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Mayor Laurie Lightfoot will have the opportunity to appoint a fourth member of the Chicago City Council next month, as 12th Ward Ald. George Cardenas has announced his resignation Cardenas is slated to fill a seat on the Cook County Board of Review, the property tax appeals body, after next Tuesday’s election.

Cardenas’ replacement follows three others this year as several aldermen have already left the Council. About a dozen others are not running for re-election.

Meanwhile, US Representative Jesus “Chewy” Garcia took two key steps before announcing a campaign for Chicago mayor this week after polling showed him ahead of Lightfoot, whose 2019 candidacy he endorsed.

Take a look at the 2023 Chicago mayoral race: Who entered, who left, who was undecided.

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More than a year after he received an analysis that raised questions about the effectiveness of the Chicago Police Department’s response and assignments, Superintendent David Brown now calls the study missingand he announced that he plans to seek his own evaluation of the officer’s deployment.

Brown made the remarks last week during his first appearance before the newly formed Public Commission on Police Safety and Accountability, where he faced questions about how the department makes critical decisions about patrol assignments, including whether there is a difference in how Chicago police districts.

After several failed campaigns as a Democrat, former Chicago alderman and attorney Bob Fioretti made his latest attempt to return to the political scene on the Republican side. This is a rematch against Tony Preckwinklethree-term president of the Cook County Council.

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Preckwinkle is considered the frontrunner in the race, with incumbency, fundraising, polling and her leadership of the Cook County Democratic Party on her side. What’s more, a Republican hasn’t chaired the county board since Richard Ogilvie left office in 1969.

Chicago developers worried last year that construction projects would face red tape after city planners added a layer to the approval process. The builders already had to send a whole bunch of officials to several commissions and committees, as well as the city council. Some now had to face the Design Committee, a group of experts who will critique designs and pressure developers to make improvements.

While none of the several dozen projects reviewed by the committee since its first public monthly meeting in August 2021 has begun construction, most have moved steadily toward full City Council approval, with several developers poised to begin construction in the next few months.

Defenseman Justin Fields played well on Sundayalthough in a 49-29 rout of the Dallas Cowboys. The Bears offense also had a good day.

Fields threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, the first time in his career that he had three TDs in one game. His completion percentage of 73.9 was the highest in 18 career starts. His passer rating of 120.0 was a career best and just the second time he topped 100.

A week ago, a mural featuring Kanye West was painted on Lake Street in Fulton Market painted over artist Jason M. Peterson, who created the mural and collaborated with West on the projects. Peterson was tight-lipped about the change, but he told The Tribune reported that Scott Wilson, founder of the design company MINIMAL, which owns the building, asked for something to be done to its north wall.

So Peterson drew a silhouette over Kanye’s part. You’ve heard of it. It made the news last week, and then just as quickly got caught up in the storm of responses to Western anti-Semitism. What you didn’t hear was how Peterson gave his work more edge.