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BREAKING THE CULTURE OF SILENCE: Urban Report Takes On Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant Over Harassment Allegations

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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— Friday night, “Amir Shakur Speaks: The Urban Report” turned its cameras on Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant, airing an “After Hours” panel on alleged workplace harassment and what the broadcast calls the fight for Black worker equity.

The episode, titled “Breaking The Culture of Silence at Ford,” featured former Ford worker and whistleblower Tashay Myrick — identified on the broadcast as Illinois President of NABD — alongside panelists Tracy Happybnme Potter, Talia Pippion, and Chamair Jenkins.

According to the broadcast, Ford has paid out “$30M+ in settlements” connected to workplace claims, yet in the panel’s words, “nothing changed.” The discussion framed the issue as a culture of silence inside the plant — and a call for workers to speak out.

Workplace allegations at the Chicago Assembly Plant are not new, but Friday’s broadcast put them back in the spotlight, with Myrick urging accountability and the panel demanding justice for workers.

Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily for continuing coverage.

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Sox Blow Another Clincher: Guardians Win 9-5, Force Winner-Take-All Game 5 Saturday in Cleveland

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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— Not like this. Not again.

The Chicago White Sox blew their second straight chance to clinch Thursday night, falling 9-5 to the Cleveland Guardians at Rate Field. The AL Division Series is going the distance — a winner-take-all Game 5 on Saturday in Cleveland, with the Tampa Bay Rays waiting in the AL Championship Series.

Chicago jumped out 2-0 in the third and the place was buzzing. Then the sixth inning happened. Cleveland sent 10 batters to the plate and eight straight reached — five hits, two walks and a hit batter — on their way to a six-run frame that broke the game open. Patrick Bailey’s go-ahead single started the avalanche, and Jo Adell’s two-run single off Grant Taylor finished it. Taylor, the Sox’s bullpen savior in Games 1 and 2, faced six batters and retired none.

Jose Ramirez — quiet all series, playing through an unhealed left wrist — homered and drove in three. Bailey homered too and drove in two. Guardians pitchers racked up 12 strikeouts while Sox pitchers handed out seven walks.

Miguel Vargas gave the South Side a flicker with a solo homer off closer Cade Smith in the ninth. Then Cleveland turned to Gavin Williams — their presumed Game 5 starter — to slam the door with the tying run on deck.

So the drought talk continues: the Sox have now missed two straight nights to clinch a postseason series at home for the first time since 1906. Saturday in Cleveland, it all comes down to one game.

Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily for postseason coverage.

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CTA Worker Stabbed to Death at Damen Green Line Station; Suspect on the Run

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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— A CTA employee was stabbed to death Thursday afternoon at a West Side Green Line station, and the suspect is still out there.

The stabbing happened around 3 p.m. at the Damen Green Line station, in the 2000 block of West Lake Street. Chicago police say a male suspect approached the CTA employee — a 41-year-old man — and got into a verbal altercation with him in the station’s mezzanine area. The argument escalated, and the suspect pulled out a sharp object and stabbed the employee in the neck. The suspect fled west from the station.

Officers found the employee unresponsive in a nearby room. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Authorities have not released the employee’s identity, what sparked the altercation, or any description of the suspect. Chicago police and the CTA were expected to brief the media at a 6 p.m. Thursday news conference.

Transit violence keeps hitting the front page. A worker on the job, in broad daylight, in a station packed with cameras and passengers — and somebody walked away.

Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily for updates on this developing story.

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Watchdog Reopens Probe of Johnson-Backed School Board Candidate as Nov. 3 Race Tightens

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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— Chicago’s first-ever elected school board president race just got a late-breaking twist — and Mayor Brandon Johnson isn’t flinching.

The CPS watchdog has reopened an inquiry into Hilario Dominguez, the Chicago Teachers Union-backed candidate for school board president, over decade-old allegations from a former student. The reopening lands despite an email from an OIG assistant inspector general telling Dominguez the office had issued a June 26 “Not Substantiated” report, finding insufficient evidence of sexual misconduct toward that student or any other student or minor.

Johnson, who campaigned alongside Dominguez on Saturday, stood by him anyway. The mayor said candidates should be held to a higher standard — and called on the watchdog to complete its review “with great urgency.”

The field narrowed last week when former board vice president Sendhil Revuluri dropped out on Sept. 30, saying the gusher of special-interest cash had crowded out regular Chicagoans. That leaves a three-way fight: Dominguez, current board member Jessica Biggs (backed by SEIU Local 73 and business leaders), and prominent defense attorney Victor Henderson.

This isn’t a ceremonial seat. Voters pick all 20 board members and the president citywide on Nov. 3 — the first time in city history — and the president decides what makes it onto the monthly meeting agenda.

Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily as this race unfolds.

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Denied at the Doorstep: Guardians Crush White Sox 9-3, Force Decisive Game 4 Tonight

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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— The celebration is on hold. The South Side’s October party just got crashed.

The Cleveland Guardians avoided elimination Wednesday night, pounding the Chicago White Sox 9-3 in Game 3 of the AL Division Series at Rate Field to cut Chicago’s series lead to 2-1 and force a Game 4 tonight.

Jose Ramirez wrote the script. Hitless in the series and playing through an unhealed left wrist, Cleveland’s star walked and scored in a four-run third inning that Jo Adell capped with a bases-clearing triple. Ramirez doubled in the fifth, stole third and scored on a groundout, then made a diving stop at third with the bases loaded in the sixth to preserve a two-run lead. His two-run triple in the eighth buried the Sox for good.

Cleveland’s seven pitchers combined for 19 strikeouts — and the Guardians hit two postseason triples in a game for the first time in franchise history. The Guardians piled up 11 hits, more than their total from the first two games combined.

The Sox fanned 19 times and went 2-for-11 with runners in scoring position. Kyle Teel’s first-inning RBI double gave Chicago an early 1-0 lead, and Foster Griffin set a franchise reliever record with seven strikeouts in 2 2/3 innings — but it wasn’t enough. The loss ended Chicago’s four-game postseason winning streak and denied the Sox a chance to clinch their first postseason series at home since 1906 in front of 40,590 fans dressed in black.

“100% confidence,” manager Will Venable said after the game. “The story of our group is being able to bounce back.”

Game 4 is tonight at Rate Field. One win, and the Sox still dance. Lose, and it’s winner-take-all Game 5.

Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily for postseason coverage.

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Missing in Chicago: Palatine Woman Vanished Sept. 30 — Police Report Possible Sightings Downtown and on the West Side

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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— A Palatine family’s nightmare is now in its second week, and Chicago is where the search is focused.

Alyssa Smith, 24, a restaurant worker from Palatine, vanished during a trip to Chicago with her boyfriend, according to her family. She was reported missing on Sept. 30 — three days after she last had contact with her mother, Rebecca Smith. Smith was last seen somewhere in the city’s 11th police district, described in a missing-person appeal as “somewhere between Cicero, Pulaski and Madison.” She has a Pennywise clown tattoo on her shoulder, and at the time of her disappearance was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, light khaki pants and white Adidas shoes.

Her family says Smith’s boyfriend, Jacob Ray Caso, a Crystal Lake tattoo artist, returned home without her on Oct. 1 and has been searching the area where she was last seen. Caso has posted desperate appeals online. “Time to come home b,” he wrote in a Facebook post Friday. “No one is mad at you.”

Palatine police say they’ve received reports that Smith may have been spotted in Grant Park downtown and on the West Side. Family posters cite anonymous tips that she has been seen alive, and mention a “possible black eye” — something police have not confirmed.

The circumstances behind her disappearance remain unclear. A family searching, a city this big, and more questions than answers. If you know anything about where Alyssa Smith is, say something.

Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily for updates on this developing story.

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Carrot and Stick: Chicago Ramps Up Debt Collection While Offering Relief as Budget Deadline Looms

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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— The city is coming to collect — and this time, it says it’s bringing a helping hand too.

As a December budget deadline looms, the Johnson administration is going in depth on its two-track plan: ramping up collection of money owed to the city while offering debt relief to residents who can’t pay their bills.

City Comptroller Michael Belsky says a large chunk of unpaid vehicle debt dates back to 2021, when the city took what he called a more compassionate approach to fines and fees during COVID. Now the tab is being called in: the city says it has collected 75 percent of outstanding debt over the last three years, and collection efforts are up 15 percent year over year since Mayor Brandon Johnson took office. Thirteen new tax auditors have been brought on to find delinquent entities — including large corporations — and bring missing revenue back into the city.

But Belsky says the administration is also giving struggling residents a way back. The Utility Billing Relief program offers penalty relief, rate reduction and debt forgiveness on water and sewer bills — 35,200 households have enrolled, 90 percent completed their payment plans, and $52 million has come back in. The Clear Path Relief program lets low-income drivers pay off only the original fine amount for tickets issued in the last three years, with all older debt waived — 106,500 residents have participated since 2022, bringing back $51 million.

“If it is making a choice between food and medicine or paying vehicle debt, the Johnson administration will always side with the health and safety of our citizens,” Belsky told FOX32 Chicago.

Collect from the corporations, give the people a path. That’s the pitch. Chicago’s budget gap will be the test.

Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily as the budget fight unfolds.

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Marathon Week Is Here: 55,000+ Runners, a Million Spectators, and Sunday’s 48th Chicago Marathon

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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— Lace up, Chicago. Marathon week starts today, and by Sunday this city turns into one giant block party with a 26.2-mile excuse.

The 48th Bank of America Chicago Marathon takes over the streets Sunday, Oct. 11, starting and finishing in Grant Park. More than 55,000 runners are expected at the start line — from a record pool of over 200,000 applicants — with roughly 53,000 projected to cross the finish. More than a million spectators will pack the course across 29 neighborhoods.

The race week party is already rolling: Tracksmith opens at the Chicago Athletic Association at noon today, Peace Runners 773 holds its One Chicago Dinner on the West Side tonight, and the official expo opens Thursday at McCormick Place. Pop-ups, shakeout runs, cheer zones and afterparties run through Tuesday, Oct. 13.

And the racing itself could be electric. Jacob Kiplimo returns to defend his men’s title with a personal best seven seconds under the course record. Brigid Kosgei makes her first Chicago start since her 2019 world record. And Americans Charles Hicks and Clayton Young are chasing Conner Mantz’s American record on a course built for speed.

Can’t make the course? NBC 5 Chicago and Telemundo carry the race live from 7 to 11 a.m. CT, with Peacock and Roku streaming nationwide. The pros go off at 7:30 a.m. sharp.

Race-day drivers, you’ve been warned: surface streets along the 26.2-mile loop close from about 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. The CTA ‘L’ rides above and below the course — take the train.

Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily for marathon coverage all week.

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8 South Side Businesses Burglarized in Weekend Smash-and-Grabs: ‘We’re Tired of Sweeping Up Glass’

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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— Eight South Side storefronts are sweeping up glass this morning after a weekend of smash-and-grab burglaries, and business owners say they’re fed up.

Chicago police are investigating break-ins at five businesses along 75th Street in the 200 to 500 blocks early Monday morning — roughly between 3:30 and 5 a.m. Among the targets: Soul Veg City, Nadia’s Beauty Salon, Paris Cleaners and Flowers First. Cash registers were stolen from at least three of them. At Soul Veg City, surveillance video shows a suspect breaking in, grabbing the cash register — and a slice of cake — before running east on 75th Street. At Nadia’s, surveillance images captured one of the suspects, though the owner says the thieves left empty-handed, leaving behind damage and a mess.

The weekend started worse for Bronzeville. Three businesses along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive — Bronzeville Soul, Hair Experts Bronzeville and Peach’s Restaurant — were hit within a few hours early Sunday. Bronzeville Soul owner Mario Coleman says the thieves stole the register, wrecked the point-of-sale system and damaged food. It was the second burglary at his shop in about a year. At Hair Experts, owner Nicholas Byrd says burglars broke through the glass, ransacked the shop and stole expensive equipment. Peach’s Restaurant was damaged badly enough to stay closed for days.

Ald. William Hall (6th) called an emergency meeting for 75th Street business owners Tuesday morning at Soul Veg City, with Chicago police and local Special Service Area partners invited. Owners say they want more police presence — and are talking about bars on windows and doors and more security officers through the SSA.

No arrests have been announced. Area Two detectives are investigating.

Eight businesses, one weekend, zero answers. South Side owners build community block by block — the least the city can do is protect the block.

Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily for updates on this developing story.

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Trump to Johnson and Pritzker: Invite Federal Help and I’ll ‘Extinguish’ Chicago Crime — ‘Time Is of the Essence’

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CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— President Donald Trump is back at it with Chicago — this time with an offer, a warning, and a flourish.

On Tuesday, Trump posted on Truth Social that “Chicago is suffering an unprecedented and particularly violent crime wave that is getting worse by the day,” and said the federal government could “extinguish it quickly and completely” — but only if Mayor Brandon Johnson or Gov. JB Pritzker asks. “What is wrong with them? Why aren’t they asking?” he wrote. “TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!”

Trump has already played this card elsewhere: he deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and sent personnel to Memphis for the same stated purpose.

Here’s the rub. Chicago Tribune data shows the city’s homicide numbers are actually down slightly — 328 homicide victims through Oct. 3, five fewer than the same period in 2025. Homicides have declined every year from 2022 through 2025 after the pandemic-era spike. Most of this year’s victims were killed by gunfire, and the Austin neighborhood leads the city with 28.

Johnson has an answer ready. Back in July, he told Trump to stop offering troops and start investing: put money into affordable housing and the cost of living, and violence would go down. Pritzker, for his part, has said there is no emergency that justifies federalizing the Guard or sending active-duty troops into Illinois, and has pointed to state and local police as the ones doing the daily work.

An offer on the table, a refusal before it’s even made, and a city caught in the middle. Whether this ends as cooperation or a courtroom battle is the question.

Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily as this fight unfolds.

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