Anne McDermott had braced herself for a big increase in the property taxes on her Near South Side town home, but when she opened the bill last month, she was still taken aback.

She’d figured a boost of maybe $550 on the $4,214 she paid last year. That’s a jump of about 13 percent, the average increase on Chicago property tax bills for 2016. But McDermott’s bill went up by nearly $1,360 — more than 32 percent.

Police brass in recent days stripped three officers of their powers in the wake of a fatal shooting of an unarmed black man suspected of stealing a car and fleeing Thursday, an unusually swift response amid intense scrutiny over police action here.

Police followed a Jaguar convertible they suspected was stolen and attempted to pull it over, according to a statement from the police department after the incident Thursday evening. When the driver refused to stop, sideswiping a police vehicle and another car, two officers opened fire on the man, who was unarmed. In a later foot chase, a third officer also fired on the suspect. He later died from his wounds.

By Saturday, all three officers involved in the shooting were put on administrative duty and stripped of their police powers indefinitely, what Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi described as a “deviation from normal protocol.” In previous instances, officers involved in a lethal action were put on desk duty for 30 days as a “cooling off period,” Mr. Guglielmi said, and allowed to continue police duties afterward.

DuPage and Will County GOP leaders have tapped Downers Grove Republican David Olsen to fill ex-Rep. Ron Sandack’s seat in the Illinois House, and to contest the November general election in his place.

DuPage County GOP Chair Brian Krajewski and Will County GOP Chair Kathy Havel announced that they picked Olsen to temporarily represent the 81st House District after interviewing about a half-dozen candidates over the weekend. The leaders also appointed Olsen to take Sandack’s place on the election ballot.

Bucktown and Wicker Park are two of Chicago’s trendiest neighborhoods, filled with people flocking to independent boutiques, national retail chains and vibrant dining and nightlife options.

But their popularity also has led to an uptick in crime, an alderman says, and put the communities at the center of a debate over whether private security officers should help patrol busy streets, using funds typically reserved for purchases like bike racks and sidewalk planters.

Three of every four property owners in Chicago have been hit with higher property taxes this year, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis shows — often thousands of dollars more and in some cases in the Loop and surrounding hot neighborhoods twice what they were last year.

That’s the result of a perfect storm of higher property assessments from Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios and Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s $318 million tax hike, passed to shore up the city’s shaky finances and boost police and fire pension funds that for years have been shortchanged.

Disregarding railroad crossing lights will come with a heftier fine under a new Illinois law.

The legislation signed into law last week by Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner will double the fines currently in the books. A first offense will cost $500 and each offense after that will be punishable with a $1,000 fine.