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‘Intervention and prevention’: Mayor Lightfoot, NYC mayor meet to talk crime-fighting strategy
Adams visited Chicago for a sequence of stops, together with a fundraiser.
In the course of the assembly, the 2 leaders shared concepts for methods to fight the shared drawback of violent crime.
Lightfoot was again at metropolis corridor Friday after her fundraising journey to Miami.
The 2 big-city bosses talked behind closed doorways for about 40 minutes, with crime as a shared concern heading into the summer season.
“What I loved probably the most concerning the dialog that the 2 of us shared is, how we each give attention to not solely the speedy motion — we should do to maintain our streets secure — nevertheless it’s intervention and prevention,” Adams mentioned.
“We have to make it possible for we maintain violence, harmful folks accountable — on that, we each agree. However we additionally, because the mayor mentioned, and I feel very eloquently, stopping this river of violence,” Lightfoot added.
WATCH: Mayor Lightfoot, NYC mayor meet to speak crime-fighting technique
Whereas Chicago’s inhabitants is simply one-third of New York’s, its crime drawback is worse.
Statistics present, to date this 12 months, New York has seen 76 murders in comparison with 104 in Chicago. Based mostly on inhabitants, Chicago’s homicide fee is 4 instances greater.
Shootings, to date, paint a good bleaker comparability. New York has seen 217 shootings incidents, in comparison with 396 making the speed in Chicago 5 instances that of the Large Apple.
Adams mentioned he has some takeaways from the assembly that he plans to implement on a bigger scale in New York.
“How the mayor is occurring the bottom, doing the native city halls to talk with grassroots communities and organizers. It is so vital to take action,” Adams mentioned.
He mentioned he and Lightfoot are the precise mayors for this time.
The 2 didn’t discuss police reform, however share the identical give attention to rebuilding group belief.
“I feel we each acknowledge that you simply construct belief by being current and interesting and listening to the group,” Lightfoot mentioned.
With so many shared considerations, together with challenges, the 2 mayors plan to proceed collaborating and sharing finest practices with the frequent purpose of creating New York and Chicago safer cities.
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FILE photograph: View of the Chicago Hearth Division, the third largest municipal hearth division in america of America, within the Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 24, 2014.
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago hearth officers mentioned two ladies have been discovered lifeless in an Englewood house after a home hearth.
The fireplace broke out Tuesday night at a home within the 7200-block of South Wolcott, Chicago hearth officers mentioned.
The fireplace was struck out at about 9:10 p.m., CFD mentioned.
After the fireplace was out, firefighters discovered two grownup feminine victims lifeless within the wreckage.
It was not instantly clear if the ladies died within the hearth or earlier than the fireplace. No additional particulars have been launched.
The Chicago Hearth Division has not but commented on any potential causes for the fireplace or mentioned in the event that they consider it was suspicious.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ailing. (WLS) — Three ladies and their households had been good strangers up till the second tragedy introduced them collectively within the aftermath of Highland Park’s July 4th parade.
As Thanksgiving approaches, they’re united in goal and in gratitude for probably the most primary of all issues: life.
“I believed I used to be going to die,” Highland Park capturing survivor Liz Turnipseed mentioned. “That I used to be going to put there and I used to be going to bleed out and I used to be going to die.”
WATCH | Highland Park capturing survivor tells her story
“I used to be on the parade with my three grownup kids, my son-in-law and my 2-year-old grand child,” mentioned Debra Baum, with the Highland Park Gun Violence Mission. “Our complete household may have been worn out.”
“July third I had 70 folks at my home and the following day our life bought flipped the other way up,” capturing survivor Lindsay Hartman mentioned. “So I simply know for me, I am attempting to take pleasure in it and never spend an excessive amount of time previously.”
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For Lindsay, not spending an excessive amount of time previously means internet hosting Thanksgiving for 30. Liz, who was one of many almost 50 folks injured that day, nonetheless wants a cane to get round, so she’ll be catering the meal and having her complete household fly in. Debra shall be coming along with the identical household she was with on July 4.
“There are numerous households in Highland Park that do not have folks with them this Thanksgiving due to what occurred,” Baum mentioned. “It is a very weighty realization.”
However there’s additionally gratitude for random issues and other people, like for the proper strangers who took in Liz’s 3-year-old daughter for a few hours after she was shot. And the neighbor she’d by no means met earlier than who lent her a step stool for her mattress.
Turning ache into goal is what unites these ladies now as they foyer for an assault weapons ban in Congress. As a result of whereas life for them won’t ever be the identical, it does transfer on.
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WASHINGTON D.C. — The Biden administration is but once more extending the pause on federal scholar mortgage funds, a profit that started in March 2020 to assist individuals who have been struggling financially because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a supply conversant in the plan mentioned.
The Division of Training will announce it’s extending the freeze one other six months with the primary funds due two months after June 30, the supply mentioned, until a Supreme Courtroom resolution on the president’s scholar mortgage aid program comes first.
The administration had beforehand mentioned the latest extension could be the final, and funds have been scheduled to restart in January.
However the administration had additionally meant for its scholar mortgage forgiveness program to start canceling as much as $20,000 in debt for low- and middle-income debtors earlier than January. This system has but to be carried out because it faces a number of authorized challenges.
This story is breaking and can be up to date.
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