Zoning Committee Chair Walter Burnett says he’s enticed by plans for a proposed $7 billion mixed-use development that would transform a sea of United Center parking lots into a thriving new neighborhood, but wants to know more about its taxpayer-funded infrastructure improvements — including the potential for a new Pink Line station.

The zoning application filed by the Wirtz and Reinsdorf families that built and jointly own the United Center makes no mention of a new CTA station that developers believe is needed to access the planned residential and entertainment district and minimize the need for parking.

The police radio crackled with a report of six gunshots near a busy corner in Humboldt Park.

In a city that has struggled more than most to solve serious crimes, this summer 2023 shooting offered detectives an immediate advantage. At that corner, police had long ago mounted one of thousands of sophisticated surveillance cameras, the kind that could rotate around a 360-degree view, or zoom in to see activity up to four blocks away.

The Richards-Wilcox company of Aurora has been in business for 144 years, outlasting many sheet-metal businesses that once operated in the Fox Valley. So it must be doing something right.

But President Robert McMurtry knows that resting on one’s laurels is not the way to stay in business.

One year ago, Teutopolis was evacuated. Now, a year later, they are looking back on the chaotic and tragic weekend.

Families had to rush out on a moment’s notice, as an anhydrous ammonia cloud leaking from a nearby crashed tanker truck moved to the city. Five people, including two children, died.