Last week, the City Council voted 33-14 to approve an ordinance that would give Chicago Police Department Supt. Larry Snelling the power to renew the city's ShotSpotter contract. However ...

Meantime, some City Council supporters of ShotSpotter announced Tuesday that they had worked with Chicago business leaders to raise $2.5 million to help fund a new gunshot detection system ...

WE SPENT THE DAY in the Chicago City Council meeting ... The plan will return for the next council meeting. And regarding ShotSpotter: There was renewed debate over the gun-detection technology.

RELATED: Chicago Residents Question Loss of ShotSpotter: 'It's Very Worrying ... to strip Johnson of that contracting power. The City Council was set to consider yet another similar ordinance ...

speak during a City Council meeting, Oct. 9, 2024, at City Hall. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) Robinson said the search for a ShotSpotter replacement is moving in a “better direction.” ...

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s ... originally on the agenda Wednesday was the bid by half the City Council to save ShotSpotter, the city’s gun detection system, before that meeting ...

Throughout Chicago, the people are raising their voices about a host of issues. We fear those voices are going unheard.

After Wednesday’s Chicago City Council meeting ... But in the more than two weeks now since ShotSpotter went offline, Moore argues the city has paid the price. “That's been thoroughly reported ...

Days after the Oct. 26 shooting of an Orthodox Jewish man in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson was publicly rebuked for issuing ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson at Wednesday’s City Council meeting ... takeover and his decision to cancel ShotSpotter has strained the relationship between Chicago’s executive and legislative branches.

CHICAGO — Mayor ... appointees to answer. A city committee has asked the new School Board appointees to answer questions from them at Wednesday’s special City Council meeting.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's announcement on new measures to close Chicago's nearly $1 billion budget deficit, which could include layoffs, is one of several storylines coming out of City Hall on ...