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A classroom at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy of Social Justice in Chicago is seen in September 2020.

Paul Vallas: CPS has failed the city’s youths, and violence has resulted. There is a way forward.

May 24, 2022 at 5:18 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot's push to make small modifications to her curfew rules will do nothing to discourage the gathering of young people en masse or stop flash mobs from threatening...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot joins city and community leaders with an update on public safety at Chicago City Hall on May 16, 2022.

Paul Vallas: Rushing the casino deal is a bad bet for Chicago

May 17, 2022 at 3:32 p.m.

Ald. Brendan Reilly was on target when he said that Mayor Lori Lightfoot's attempt to rush the complex casino deal through the City Council raised the ignominious specter of the...

A Chicago police vehicle outside the Chicago Theatre in the Loop the day after a shooting occurred near the theater, May 2, 2022.

Paul Vallas: It will take proactive policing to defend downtown Chicago

May 9, 2022 at 5:20 p.m.

The economic heart of Chicago is in cardiac arrest as escalating violent crime threatens to turn downtown into a ghost town. Homicides, shootings, sexual assaults, thefts and carjackings are all...

Then-mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot announces the People First Pledge, a series of ethics reforms proposed by mayoral and aldermanic candidates, at City Hall in Chicago on Jan. 8, 2019.

Paul Vallas: The mayor tries to reinvent herself as a reformer

June 14, 2024 at 6:47 p.m.

Three years after blocking ethics reform, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has finally decided to tackle one of the issues she ran on as a candidate. Don't be fooled. The revelations suddenly...

Chicago police Superintendent David Brown, left, congratulates Eric Carter as the new first deputy superintendent during a ceremony on July 15, 2020, at police headquarters.

Paul Vallas: City should purge police brass, including top cop David Brown, and return integrity to promotions

April 18, 2022 at 4:04 p.m.

Chicago police Superintendent David Brown, Deputy Superintendent Eric Carter and the entire senior leadership team at the Chicago Police Department must go. A system that ensures that CPD leadership positions...

Chicago police SWAT team members search a property in the 6300 block of South Bishop Street in Chicago after a police officer was shot and wounded nearby on June 1, 2022.

Paul Vallas: One way Chicago can stem the tide of crime: Support struggling youths with work-study, other efforts

April 7, 2022 at 2:56 p.m.

Tens of thousands of young adults, age 16 and older, are on Chicago's streets with no high school diploma, no job experience and no hope. Many are in some phase...

Chicago police Superintendent David Brown speaks about safety on the CTA during a news conference inside the Chicago Avenue Red Line station on March 9, 2022.

Paul Vallas: Making the CTA safe is critical. Bring on the transit police.

March 29, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.

It's time for Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago police Superintendent David Brown to get serious about crime on the CTA, which has been escalating for the past few years. As...

Rochelle Sykes, the aunt of Demetrius Griffin Jr., 15, who was killed in 2016, at a news conference to demand that the Illinois legislature provide funding for the state's witness protection program at Greater St. John Bible Church in Chicago on March 16, 2022. Sykes said that her nephew's case remains unsolved.

Paul Vallas: A city witness protection program would help Chicago police gain community trust

March 22, 2022 at 4:03 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is finally taking steps to fulfill the promise made by the 2021 SAFE-T Act, the so-called criminal justice reform package, by proposing $20 million to fund the...

A Chicago police vehicle outside the Burberry store on North Michigan Avenue, Feb. 6, 2022, the day after the store was robbed.

Paul Vallas: A perfect storm is destroying Chicago’s economic vitality

March 10, 2022 at 4:31 p.m.

The combined impact of the state and city's punishing COVID-19 mitigations, the degradation of the Chicago Police Department in the midst of violent crime spiking and a dramatic hike in...

Independent contractors hired by Chicago Public Schools test the drinking fountain water for lead levels in 2016 in the Avalon Park neighborhood.

Paul Vallas: Our leaders ignore the real pandemic damaging our children, lead in drinking water

February 28, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

The only thing worse than denying science and inflicting damage on children through closed schools has been ignoring science and doing next to nothing to remove lead from drinking water....

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