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At the Races: Big primaries in the Prairie State - Roll Call

Midterm elections 2026: Here’s what you need to know about the key primary races taking place Tuesday in Illinois.

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Applications now open to serve on civilian police oversight commission

A lengthy list of requirements includes living in the city for the last five years, and not working for CPD, COPA or the Police Board in that time. The deadline to apply is noon on Feb. 7. Out of 14 nominees, the mayor will choose seven.

Chicago Sun-Times

Divide between police and community not as wide as some think, civilian oversight panel’s president says

Anthony Driver, who heads the Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability, said the commonalities he has discovered between police and the public has been the “defining moment” of his 14-month tenure.

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Mayor’s pick for top cop asks for collaboration from community at public forum: ‘We have to be partners in this’

Larry Snelling calls on the public to be partners with the Chicago Police Department in addressing deep-rooted community problems and fighting crime.

Chicago Sun-Times

All three top cop finalists capable of being ‘generational leader’ Chicago needs, search leader says

Anthony Driver Jr., president of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, has a favorite among the three finalists sent to Mayor Brandon Johnson, who has 30 days to decide. But Driver won’t say who it is.

Chicago Sun-Times

Let public safety commission do its job to find best candidates for Chicago’s next police superintendent

A group of City Council members is getting heat — and should — for their letter carping that one member of the Chicago Police Department’s top brass did not get an in-person interview for the superintendent’s job.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago’s top cop search: civilian oversight panel starting in-person interviews

Anthony Driver, president of the Community Commission on Public Safety and Police Accountability, said input from rank-and-file officers at an FOP meeting last week is something former CPD Supt. David Brown never would have allowed.

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53 people applied to be Chicago’s next police superintendent. Fred Waller is not among them.

More than half of the applicants came from people affiliated at one time with CPD. The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability will submit three names to Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson by mid-July.

Chicago Sun-Times

Back-channel search for Chicago’s top cop? Not this time, says president of civilian oversight panel

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson’s transition team members “have not tried to influence our process. They have not tried to submit names,” said Anthony Driver, president of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, which is conducting the search.

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Search for Chicago’s top cop complicated by lobbying campaigns for candidates. ‘It’s not a popularity contest.’

Joe Ferguson, the city’s former inspector general, said the lobbying raises “some unseemly appearances which, given that this is Chicago, should be of concern.”

Chicago Sun-Times

As Chicago’s embattled top cop exits, search for his replacement marks new civilian panel’s first real test

The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability said the incoming mayor won’t have outsized influence in recommending candidates and won’t be able to subvert the selection process.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicagoans prepare to elect police district council members for the first time

CHICAGO — While the nine Chicago mayoral candidates pitch plans to address crime and policing, Chicago voters for the first time in city history will be able to vote for representatives on civilian police oversight councils, part of a growing group of reforms following years of protests over law enforcement…

Chicago Tribune

As Chicago police prepare to relaunch ‘gang database,’ concerns remain the tool could unfairly sweep up many

CHICAGO — Critics remain concerned by the Chicago Police Department’s impending relaunch of its much-criticized “gang database,” a tool intended to identify people with connections to street gangs, even after the process to revamp it was paused last fall at the behest of the city’s new police oversight committee.

Chicago Tribune

Data should be driving Police Department dollars, civilian oversight panel says

“We need to spend better and more strategically,” to cut city’s violence, eliminate “untenable” working conditions for officers, commission’s president says.

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