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crime
  • by david hall
Curfew kerfuffle? Opinions different as night and day on earlier curfew for youths downtown

Ald. Brian Hopkins reignited the debate, proposing an 8 p.m. curfew downtown for unaccompanied minors, two hours earlier than the current curfew. But research already shows curfews are "ineffective at reducing crime and victimization."

photography
  • by david hall
Picture Chicago: 17 must-see Sun-Times photos from the first week of June

A Pride flag was raised in Daley Plaza to kick off Pride Month, hundreds marched to demand justice for missing and murdered Black women and girls during the seventh annual “We Walk for Her” march, and Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed his sixth budget for the state of Illinois.

crime
  • by david hall
Woman, 71, stabbed near Union Station in West Loop

The woman was in the 200 block of South Canal Street about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday when police say someone stabbed her. She's hospitalized in critical condition. A male suspect was taken into custody and charges were pending.

politics
  • by david hall
Budget balancing act? Pritzker signs $53.1 billion spending plan, dismisses Democratic discord

This year’s budget was no easy feat, and next year’s is expected to be even more challenging as the state nears a looming fiscal cliff.