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Johnson’s lengthy list includes“training and promoting” 200 new detectives and launching a “comprehensive efficiency audit” to identify savings, such as streamlining the number of “non-sergeant” police supervisors.

Voters face a long list of candidates for Chicago mayor, some with vastly different views on public schools, and longstanding history, for better or worse, with the district.

As recent polls show mayoral challenger Paul Vallas surging and U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia fading, Garcia is pushing an attack against Vallas that Mayor Lori Lightfoot has used for weeks: that Vallas is a “fake Democrat” who is, in reality, an anti-choice Republican and a threat to women’s…

The now-retired Chicago cop was named in two legal cases that cost the city more than $5 million. He gave $5,000 to the Vallas campaign.

A spokesperson for House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Jeffries “made clear” to Quigley that term limits prevented him from staying on the panel.

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The congressman said the incumbent mayor has been too combative. “People are tired of the conflict and the bickering and the fighting that they think is representative of her style of government,” Garcia said.

CHICAGO — Chicago’s mayoral hopefuls exchanged personal attacks during a contentious candidate forum Tuesday evening that was repeatedly interrupted by loud protesters.

Fighting for her political life, Mayor Lori Lightfoot called Jesus “Chuy” Garcia the “original defunder” of police and Paul Vallas a resume inflater who takes his marching orders from the Fraternal Order of Police and its “repugnant” president John Catanzara.

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.