Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th), vice chair of the council Finance Committee, is open to cutting the Chicago Police Department's budget and has end…
Aaron Gettinger
Reporter
- Bio
Aaron Gettinger, a third-generation newspaperman, studied sociology at Stanford University and the University of Chicago and joined the Herald in 2018.
- Home town
Sullivan, Indiana
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has said that calling a special legislative session on police reform is the prerogative of the General Assembly's leaders. …
Emergency childcare continued through the sharpest shutdown period of the coronavirus pandemic, but offerings have expanded as the city contin…
While many remained closed or only open for takeout, certain Hyde Park restaurants, barbershops, shops and businesses opened with expanded ser…
Thousands peacefully marched for Black lives through Bronzeville to Washington Park on Tuesday as faith leaders and Black elected officials ca…
The November veto session is too long to wait for the state legislature to respond to protests and subsequent civil unrest in Illinois, wrote …
Despite the protests and violence that have wracked the city in recent days, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Tuesday that Chicago will enter Ph…
Speaking in Washington Park after a weekend of protests and violence, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Black state legislators said they would work to r…
A protest that began peacefully in Bronzeville evolved into chaos along 53rd Street on Sunday, as police pepper sprayed and arrested multiple …
Looters targeted strip malls at 51st Street and Cottage Grove Avenue and 47th Street and Lake Park Avenue early Monday morning, as the mayhem …