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Mayor Brandon Johnson
@ChicagosMayor
Jun 12
This is not a sign of prosperity. It's an indictment of a broken economy and a broken tax code.
More Perfect Union
@MorePerfectUS
Jun 12
BREAKING: Elon Musk has become the first trillionaire in history.
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Chicago Mayor's Press Office retweeted
Mayor Brandon Johnson
@ChicagosMayor
Jun 12
If the community knows you're not going to run and hide when things get hard, that you're going to be there for them every step of the way, that's when you can start to build trust. Our Community Violence Intervention workers build that trust every day so they can de-escalate and prevent violence before it occurs. @AcclivusChicago
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Chicago Sun-Times
@Suntimes
Jun 12
Chicago has made substantial progress in encouraging more development near public transit in the South and West sides — five years after adopting a plan aimed to do just that. chicago.suntimes.com/real-es…

Chicago made progress on transit-oriented development 5 years after policy push, report says

The city adopted a framework for equitable transit-oriented development, and while progress has been made, there is more work to be done to encourage development in the South and West sides.

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Chicago Sun-Times
@Suntimes
Jun 10
A City Council committee on Wednesday approved the purchase of the endangered Greyhound bus station, setting the stage for a full Council vote to create Chicago’s first publicly owned intercity bus terminal. chicago.suntimes.com/transpo…

City panel approves Greyhound station purchase

The vote to buy the South Loop property for $19 million further reduces the chance of Greyhound's eviction and kicking thousands of many low-income passengers to the curb. The ordinance a awaits City...

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Chicago DPD
@ChicagoDPD
Jun 11
Check out Block Club's article on the winning proposal to repurpose a former Rogers Park firehouse at 1721-23 W. Greenleaf Ave. Selected via DPD RFP, the $3 million project will transform the site into a coffee house with event and office space. Read more: bit.ly/4upWyQp
This is a screenshot of an article from Block Club Chicago. The headline reads: "Rogers Park Firehouse Could Become Cafe, Co-Working Space As Developers Work To Restore It." The building in the image is a brick fire station with two garage doors, arched windows, and a worn facade. The article is reported by Madison Savedra, dated June 2, 2026.

ALT This is a screenshot of an article from Block Club Chicago. The headline reads: "Rogers Park Firehouse Could Become Cafe, Co-Working Space As Developers Work To Restore It." The building in the image is a brick fire station with two garage doors, arched windows, and a worn facade. The article is reported by Madison Savedra, dated June 2, 2026.
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Chicago Mayor's Press Office retweeted
Mayor Brandon Johnson
@ChicagosMayor
Jun 11
My administration is proud to lead the charge as we invest in a bold vision to transform the Loop into a 24-hour, live-work-play community. We’ll continue to build more affordable homes while ensuring every Chicagoan has a vibrant, safe, and affordable neighborhood to call home.
Chicago DPD
@ChicagoDPD
Jun 10
Twenty-five office-to-residential conversion projects are underway in downtown Chicago as of June 2026 — more than the last 20 years combined. Valued at $1.8 billion, the 3,900 units are repurposing approximately 4 million square feet of underutilized commercial space.
Map of downtown Chicago indicating locations of office-to-residential conversion projects, totaling over 3,930 units and $1.8 billion in project costs. The projects are marked with dots, classified as either LaSalle Revitalization Project or Private Market Project. The map includes a list of addresses with unit numbers and identifies well‑known streets like LaSalle, Monroe, Michigan, and Wacker. The Chicago Department of Planning and Development logo is in the lower right corner.

ALT Map of downtown Chicago indicating locations of office-to-residential conversion projects, totaling over 3,930 units and $1.8 billion in project costs. The projects are marked with dots, classified as either LaSalle Revitalization Project or Private Market Project. The map includes a list of addresses with unit numbers and identifies well‑known streets like LaSalle, Monroe, Michigan, and Wacker. The Chicago Department of Planning and Development logo is in the lower right corner.

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Chicago Mayor's Press Office retweeted
Mayor Brandon Johnson
@ChicagosMayor
Jun 11
I'm thankful that His Holiness, @Pontifex Pope Leo XIV, is using his voice to call for peace, human dignity and compassion at a moment when too many leaders are choosing fear and division. The call before us is clear: Protect one another, defend human dignity, prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable, reject fear and division, and work toward justice and peace rooted in our shared responsibility to each other. @VaticanNews chicago.suntimes.com/other-v…

Pope Leo XIV and I agree: Our country and world need healing

Challenges and responsibility were on my mind as I sat with the pope, a fellow son of Chicago whose moral leadership comes at a critical moment.

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Of course Mayor Johnson believes CPD should respond to reports of shots fired---they have not stopped doing so. However, we cannot continue to spend taxpayer dollars on technologies which have proven to be ineffective. Mayor Johnson has worked with CPD to revamp the Detectives Bureau while investing in effective technologies and improved inter-agency coordination. Since Mayor Johnson took office, CPD's homicide clearance rate has increased to 74%---it's highest point in decades---while there were 47% fewer shooting incidents in 2025 than there were in 2022.
Richard Day@richsday
Jun 11
Replying to @ChicagoMPO
And again, I'd ask: Does the Mayor believe CPD *should* respond when guns are fired in neighborhoods across the city?
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We see your single 2019 analysis which itself states there is limited research which shows this technology is reliable in detecting shots fired as well as stating there is little academic research supporting the notion these technologies contribute to a reduction in gun crime. We raise: An August 2021 report conducted by the Office of the Inspector General concluded Chicago Police Department (CPD) responses to ShotSpotter alerts rarely produced evidence of a gun-related crime, rarely gave rise to investigatory stops, and even less frequently lead to the recovery of gun crime-related evidence. A 2021 analysis conducted by the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law, which reviewed CPD deployments tied to ShotSpotter alerts from July 1, 2019 through April 14, 2021, found that 89% of deployments turned up no evidence of a gun-related criminal offense and 86% did not produce evidence of any crime. A 2021 study by J Urban Health and the New York Academy of Medicine, which modeled the impact of ShotSpotter implementation across 68 large U.S. metropolitan counties between 1999 and 2016, found “no difference in county-level homicides, murder arrests, and weapons arrests for large metropolitan counties with and without ShotSpotter technology.” Official analysis by the City of Atlanta which found ShotSpotter often duplicated and over-reported gunfire alerts while contributing little to evidence collection. Only 3% of ShotSpotter alerts led to the recovery of shell casings while the system led to just five arrests and five firearm recoveries during all of 2019. A 2020 study by the Journal of Experimental Criminology, which evaluated ShotSpotter’s ability to reduce gun violence in St. Louis, found the technology did not “deliver a consistent improvement in the response time to calls for shots fired” and did not significantly reduce violent crime levels. A 2018 NBC6 Miami investigation into ShotSpotter usage in Miami, FL which found that between Jan. 2017 and Sept. 2018 the technology led to just two arrests. A 91.3 WYSO investigation into the results of Dayton, OH’s ShotSpotter contract found that fewer than 2% of deployments resulted in an arrest and only 5% of alerts resulted in the recovery of criminal evidence. LINKS BELOW
Richard Day@richsday
Jun 11
Replying to @ChicagoMPO
Sure! Here's a link to an ICJIA report on the issue: icjia.illinois.gov/researchh…
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nbcmiami.com/news/local/thou…

SHOTS FIRED: Thousands of Gunshots, But Few Arrests

Local law enforcement is spending millions of taxpayers’ money in technology to curb gun violence. The NBC 6 Investigators find out if it’s making a difference.

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wyso.org/local-and-statewide…

ShotSpotter Generates Thousands Of Alerts In Dayton, But Officers Find Few Crimes

The gunshot-detection microphones used by the Dayton Police Department dispatched officers to West Dayton over 2,200 times over the last two years.

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Chicago Mayor's Press Office retweeted
Chicago DPD
@ChicagoDPD
Jun 10
Twenty-five office-to-residential conversion projects are underway in downtown Chicago as of June 2026 — more than the last 20 years combined. Valued at $1.8 billion, the 3,900 units are repurposing approximately 4 million square feet of underutilized commercial space.
Map of downtown Chicago indicating locations of office-to-residential conversion projects, totaling over 3,930 units and $1.8 billion in project costs. The projects are marked with dots, classified as either LaSalle Revitalization Project or Private Market Project. The map includes a list of addresses with unit numbers and identifies well‑known streets like LaSalle, Monroe, Michigan, and Wacker. The Chicago Department of Planning and Development logo is in the lower right corner.

ALT Map of downtown Chicago indicating locations of office-to-residential conversion projects, totaling over 3,930 units and $1.8 billion in project costs. The projects are marked with dots, classified as either LaSalle Revitalization Project or Private Market Project. The map includes a list of addresses with unit numbers and identifies well‑known streets like LaSalle, Monroe, Michigan, and Wacker. The Chicago Department of Planning and Development logo is in the lower right corner.

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Chicago Mayor's Press Office retweeted
ChicagoBACP
@ChicagoBACP
Jun 9
Mayor Brandon Johnson and BACP announced the annual increase in Chicago’s minimum wage, an enhancement of the Fair Workweek Ordinance & the full establishment of the legal rights provisions of the Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance. More: Chicago.gov/LaborStandards
This image is an informational graphic from the Chicago Office of Labor Standards about labor law updates beginning July 1. It lists updates to minimum wage, paid leave and sick leave, and fair workweek policies. The minimum wage is increased to $17.05. Workers may enforce their rights for paid leave. The fair workweek ordinance covers employees making less than $64,945.55 annually or $33.85 hourly. The BACP logo is at the bottom right, and a website link, chicago.gov/LaborStandards, is at the bottom left.

ALT This image is an informational graphic from the Chicago Office of Labor Standards about labor law updates beginning July 1. It lists updates to minimum wage, paid leave and sick leave, and fair workweek policies. The minimum wage is increased to $17.05. Workers may enforce their rights for paid leave. The fair workweek ordinance covers employees making less than $64,945.55 annually or $33.85 hourly. The BACP logo is at the bottom right, and a website link, chicago.gov/LaborStandards, is at the bottom left.
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Chicago Mayor's Press Office retweeted
Mayor Brandon Johnson
@ChicagosMayor
Jun 8
Chicago! Bring your teen to your nearest @YMCAChicago to sign them up for a summer of free sports, pools, and safe places for them to gather.
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Chicago Contrarian
@ChicagoContrar1
Jun 8
You constantly make the claim the executive orders you created for Chicago have been adopted across the country. Yet you never name the cities. Name the cities. Name one.
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