By declining to take up the case Illinois Transportation Trade Association v. Chicago, the Supreme Court allows customers of Uber, Lyft, and similar e-hailing services to breathe easier.
Law enforcement has room to make humane changes, without putting their lives in peril.
Maybe focus on getting your own nearly bankrupt government in order, Emanuel.
Collecting $99 million and paying out $999 million in a single year is not a formula for success.
Instead it turns citizens against their protectors.
Police union fears teaching officers to prioritize de-escalation would endanger their lives.
Chicago Public Schools looking for more money from state
Mayor and president use their bully pulpits to kvetch at each other. Does it even mean anything?
Skyrocketing costs, financial crisis make the Land of Lincoln very thirsty.
The Justice Department's scathing report finds a pattern of unconstitutional force, retaliation, and a code of silence.
Hate crime is thought crime.
Also keep an eye out for foot-dragging on releasing footage of controversial calls.
A bureaucratic nightmare takes a mother away from her young child for almost two months.
Police acknowledge he could've been fired before either of his fatal shootings of unarmed people.
So, it's working as planned.
Regulations are "draconian and unintelligible," lawsuit says. Other have described them as "literally incomprehensible" and "dizzyingly complex."
Don't understand the rules? Too bad. You can still get fined up to $5,000 per day by the city.
Transparency of decades of Chicago PD abuse is almost here.
A 26-year veteran of the department, William Whitley's record reveals 28 complaints against him, going back to 1991.
80 percent of Chicago aldermen blew off the annual ethics board hearing after it ruled they had to buy tickets on the open market like everybody else.
The police's culture of silence and lack of accountability feeds Chicago's crime problems.
Residents of the city will pay $57 annually as part of a rescue plan that hinges on several questionable assumptions.
A pair of orchestrated hit pieces from media outlets has spurred the city to hand out massive fines.
Two city aldermen say it's about protecting pedestrians, but it's really about protecting taxi companies.
Police unions protect bad officers from being held accountable for their actions, and local governments have to stop letting that happen.
Former city commissioner gets 10 years for taking $2 million bribe, while Chicago made $285 million from red light cams last year.
The taxman plays art critic
The city is still paying the tab for the bid-but it could have been much worse.
Neighboring businesses don't want the competition.
Unions, lack of independent accountability get part of the blame.
"Put a G-string on" and let the topless, drunken good times roll suggest some on the Chicago City Council.
Liberty suffers another blow in Chicago 'for the children.'
Illinois' sources of revenues are leaving as government employees keep demanding more, more, more.
Something to keep an eye on as body camera programs are implemented.
Blame shifting and a lack of political accountability perpetuate problems with police, education, and even water.
Studies showing city folk getting better treatment.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel doesn't see a problem.
The same groups that give big-city Democrats political power make it nearly impossible to reform bad practices.
To include equipping all cops with Tasers
Give an officer a Taser, and he or she will find reasons to use it.
