguson opened an investigation. Lightfoot also commissioned law firm Jones Day to conduct its own investigation, which last month found that city officials failed to follow appropriate procedures, did not adequately communicate across departments and “did not live up to the public service mission” in their handling of the botched police raid on Young’s home.
Thomas and his lawyers contended the shooting was self-defense. He was afraid for his life, since Nicholas Lile grabbed Thomas by the neck, choked him and took him to the ground punching him, then threatened to kill him. Thomas pulled out a gun, identified himself as a police officer and fired a single shot, according to court records.
Javier Heredia-Rios, of the 300 block of Eastern Avenue in Joliet, was found guilty of four counts of murder and one count of concealing a homicide of another Joliet man, according to a news release from the Will County state’s attorney’s office. According to authorities, Heredia-Rios used a hammer to bludgeon Oscar Garrido-Castro, who was 36 at the time of his death.