December 6, 2023

PR Newswire: New Database Reveals Impact of Wrongful Convictions on Taxpayers and Communities in City of Chicago

PR Newswire: New Database Reveals Impact of Wrongful Convictions on Taxpayers and Communities in City of Chicago (PRESS RELEASE). “The Truth, Hope and Justice Initiative, global law firm Ropes & Gray, the Law Firm Antiracism Alliance, and global professional services firm Aon announced today the creation of a searchable database comprising information on Section 1983 civil rights lawsuits filed against the City of Chicago and personnel from the Chicago Police Department since the year 2000.”

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December 6, 2023

NBC Chicago: Chicago Transit Authority partners with Google on AI-powered ‘Chat with CTA’ bot

NBC Chicago: Chicago Transit Authority partners with Google on AI-powered ‘Chat with CTA’ bot . “A new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot is expected to go online early next year, as the Chicago Transit Authority and Google Public Sector partner to create the ‘Chat with CTA’ program. The bot will answer basic travel questions, and will collect rider feedback on ride quality, according to a press release from the agency.”

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October 7, 2023

Chicago Tribune: Puerto Rican museum in Humboldt Park to tear down archives building amid complaints, lawsuit and find new site

Chicago Tribune: Puerto Rican museum in Humboldt Park to tear down archives building amid complaints, lawsuit and find new site. “It resembles a German style of architecture that is ‘very unusual’ in Chicago, according to the Chicago Park District, and is home to the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture. But when the museum began construction about a year ago — without proper permits — on a cinder-block structure for archives beside the Chicago landmark, some residents and preservation groups were alarmed, calling it an eyesore that blemished the area’s historic charm and didn’t involve enough community input.”

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September 9, 2023

WTTW: Police Oversight Board Votes to Permanently Scrap New Chicago Gang Database

WTTW: Police Oversight Board Votes to Permanently Scrap New Chicago Gang Database. “Nearly four and a half years after the city’s watchdog warned the police department’s gang databases were riddled with errors, ripe for abuse and disproportionately targeted Black and Latino Chicagoans, an interim commission overseeing the Chicago Police Department voted to scrap plans to launch a new system.”

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September 8, 2023

Block Club Chicago: Alderman Launches Migrant Data Portal, Improving Transparency On Care For New Arrivals

Block Club Chicago: Alderman Launches Migrant Data Portal, Improving Transparency On Care For New Arrivals. “The website will provide weekly updates on the number of migrants in the city, new arrivals, shelter locations and other data, as well as efforts by Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration and city departments to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis, Vasquez said. The data includes how many migrants are staying in each shelter, in police stations and other locations.”

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August 24, 2023

WBBM: Library acquires Eastland archive that helps humanize the 1915 maritime disaster

WBBM: Newberry Library acquires Eastland archive that helps humanize the 1915 maritime disaster . “Chicago’s Eastland Disaster killed 844 people in 1915 when a passenger ship rolled over in the Chicago River, and now some of those lost lives are coming into sharper focus. The Newberry Library has acquired the collection of the Eastland Disaster Historical Society.” Please note the second picture in this article includes the deceased body of a child.

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May 11, 2023

City of Chicago: Chicago Launches Recovery Plan Data Transparency Website

City of Chicago: Chicago Launches Recovery Plan Data Transparency Website. “ChiRecoveryPlan.com allows residents to see a comprehensive summary of the Chicago Recovery Plan programs active in their community. At a glance, users can see the number of trees planted nearby, where local businesses have received grants to reactivate vacant storefronts — and how many community members have participated in City youth programs. Residents can also use the site to conduct a deeper dive into how specific programs are serving residents citywide.”

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April 24, 2023

NBC Chicago: Fake Twitter Accounts Impersonating Chicago’s Mayor, City Agencies Falsely Claim LSD Will Close

NBC Chicago: Fake Twitter Accounts Impersonating Chicago’s Mayor, City Agencies Falsely Claim LSD Will Close. “Taking advantage of the social media platform’s removal of verification checkmarks for groups that don’t pay a monthly fee, accounts impersonating the city’s mayor and transportation agency began tweeting messages, including news that part of the city’s highly-trafficked DuSable Lake Shore Drive would be closed starting May 1.”

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March 10, 2023

Chicago Tribune: Thanks to grant and hours of museum volunteer work, old Elgin newspaper photos now available online

Chicago Tribune / Elkin Courier-News: Thanks to grant and hours of museum volunteer work, old Elgin newspaper photos now available online. “Hundreds of old black-and-white photos capturing decades of Elgin’s past are now online for the world to view thanks to the work of Elgin History Museum volunteers and a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Negatives of photos taken by The Courier-News between 1936 and 1994 were donated to the museum in the 1990s, museum curator Beth Nawara said. The images are being digitized so they can be made available electronically.” This project has just started — they’re about 3,000 pictures in to a collection of 100,000 images.

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February 25, 2023

Chicago Sun-Times: Newberry Library online exhibition showcases images from the Great Migration

Chicago Sun-Times: Newberry Library online exhibition showcases images from the Great Migration. “A new chapter in Black American history is unfolding at the Newberry Library, courtesy of a recently acquired glass slides collection highlighting the significance of Chicago and several other Northern cities during the Great Migration in the early 1920s. The Great Migration was the movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the urban Midwest, Northeast and West.”

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January 19, 2023

Chicago Sun-Times: Preserving the legacy of Chicago’s Black social culture

Chicago Sun-Times: Preserving the legacy of Chicago’s Black social culture. “In my high school senior memory book, several pluggers from early 1990s teen parties crowd a plastic sleeve. They are documents of warehouse parties from a time when the West Loop wasn’t the West Loop, and when the South Loop didn’t exist as a moniker. I save everything, which is great because the Chicago Black Social Culture Map (CBSCM) is collecting local artifacts like the ones I have stored in my parents’ basement.”

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January 11, 2023

Chicago Tribune: As Chicago police prepare to relaunch ‘gang database,’ concerns remain the tool could unfairly sweep up many

Chicago Tribune: As Chicago police prepare to relaunch ‘gang database,’ concerns remain the tool could unfairly sweep up many. “Critics remain concerned by the Chicago Police Department’s impending relaunch of its much-criticized ‘gang database,’ a tool intended to identify people with connections to street gangs, even after the process to revamp it was paused last fall at the behest of the city’s new police oversight committee.”

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