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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— Thursday night belongs to Chicago. The Bears are home at Soldier Field, and the New England Patriots are rolling into town for a Week 7 heavyweight bout under the lights.
Kickoff is 8:15 p.m. Eastern — that’s 7:15 p.m. Chicago time — with the game on Amazon Prime Video nationally and FOX 32 carrying it here in the Chicago market. Al Michaels has the play-by-play, Kirk Herbstreit is on analysis, and Kaylee Hartung reports from the sideline.
This one has storylines for days. Caleb Williams just returned from a hamstring injury that kept him out three games and got the Bears back in the win column against Atlanta. Across the field, Drake Maye is playing like an MVP candidate, with the Patriots winners of three straight after upsetting Buffalo and handling the Jets and Raiders.
It’s the second meeting of the first and third overall picks of the 2024 draft — and the last time they met, as rookies, Maye’s Patriots ground out a forgettable 19-3 win. Williams will be out to return the favor.
And there’s heart in this one too: it’s the Bears’ first game at Soldier Field since the franchise — and the city — lost Mike Ditka, the legendary coach of the famed ’85 team, earlier this month. Expect the tributes, and expect a team playing for more than a win.
The Patriots will be shorthanded up front, with linemen Alijah Vera-Tucker and Ben Brown ruled out and cornerback Carlton Davis III sidelined again. If Chicago’s pass rush eats early, this could turn into a night the lakefront remembers.
Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily for the fallout.
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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY NEWS)— Nu Soul Super Producer Amir “King Seven” Shakur is building the band — and he’s building it in Chicago.
In a public call issued this week, Shakur announced he is assembling The LifeTones Band — a premier live collective blending inspirational hip-hop, cool jazz, soul, and steppers vibes — to carry his PUSH Music sound, Progressive Urban Soul Hip-Hop, from the studio to the stage.
The search is on for dedicated, passionate musicians to fill five chairs: brass and woodwinds (saxophone and trumpet), strings (bass, cello, and violin), keyboards and piano, drums and percussion, and background vocalists. “We’re creating dynamic, uplifted soundscapes and powerful live experiences,” the announcement reads, calling for professionalism, a strong work ethic, improvisation, groove, and stage presence.
The LifeTones are the live engine behind Shakur’s growing music slate, led by the forthcoming single “The Midnight Pocket” by Amir “King Seven” Shakur and the Lifetones, coming soon on King 7 Records.
Musicians in Chicago and the surrounding areas can apply by direct message or by emailing amirshakurspeaks@gmail.com with a link to a reel or portfolio. Let’s make history together.
Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily News for updates on the band, the single, and the first live dates.
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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— Reports of shots fired outside the Kluczynski Federal Building in the Loop drew a swarm of Chicago police and federal agents Tuesday morning, shutting down the courtyard at one of downtown’s most heavily secured buildings.
Chicago police and Homeland Security vehicles lined up outside the building on Clark Street, and investigators stretched yellow and red police tape across the courtyard in front of the federal building. At least three evidence markers were visible near the entrance to what appeared to be a parking garage, and investigators could be seen working around a vehicle and near a bag.
Traffic kept moving on Clark Street, though police vehicles took over the first two lanes. By mid-morning, authorities had still not confirmed whether a shooting actually took place — and both Chicago police and Homeland Security were being pressed for answers.
The building at 230 South Dearborn houses federal offices and courts in the heart of the Loop, a block that sees thousands of workers and pedestrians on any given day. Any gunfire near it triggers a full-force response — and that’s exactly what happened.
Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily as details come in.
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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— They spent the morning packing meals for families in need. Hours later, they were the ones bleeding on the sidewalk.
Three members of New Life Centers — two staff members and a peacekeeper — were wounded in a mass shooting last Friday outside the organization’s offices near West 26th Street and South Pulaski Road in Little Village. Police say four men were leaving a building in the 4000 block of West 26th when a white sedan pulled up and someone inside opened fire. The shooter fled south on Pulaski Road.
All three victims are stable and expected to recover.
New Life Centers has spent more than two decades working with young people and families in some of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods. The peacekeeper role exists for exactly this: to stand between the block and the bullet.
“We’re so grateful to God that none of the bullets hit vital organs,” Pastor Mark Jobe told the community in a message, asking people to pray for the victims’ recovery and for peace in Chicago. “Our team is recovering.”
No arrests have been announced. But the community isn’t waiting on police to answer — local leaders are planning a peace march in response to the violence.
Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily as the march takes shape.
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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— Today is budget day at City Hall — and Mayor Brandon Johnson is walking into the City Council chamber with the one tax aldermen told him not to bring.
Johnson delivers his 2027 budget address today, laying out a $17.6 billion spending plan built around a revived corporate head tax — this time rebranded as the “Equitable Employer Tax.” The proposal would charge $25 a month per employee for businesses with more than 125 workers, generating a projected $101 million a year. Only about 2.8% of registered corporations would pay it, per the mayor’s office, and employers in socio-economically disadvantaged census tracts could apply for a full rebate.
He’s also pushing a third increase in the tax on equipment rentals and cloud computing — already the highest in the nation — and nearly doubling the sports betting tax from 10.25% to 20%.
Here’s the problem: 29 aldermen drew a line in the sand last month — no property tax hike, no head tax, no counting on Springfield money that doesn’t exist yet. Johnson is following two of those three. The head tax, his opponents have declared dead on arrival.
“We’re losing our democracy,” Johnson said this month, pointing to corporations he says are making more money than ever while working people stand in food lines. His question to the council: “Will the corporate-aligned caucus have the collective courage to choose the interests and priorities of Chicagoans?”
The $882.4 million gap for 2027 is real, and every seat in that chamber is on the ballot next year. This fight just became the re-election campaign.
Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily as the council reacts.
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SENATOBIA, Miss. — The pressure is building, and now the nation’s oldest civil rights legal organization is standing in the room.
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has issued a formal statement calling for justice in the police killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley and demanding the release of “any available body-worn camera and surveillance footage” from the June 14, 2026 shooting in a Senatobia Walmart parking lot.
“Our hearts go out to the family of Kohen Wiley following this unconscionable loss,” said Jin Hee Lee, LDF’s Director of Strategic Initiatives. “We firmly echo the increasingly urgent calls for justice and transparency. A child was taken from his family through brutal police violence, and his family and the larger community deserve answers.”
The statement lands one day after Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced her office had found the shooting “justified” — and one day after Amir Shakur, Samaria Rice of the Tamir Rice Foundation, Rodney Floyd of the Justice for George Floyd Committee, and Freedom First International filed an emergency media public-records request demanding ALL of the footage — bodycam, dashcam, and Walmart surveillance — with a statutory response deadline of Thursday, October 29.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety has confirmed to the Mississippi Free Press that surveillance footage “will be released to media organizations in short order via public records requests.”
Read that carefully. “Short order” is not a date. And surveillance footage alone is not all of it — it is not the bodycam, and it is not the dashcam. The coalition’s filing demands every angle, unredacted, by October 29.
The family’s attorney, Ben Crump, has made the same demand in plain terms: “If the footage supports the state’s decision, release it.”
Sgt. Hunter Foster, the officer identified as the subject of the investigation, remains on administrative leave. Neither Kohen’s mother, Vellesiya Wiley, nor Latoya Ferrell has ever been charged with a crime.
The clock is running. Nine days remain. Release the tape.
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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— The message from Amir Shakur and Samaria Rice to the City of Senatobia is simple, and it comes with a deadline: you have seven days to release the video. One day after Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch declared the police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley “justified,” Shakur and Rice — joined by Rodney Floyd, brother of George Floyd and Chairman of the Justice for George Floyd Committee, The Tamir Rice Foundation, and Freedom First International — filed an expedited media public records request demanding the release of ALL body-worn camera, dashboard camera, and surveillance footage from the June 14, 2026 shooting, so the public can see for itself what happened and a real investigation can begin.
Here’s what the state wants you to accept on faith. On June 14, Senatobia police answered a shoplifting call at a Walmart — a call alleging a pack of diapers had been taken. Kohen’s mother, Vellesiya Wiley, and Latoya Ferrell left the store with the baby, got into their car, and began to leave. Officers drew their weapons. By the family’s account, the mother lifted her son up to show the officers a child was in that car. An officer fired into the vehicle anyway. Kohen, one year old, was killed in his mother’s arms. Ferrell was wounded. Neither woman has been charged with shoplifting or any other crime.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation says the car drove toward officers. The mother says that’s not true. And here is the part that should outrage every American: to this day, the state has released NONE of the video — not the bodycam, not the dashcam, not the Walmart parking lot surveillance that would settle the question in seconds.
So the coalition’s request goes straight at the evidence: every camera angle, the 911 calls, the radio transmissions, the incident reports, the use-of-force records. And it carries a formal spoliation warning — a legal notice ordering the City of Senatobia, its police department, the MBI, and the Attorney General’s office to preserve every file, every audit trail, every byte of metadata. Do not delete. Do not overwrite. Do not “rotate” anything into oblivion.
Mississippi law, Miss. Code Ann. § 25-61-5, gives the agencies seven working days to respond. The deadline is October 29, 2026.
Samaria Rice knows exactly what it means when officials ask a grieving family to wait and trust. She has lived it since 2014, when Cleveland police killed her 12-year-old son, Tamir. Now she stands with Kohen’s family, making the same demand she has made for over a decade: show the people what happened.
And Rodney Floyd knows that same road. His brother, George Floyd, was murdered by Minneapolis police in 2020, and as Chairman of the Justice for George Floyd Committee he has carried the demand for accountability across this country ever since. Now the Floyd family stands with Kohen’s family in Senatobia — two families, one demand: release the footage.
The Attorney General has closed her review. But a ruling without the video is just a press release. The tape exists. The law is clear. Release it.
Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily News as this story develops. Media and community tips on this case: amirshakurspeaks@gmail.com.
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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— Chance the Rapper just won another round against the man who once ran his business.
A Cook County judge ruled Tuesday that former manager Pat Corcoran breached his fiduciary duty to Chance in the rapper’s merchandise business — and the price of that breach could run up to $1.5 million in forfeited fees.
Judge James E. Hanlon Jr. found after a bench trial that Corcoran, through his company Pat the Manager LLC, put his own pockets first. The judge ordered Corcoran to forfeit his 15% management cut on merch for the covered period and hand over undisclosed commissions from vendors — money Chance’s team calls “kickbacks,” estimating up to $1.5 million.
The court also found breaches of the duty of loyalty and the duty of candor, and ordered Corcoran to transfer ChanceRaps.com to Chance within 14 days — the judge found Corcoran registered the domain in his own name back in 2013. Hanlon questioned Corcoran’s credibility, saying he “changed with the audience” and had “a habit of saying whatever the moment requires.”
But Chance didn’t get everything he asked for. The judge denied punitive damages and declined the full $10 million Chance sought, crediting Corcoran’s “years of valuable work.”
It follows a March jury verdict that threw out Corcoran’s own $3 million lawsuit against Chance, finding Corcoran had breached their contract.
“I’m grateful to finally close this chapter of my life and can’t wait to eventually tell my side of the story,” Chance said. “I’m thankful to the courts and, more importantly, to God for remaining faithful.”
Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily for more on Chicago’s own.
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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— Chicago sold a man’s car over $524.60 in parking tickets — and left the debt on his books too. Now the Supreme Court has declined to step in, but two justices from opposite ends of the bench are sounding the alarm.
On Oct. 19, the Supreme Court declined to hear O’Donnell v. City of Chicago — the case of Ryan O’Donnell, whose Toyota the city sold after he failed to pay $524.60 in parking tickets, without clearing his debt or giving him any of the proceeds. The city also seized Michael Goree’s Chevrolet because a co-signer of his car loan owed ticket debt on a different car.
Lower courts ruled against the two men, who filed a class-action suit. The Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the city’s rules serve a punitive purpose — a legitimate extension of police enforcement power.
But Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, wrote that she has “serious concerns” about that conclusion. The unusual alliance — the court’s liberal firebrand and its staunchest conservative — signals this Takings Clause fight is far from over. Sotomayor agreed the court shouldn’t take the case now, before more lower courts weigh in, but added: “I again encourage courts considering this issue to take care that due deference to state police powers does not eclipse constitutional rights.”
The men’s lawyers argue the 7th Circuit’s ruling clashes with the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Tyler v. Hennepin County: if a house is sold to pay off tax debt, the government can’t keep the surplus.
Under Chicago’s law, the city can seize any vehicle from an owner with three unpaid tickets — or two in one year. If the owner can’t pay the tickets plus the cost of towing and storing the car, the city sells it.
Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily as the constitutional fight continues.
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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— A federal judge just cracked the door open — and hundreds of detained immigrants in the Chicago area could walk through it this week.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings signaled at a hearing Wednesday that he will order the release on bail of 13 people detained during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, ruling under a 2022 consent decree that limits how ICE can make so-called warrantless arrests.
But that’s only the start. Cummings gave government attorneys a Friday deadline to comb through a list of 615 people held in county jails and federal facilities nationwide and identify who qualifies for alternatives to detention — like an ankle monitor — under the decree. He said he’d issue the release order next week, and in the meantime paused deportation proceedings for people who might qualify.
Attorneys for the detainees called it a win. “All of the tactics of ICE have been unlawful in the vast majority of arrests,” said Mark Fleming of the Chicago-based National Immigrant Justice Center.
They’re racing the clock. More than 3,300 people have been arrested in Chicago and the suburbs since “Operation Midway Blitz” began in September — and attorneys say many have already been deported with no access to lawyers and no understanding of their situations.
The Justice Department pushed back. Attorney Will Weiland told the judge at least 12 people on the list were “high risk” and shouldn’t be released into communities. “Nothing has been easy with this case your honor,” he said.
Cummings, who previously found that ICE violated the consent decree, listed arrests made since the crackdown began — people grabbed at work, out walking, even pulling through a fast-food drive-thru lane. “It also seems highly unlikely to me that any of these foreign nationals … fall into the category of what ICE has called the ‘worst of the worst,'” he said.
Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily as this courtroom battle unfolds.
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