Last week, the City Council voted 33-14 to approve an ordinance that would give Chicago Police Department Supt. Larry Snelling the power to renew the city's ShotSpotter contract. However ...

Meantime, some City Council supporters of ShotSpotter announced Tuesday that they had worked with Chicago business leaders to raise $2.5 million to help fund a new gunshot detection system ...

WE SPENT THE DAY in the Chicago City Council meeting ... The plan will return for the next council meeting. And regarding ShotSpotter: There was renewed debate over the gun-detection technology.

CHICAGO - The Chicago City Council voted on Wednesday to keep ShotSpotter, the gunshot detection technology that alerts police to the sound of gunfire. With the contract set to expire on Sunday ...

RELATED: Chicago Residents Question Loss of ShotSpotter: 'It's Very Worrying ... to strip Johnson of that contracting power. The City Council was set to consider yet another similar ordinance ...

speak during a City Council meeting, Oct. 9, 2024, at City Hall. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) Robinson said the search for a ShotSpotter replacement is moving in a “better direction.” ...

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s ... originally on the agenda Wednesday was the bid by half the City Council to save ShotSpotter, the city’s gun detection system, before that meeting ...

Throughout Chicago, the people are raising their voices about a host of issues. We fear those voices are going unheard.

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share Mayor Brandon Johnson must break two campaign promises — by renewing a ShotSpotter contract ... 2025 budget through the City Council, one of Johnson’s most ...

Days after the Oct. 26 shooting of an Orthodox Jewish man in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson was publicly rebuked for issuing ...

Chicago Tribune reporter Karina Atkins ... Scott rightly said during the last City Council debate before ShotSpotter went away, “You can’t put a life over a campaign promise.” ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson's announcement on new measures to close Chicago's nearly $1 billion budget deficit, which could include layoffs, is one of several storylines coming out of City Hall on ...