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The city feels vindicated in today’s ruling that he is being held accountable and that we will appropriately receive restitution for his actions.
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By adjusting our mitigation measures, based on these metrics, we’ve been able to protect and save the lives of our residents, as well as prevent our healthcare system from collapsing.
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I've spoken to too many mothers in that community who have told me they're afraid, afraid to step outside of their homes, afraid for their lives, afraid the gangs have taken over.
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To be clear, what the Chicago Teacher’s Union did was an illegal walk-out, they abandoned their posts and they abandoned kids and their families.
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Do you feel safer knowing these numbers? I don’t think any sane person does.
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We will shut you down, we will cite you, and if we need to, we will arrest you, and we will take you to jail.
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Fundamentally what we can not do is abandon the science. We know that the safest place for kids to be is in-person learning in Chicago Public Schools, and we’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars to make Chicago Public Schools safe. They are safe. We’ve got the data to demonstrate that. We’ve got to get the teacher’s union to get real and get serious about getting back into in-person learning.
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To be clear, what the Chicago Teacher’s Union did was an illegal walk-out. They abandoned their posts and they abandoned kids and their families, my team has been working every single day. They’re back at it again here Sunday.
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What it gets is they get to try to flex their power, but they do it at the expense of our children, they do it at the expense of our families. We know that when we were fully remote previously, 100,000 of our kids lost contact and would disengage from the system. We saw in the elementary schools the failure rate during remote learning triple from what it was. We saw the trauma and social emotional harm to students across our system.
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I will not allow [the Chicago Teachers Union] to take our children hostage. I will not allow them to compromise the future of this generation of CPS students. That is not going to happen.
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We are not going to rob parents of their right and their obligation to tell us if they want testing or not on their children. It's not going to happen. It's morally wrong.
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In too many neighborhoods, gangs are targeting young boys – young boys with promise, young boys with a whole history and opportunity in front of them, but they’re targeting them with false promises of wealth, an easy life, and a sense of purpose and belonging.
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Nobody signs up for being a home-schooler at the last minute, we ca n’t forget about how disruptive that remote process is to individual parents who have to work, who ca n’t afford the luxury of staying home.
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The federal government remains uniquely qualified to help address the scourge of gun violence, we need these additional resources well in advance of next summer.
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We still have retailers that won't institute plans like having security officers in their stores, making sure that they've got cameras that are actually operational, locking up their merchandise at night, chaining high-end bags, these purses can be something that is attracting a lot of organized retail theft units.
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We are going to take significant, swift action to quell any issues, [Saturday night] there were a large number of children that were down at Millennium Park. We followed the protocols that we put in place from the summer of 2020. When it was time for them to leave the park, we made sure they left the park without incident.
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These kids have to take responsibility, but I’m going to say the parents have to take responsibility, do you know where your kid is? Are you making sure that you’re talking to your children about how they should act in a large crowd?
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Under our constitutional system, we must respect the jury’s decision.
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At almost every single point in our city's history, racism has taken a devastating toll on the health and well-being of our residents of color – especially those who are Black, without formally acknowledging this detrimental impact, we will never be able to move forward as a city and fully provide our communities with the resources they need to live happy and healthy lives.
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I understand the fear that’s out there but I’m just calling upon people in these neighborhoods..., you’ve got to have your faith overcome your fear, you’ve got to step up.
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This new policy enhances the district’s comprehensive reopening plan and ensures that students and staff can confidently learn in-person, taking this step will further our citywide vaccination efforts and build on our progress in slowing and stopping the spread of COVID-19.
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Our Chicago Public School communities deserve a safe and healthy environment that will allow our students to reach their greatest potential.
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We checked with [attendees] every single day, multiple times a day. We had our people at the screening checkpoints, every single day, they turned hundreds of people away, either who didn’t have the right paperwork or had an expired test that wasn’t [taken] within 72 hours. That tells me there is a rigor around the protocols that they were using to screen people.
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That’s on the mayor and that’s on every single alderman who didn’t pay attention when they passed a budget last October that clearly had only $100 million set aside for police back-pay, which was pretty short-sighted, since the Fire Department got the same amount.
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You tell them that you have these really restrictive gun laws where people can’t get guns to defend themselves, criminals would rather go and buy guns out of state and then commit crimes where the gun laws are really restrictive because no one else can protect themselves -- and yet liberals still think they are making an argument for gun control.
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The parties have been in discussions throughout the course of the day to determine if there is a pathway toward a final, comprehensive deal, those discussions continue.
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