Chicago Mayor Lightfoot’s $16 billion budget proposal includes more spending on police amid gun violence spike
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's unveiled her 2022 budget proposal on Monday, with includes increased spending on law enforcement amid surging gun violence not seen in decades.
"I know that community safety and thriving communities are at the top of all of our minds wherever you live in Chicago," Lightfoot said in her address to city leaders on Monday.
"Too often, when we talk about community violence, we forget the victims," she added. "We know of them, but they are more than crime statistics. The lives deeply impacted by the violence that once it comes to their doorstep, it lives on in some form forever."
More than 100 former Illinois youth inmates sue state over alleged sexual abuse in detention centers
Dozens more former youth inmates are suing over alleged sexual abuse they say that they endured at Illinois detention centers, according to law officials.