Citadel CEO Ken Griffin revealed on Tuesday that he moved from <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/illinois?_gl=1*20224c*_ga*OTAwNTI1NTYwLjE2MTM5NzIxMzI.*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTY2Mzg1MjcxNy4xMjY4LjEuMTY2Mzg1NDU4Mi42MC4wLjA." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illinois</a> to <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/florida?_gl=1*20224c*_ga*OTAwNTI1NTYwLjE2MTM5NzIxMzI.*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTY2Mzg1MjcxNy4xMjY4LjEuMTY2Mzg1NDU4Mi42MC4wLjA." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> after a senior colleague was robbed at gunpoint during a coffee run in <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/chicago?_gl=1*hcs7ku*_ga*OTAwNTI1NTYwLjE2MTM5NzIxMzI.*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTY2Mzg1MjcxNy4xMjY4LjEuMTY2Mzg1NTQwMC42MC4wLjA." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago</a>, while another was attacked without provocation by a “random lunatic.”
Griffin — whose $30 billion net worth places him among the 50 richest men on the planet, according to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/">data</a> from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — began buying property and moving his personal fortune to <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/miami">Miami</a> after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wealthiest-man-in-illinois-moves-his-business-from-chicago-to-miami-amid-feud-with-democratic-leadership">voicing concerns</a> about the lackluster business environment in Chicago. He later announced that Citadel, which manages $57 billion in assets, would likewise relocate to Florida.
During an <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-09-20/citadel-s-ken-griffin-brings-billions-to-make-miami-wall-street-south?leadSource=uverify%20wall">interview</a> with Bloomberg, Griffin said he finally decided to leave Chicago after two of his colleagues were assaulted in the Windy City. The former was robbed after a person put “a gun to his head” during a coffee run, and another was confronted by “some random lunatic just trying to punch him in the head” while he was waiting for a car.
Griffin donated more than $600 million to local nonprofits over the course of two decades.
Violent crime in the Windy City has indeed been on the rise in recent years. Under the leadership of Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the city <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lightfoots-chicago-records-797-homicides-in-2021-most-among-u-s-cities">recorded 797 homicides</a> in 2021 — the highest of any American metropolis.
Meanwhile, Griffin intends to turn Miami into “Wall Street South” — transforming the local economy as other finance professionals embrace the robust business climate fostered by the state government of Florida.
“We’re not sort of in — we’re all in,” Griffin asserted.
The executive, who plans to personally pitch the city of Miami to other large corporations, added that Citadel would invest as much as $1 billion in its new headquarters. “I&#8217;m going to work to create a building that&#8217;s iconic in Miami,” Griffin said. “If it takes longer to fill the building, so be it. It&#8217;s more important to me to create the right environment to draw human capital that drives Citadel.”
Citadel has already spent more than $600 million on an empty lot that will house the new headquarters, as well as a temporary office building, an apartment building, and more than 100,000 square feet of office leases from which employees will work until the new headquarters is completed, according to a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kodBODk_PL8">report</a> from CNBC. In a personal capacity, Griffin has spent $175 million on five acres of property in southern Florida, on which he plans to tear down the existing house and build a new one. He has also spent $450 million on land for a new estate north of Palm Beach — a property larger than Mar-a-Lago, the home of former President Donald Trump.
The real estate spending spree occurred as Griffin sold his two penthouses in Chicago. Beyond his real estate portfolio, Griffin plans to support philanthropic efforts in the Sunshine State — particularly those related to education.
Griffin is an ardent supporter of Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who he would support over Trump in a potential 2024 contest. The financier said he “will definitively be involved in the presidential race” and would consider serving leading the Treasury Department in a DeSantis administration — a position he declined when approached by Trump officials.

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Illinois’ Former Wealthiest Man Reveals The Breaking Points That Prompted His Move To Florida

Illinois' Former Wealthiest Man Moved To Miami After Two Colleagues Were Robbed, Assaulted In Chicago

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago">Chicago</a> Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot is taking heat after she bussed dozens of migrants out of her city and housed them in a hotel in a smaller suburb without warning.
Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso, a Republican, accused Lightfoot of hypocrisy on Saturday. Grasso said Lightfoot bussed migrants into his town while complaining about similar behavior by Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R).
“We’re more than happy for people to find freedom, it is hypocrisy by the mayor of Chicago to complain about the governor of Texas – I do agree with what he’s doing – the city of Chicago says it’s going to be a sanctuary city which I oppose – but there must be vacant hotel rooms in Chicago. This is hundreds of people in a city of millions. Why are they sending them out to the Republican suburbs? You have to wonder,” Grasso told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-mayor-blasts-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoots-hypocrisy-migrants-shipped-republican-suburb">Fox News</a>.
Some migrants bussed to Chicago, a so-called “sanctuary city,” from Texas are being put up at a Hampton Inn in Burr Ridge that was also used to house refugees from Afghanistan. The U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan last year sparked a humanitarian crisis after the Afghan government fell to the Taliban.
Abbott added Chicago to his list of cities receiving volunteer migrants that cross into the state over the U.S. southern border. The immigrants claim asylum and are released into the U.S. while they await their scheduled immigration court hearing.
Lightfoot <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-lashes-out-texas-gov-abbott-after-50-more-migrants-bussed-chicago">slammed</a> Abbott in a press conference last week: “There could be a level of coordination and cooperation, but he chooses to do none of those things. Instead, he chooses to send human beings across the country to an uncertain destination. That’s unacceptable.”
Grasso said that his community’s previous generosity toward the refugees in Afghanistan “does not give carte blanche to the governor or the mayor to send a couple of busloads of migrants to our village without telling us.”
“The border situation on the southern border is a totally different situation than Afghan refugees. It’s total arrogance for the state to assume they can send migrants to the suburbs around Chicago,” Grasso told Fox News.
A spokesman for Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) told a local Chicago outlet, <a href="https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/chicago-welcomes-texas-migrants-then-sends-them-to-suburbs/">WGN9</a>, that the Burr Ridge Hampton Inn is being used to house the migrants under a previous arrangement between the hotel and state to house refugees from Afghanistan. The migrants will be at the Hampton Inn for at least 30 days after arriving.
“The state has a prior relationship with the hotel being used in the suburbs and their staff has done amazing work welcoming refugees and asylum seekers before, so it is interesting that local officials are choosing this specific instance to gripe to the press about this specific group of asylum seekers that consists of about 30 families,&#8221; said Jordan Abudayyeh, a spokesperson for Gov. Pritzker. &#8220;Gov. Pritzker has made it clear that Illinois is a welcoming state and xenophobia has no home here.”
Abbott began bussing volunteer migrants into Chicago as part of his growing campaign to pressure the Biden administration to crack down on a flood of migrants crossing illegally into the United States from Mexico. Abbott’s office <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/operation-lone-star-buses-more-than-10000-migrants-to-sanctuary-cities">reported</a> that since Wednesday, Texas had bussed 300 migrants into Chicago. Thousands more migrants have been bussed to New York City and Washington, D.C.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Blasted Over ‘Hypocrisy’ After Settling Dozens Of Migrants In GOP Suburb

Lori Lightfoot Blasted For ‘Hypocrisy’ After Settling Dozens Of Migrants In GOP-Controlled Chicago Suburb

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youll-never-see-this-again-bizarre-spectacular-play-makes-baseball-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnesota Twins</a> catcher Gary Sanchez missed by mere inches getting clocked in the head by a teammate’s swing of the bat Sunday in a shocking moment caught on video.
Sanchez was walking toward his team’s dugout and passing the on-deck circle where Gilberto Celestino was taking practice swings. Celestino took a game-style cut just as Sanchez strolled past and missed his teammate’s head by a hair.
&#8220;He almost hit me, but thank God, nothing happened,&#8221; Sanchez said through an interpreter later. &#8220;It&#8217;s just an accident. It&#8217;s fine.&#8221;
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The near tragedy occurred in the eighth inning of the Twins’ 5-1 victory over the home team Chicago White Sox. Sanchez was at the plate when the White Sox summoned reliever Kendall Graveman from the bullpen. As Graveman warmed up, Sanchez headed toward his team’s dugout to get scouting intel on the pitcher.
&#8220;I had a few minutes to go and ask a couple questions about that pitcher,&#8221; Sanchez said. &#8220;I saw his bat was on his shoulder just standing there in the on-deck circle and so I went back to the dugout and I didn&#8217;t notice he was swinging.&#8221;
In the video, you can see Sanchez ducking his head after the bat whizzed past him and Celestino leaning back with a frightened look on his face.
&#8220;Talk about a hammer to the face,&#8221; the announcer said. &#8220;Gary Sanchez just about got smoked, wow, by Celestine, That is scary.&#8221;.
The Twins are tied with Cleveland for first place in the American League Central division, two games ahead of the White Sox. Sanchez, who struck out after the harrowing incident, is hitting just .213 but has 13 home runs and 45 RBI. Celestino, a centerfielder in his second season, has been starting in the absence of injured Twins star Byron Buxton.

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Chicago Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot, irate after Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott had announced he would bus illegal immigrants to her city, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11169163/Texas-Governor-Greg-Abbott-taunts-Chicago-Mayor-Lightfoot-sends-bus-illegal-migrants.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked</a> him, calling him a racist.
Despite Lightfoot’s prior boasts that Chicago was a “sanctuary city,” Lightfoot felt compelled to derogate the idea of more illegal immigrants arriving in her strife-torn city.
“He is a man without any morals, humanity or shame,” Lightfoot raged, charging he had “inhumanely load them onto buses,” then cited “Gov. Abbott&#8217;s racist and xenophobic practices of expulsion.”
But Seth Christensen, chief of media and communications at the Texas Division of Emergency Management, <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-slams-204449131.html">informed</a> Fox News that the buses had air conditioning, food, water, and security personnel.
In the same speech in which she attacked Abbott for sending the immigrants, Lightfoot claimed, “We are Chicago, a welcoming city, a city where we live our values every single day — a city where immigrants and refugees have been a part of the fabric of the city from our earliest days.”
Fox News reported that roughly 75 migrants had arrived in Chicago.
Abbott had announced the transport to Chicago’s Union station on Wednesday, the third city Abbott has targeted as part of his response to President Biden&#8217;s border policies that have overwhelmed Texas with a deluge of illegal immigrants.
“President Biden&#8217;s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans—and Americans—at risk and is overwhelming our communities,” Abbott <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-first-bus-of-migrants-arrives-in-chicago">stated</a>. “To continue providing much-needed relief to our small, overrun border towns, Chicago will join fellow sanctuary cities Washington, D.C. and New York City as an additional drop-off location.”
Abbott then took aim at Lightfoot: “Mayor Lightfoot loves to tout the responsibility of her city to welcome all regardless of legal status, and I look forward to seeing this responsibility in action as these migrants receive resources from a sanctuary city with the capacity to serve them.”
Renea Eze, Abbott’s press secretary, slammed Lightfoot, calling her an “absolute hypocrite.”
“Where was her outrage and condemnation of President Biden as he flew planeloads of migrants across the country and dropped them in communities in the cover of night?” Eze asked Fox News Digital. “Mayor Lightfoot knows nothing about Texas&#8217; busing strategy and needs to stop with the baseless lies and fearmongering. Texas continues stepping up and responding to the Biden-made border crisis, taking unprecedented action to address the historic levels of illegal immigrants, terrorists and deadly drugs like fentanyl that are surging into our communities and overwhelming border towns.”
“If the mayor wants a solution to this humanitarian crisis, she should stop complaining and call on President Biden to take immediate action to secure the border — something the President continues failing to do,” she concluded.
Since April, Texas has transported roughly 7,000 illegal immigrants to Washington D.C. and New York City.

Lori Lightfoot Calls Greg Abbott A Racist For Sending Illegal Immigrants To Chicago

Lori Lightfoot Calls Greg Abbott A Racist For Sending Migrants To Chicago

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The Children&#8217;s Hospital of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago">Chicago</a> is working hand-in-glove with Chicago schools to push radical gender theory and gender transition on students.
Documents obtained by writer and activist <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/unholy-alliance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Rufo</a> show that the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children&#8217;s Hospital of Chicago is collaborating with schools to push radical gender theory, providing school administrators with training documents, policy guides, and resources for students. These resources have been provided to middle and high schools in at least four of Chicago&#8217;s public school systems, Rufo reported.
&#8220;Beyond the lurid nature of some of the content, these documents reveal a profoundly disturbing collusion between radical gender activists in the medical system and the public school bureaucracy,&#8221; Rufo wrote. &#8220;They have laundered the promotion of queer theory, synthetic sexual identities, and child sex toys under the guise of &#8216;health and education,&#8217; devoting significant resources toward building &#8230; a school-to-clinic pipeline.&#8221;
The primary document is a training presentation entitled &#8220;Beyond Binary: Gender In Schools,&#8221; which took several forms in different school systems. One such training contained in Rufo&#8217;s report is conducted by Hadeis Safi (they/them), an &#8220;LGBTQ and Gender Inclusion <a href="https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/specialties-conditions/adolescent-medicine/trainings-education/meet-our-trainers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">training facilitator</a>&#8221; with the hospital&#8217;s Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. The presentation includes a section instructing educators to support transgender and &#8220;gender expansive&#8221; students.
<a href="https://www.catherinecookschool.org/uploaded/2015-2016_School_Year/Newsletter_files/Gender_Identity_Presentation.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Other versions</a> of the presentation describe the phenomenon of &#8220;gender nonconforming,&#8221; &#8220;gender variant,&#8221; and &#8220;gender creative&#8221; individuals as a &#8220;normative variation of human diversity.&#8221; The presentation instructs schools in methods of &#8220;institutional inclusion&#8221;: so-called &#8220;gender support plans&#8221; for transitioning students that include discussions of confidentiality and parent involvement; avoiding gender segregation; allowing for an inclusive dress code; and supporting a school &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-org-combines-k-12-radical-gender-theory-with-anti-cop-anti-capitalist-rhetoric" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Genders and Sexualities Alliance</a>&#8221; club. It instructs schools to &#8220;[e]xplicitly include gender identity in nondiscriminatory policies, diversity statements, and anti-bullying policies — and have explicit bathroom/locker room policies inclusive of all genders,&#8221; and to use inclusive school forms and identification materials. It also instructs schools to include LGBT issues in school curricula.
The presentation then provides a list of resources for teachers to share with students. One such resource is a breast binder exchange program from the DC Area Transmasculine Society; another free breast binder program is also available. Another resource links to a &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1565088266390749185?s=20&amp;t=L1y0qdEXdezf25uisasd3g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kid friendly website for gender affirming gear</a>,&#8221; which include: artificial penis &#8220;packers&#8221; to wear underneath clothing; phallic-shaped &#8220;stand-to-pee devices&#8221;; chest binders, and &#8220;trans masc pumps.&#8221;
Another resource links to an &#8220;LGBTQ friendly sex shop for teens&#8221; that includes dildos, vibrators, sex toys, bondage and gender gear. The website also includes graphic depictions of pornography, BDSM, and so-called &#8220;kink&#8221; sex. The resource list also includes a number of sex education resources targeted at teenagers.
Rufo&#8217;s latest trove of documents come as several major children&#8217;s hospitals have promoted life-altering &#8220;gender affirming&#8221; surgeries, such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/audio-d-c-hospital-confirms-it-performs-trans-hysterectomies-on-girls-under-16-years-old" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hysterectomies</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lgbtqia-advocate-pediatrician-admits-children-can-medically-transition-at-10-years-old-minor-females-can-have-breasts-removed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mastectomies</a>, on minors as young as 13.
The Daily Wire reported Wednesday that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/there-is-no-youngest-age-at-all-california-doctor-admits-to-performing-affirming-surgeries-on-transgender-children-as-young-as-13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Robert Mosser</a>, the founder of the Gender Confirmation Center in San Francisco, said that he does not have an age limit for &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; surgeries in his clinical practice, and admitted that he has performed surgeries on children as young as 13.

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Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) said Wednesday his administration bussed the first group of migrants north to Chicago in response to the border crisis that has overwhelmed Texan communities.
Abbott said he would add the Windy City to the list of drop-off locations, which have included Washington, D.C., and New York City. He argued that it would provide &#8220;much-needed relief&#8221; to the state&#8217;s border towns overrun by a massive influx of people pouring over the southern border.
“President Biden&#8217;s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans — and Americans — at risk and is overwhelming our communities,” Abbott said in a <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-first-bus-of-migrants-arrives-in-chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release.</a> 
Abbott said he looks forward to watching Chicago&#8217;s sanctuary city services serve the migrants and the response from the city&#8217;s Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who “loves to tout the responsibility of her city to welcome all regardless of legal status.”
“Chicago is a welcoming city and as such has collaborated across various departments and agencies to ensure we greeted them with dignity and respect,” a spokesperson for the mayor&#8217;s office said in a statement. “As a city, we are doing everything we can to ensure these immigrants and their families can receive shelter, food, and most importantly, protection.” 
The statement added that Chicago welcomes “hundreds of migrants every year”  and provides much-needed assistance. 
“Unfortunately, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is without any shame or humanity,” it continued. &#8220;But ever since he put these racist practices of expulsion in place, we have been working with our community partners to ready the city to receive these individuals.”
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/politics/texas-migrant-busing-cost-abbott-washington-dc-new-york">reported</a> that a state government spreadsheet it obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request showed that Texas has spent more than $12 million on Wynne Transportation charter services that have bussed migrants to Washington and New York City since April.
Abbott said in a news conference in April that the program would likely make taxpayers front part of the bill for such services. 
“Because Joe Biden is not securing the border, the state of Texas is having to step up and spend Texas taxpayers&#8217; money doing the federal government&#8217;s job,” the governor said at the time, according to CNN.
Texas officials had bussed more than 6,500 migrants to Washington, D.C., and New York City as of early August. Arizona has also bused about 1,000 migrants to other states.
Governor Abbott <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/O-KiddW.Nim202204062216_.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> in April that if Biden were to end Title 42 expulsions, the impact could soon result in as many as 18,000 migrant apprehensions per day. 
The United States Customs and Border Protection <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters">reported</a> earlier this month that authorities had more than 2,200,000 encounters with illegal immigrants in the fiscal year 2022.
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) recently <a href="https://www.fairus.org/press-releases/border-security/fair-analysis-49-million-illegal-aliens-have-crossed-our-borders">claimed</a> that nearly 4.9 million illegal aliens have crossed U.S. borders under Biden&#8217;s watch, “including some 900,000 &#8216;gotaways&#8217; who eluded apprehension and have since disappeared into American communities.” 
To put it in context, Dan Stein, the president of FAIR, compared it to the entire population of Ireland immigrating to America.
“Roughly the equivalent of the entire population of Ireland has illegally entered the United States in the 18 months President Biden has been in office, with many being released into American communities,” Stein said in a press release.
Mairead Elordi and Tim Meads contributed to this report.

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After drag racers terrorized residents of Chicago, speeding through intersections — with one reportedly killing a 40-year-old woman visiting the city —  they pelted Chicago police with rocks and bricks as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed social media for the behavior.
On Sunday, Shawman Meireis, 40, was standing in the crosswalk near Midway Airport the day before her birthday when she was hit by a speeding car. She was later pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Also on Sunday in the Pilsen area, “an angry crowd attacked police with bricks, a road sign, a tree and rocks as a police vehicle drove toward the crowd,” The Chicago Tribune <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/chaotic-drag-races-street-takeovers-231700125.html">reported</a>.
Meanwhile Lightfoot blamed social media for the drag races, snapping, “Their failure to be proactive in addressing these issues to work proactively with law enforcement is an absolute abomination.”
Lightfoot was asked at a press conference on Monday, “What roles do the TikToks and the Instagrams that are posting all these videos do? These [drag races] are clear violations of the law. If these [videos] are taken down because people are watching them, then what’s the attraction of them? It’s diminished, right? Should the police department be working with them to try to take these things down?”
“You’re trying to trigger me, aren’t you?” Lightfoot responded, adding, “I’m being somewhat facetious.”
Then she launched into her attack on social media companies: “I think the lack of responsibility on the part of social media companies, who absolutely know exactly the kind of things that are being posted, their failure to be proactive in addressing these issues to work proactively with law enforcement is an absolute abomination.”
Lightfoot called for federal intervention to censor social media, declaring, “I’m one who believes that the federal government has to step up and regulate every single one of these platforms, whether it’s selling guns on social media, brazenly and openly, and nothing’s being done about it. Whether it’s this kind of thing, advertising things that clearly threaten public safety, whether it’s violence against women, whether it’s child pornography, there is a whole marketplace of illegal activity that is going on every single day on social media.”
“And these social media companies absolutely have the ability to regulate what’s happening on their platforms,” she continued. “This isn’t a question of First Amendment rights; this is a question of public safety for our kids and for our communities, and if these social media companies continue to frankly, stiff-arm us and not own their responsibility, it’s gonna be an even worse problem.”
“Many of the things we see with young people ending in gunfire and violence, you know where they start? The start on social media,” she asserted.
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Chicago Drag Racers Kill Woman, Pelt Police With Rocks. Mayor Lightfoot Blames Social Media.

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With <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-police-officers-fleeing-in-unprecedented-numbers-a-win-for-defund-the-police-movement">departures</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/us/police-retirements-resignations-recruits.html">happening</a> against the backdrop of rising crime rates in major American cities and activists calling for defunding the police, departments across the country are now experiencing staff shortages. Now, as officers continue retiring en masse, police departments are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-suffering-officer-shortage-cant-find-recruits-people-dont-want-to-be-the-police">struggling</a> to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/philadelphia-sees-looming-police-shortage-as-officers-file-for-retirement-and-young-people-arent-signing-up">attract</a> enough new recruits, and some are even being <a href="https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_d7a5d976-0ddb-11ed-8000-4b7a72191d9c.html">forced</a> to restructure in order to respond to 911 calls.
While <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/philadelphia-police-shortage-worsening-hundreds-retiring-20220819.html">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-200-seattle-police-officers-quit-citing-anti-police-climate">Seattle</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lapd-detective-compares-city-to-the-purge-we-dont-think-we-can-keep-you-safe">Los Angeles</a>, and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-police-crime-statistics-staffing-resignation-retirements">Chicago</a> stand out as cities hit the hardest by this mass exodus, nearly every major American city has experienced similar shortages. If you threw a dart at a map of the United States, you’d likely land close to a city dealing with short-staffed police departments and rising crime rates.
In response, police departments across the country are paying out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fund-the-police-portland-unrest-leads-to-record-overtime-for-more-than-a-dozen-cops">more overtime</a> to make up for staffing shortages and <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-911-calls-response-time-20220215.html">restructuring</a> to keep response times up while <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-police-no-longer-allowed-to-chase-criminals-over-minor-offenses">prioritizing</a> violent crime over other offenses such as drugs or theft. Cold case investigators and officers who typically work in outreach and community programs are being <a href="https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/syracuse-police-temporarily-reassign-officers-to-patrol-division-due-to-historically-low-staffing-numbers/">reassigned</a> and placed back on the streets.
High trafficked and high crime areas are, of course, prioritized, and officers are kept in those areas; however, criminals are still taking advantage of law enforcement being stretched thin. Despite their best efforts, crime is <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/six-cities-pace-pass-violent-crime-2022">continuing to rise</a> in major cities across the U.S.
A catastrophic <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009578809/cops-say-low-morale-and-department-scrutiny-are-driving-them-away-from-the-job">drop in morale</a> seems to be the biggest driver of the police exodus. After the COVID pandemic began in March 2020, many state and local governments adopted policies that put criminals back on the street within days of being arrested in order for jails to <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/pandemic-inspires-new-push-shrink-jails-and-prisons">remain less crowded</a>. Police in New York City were <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/04/meet-the-shoplifter-with-101-arrests-and-let-go-almost-every-time/">arresting</a> the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/career-criminals-rack-up-nearly-500-arrests-since-ny-bail-reform-began/">same criminals</a> for different crimes within weeks – or sometimes even days – of each other in extremely frustrating cycles.
Then, in May of that year, almost every single major city in America was rocked by protests and riots over the death of George Floyd. Black Lives Matter activists led massive demonstrations that sparked hundreds of violent riots and gave momentum to a movement for defunding the police.
Progressive leaders in cities such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-minneapolis-plan-to-defund-the-police-collapses-city-council-members-regret-making-pledge">Minneapolis</a>, <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/portland-among-u-s-cities-adding-funds-to-police-departments">Portland</a>, and <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/0b1ade8e-18cd-43a1-967f-5328ba2053dc">Los Angeles</a> initially embraced the reforms and cut police department funding. These funding cuts and the Defund the Police messaging signaled to many officers that their elected leaders no longer supported them.
This loss of hope in elected officials has produced a startling shortage in police departments across America. The <a href="https://www.policeforum.org/workforcesurveyjune2021">Police Executive Research Forum</a> conducted a study of nearly 200 police departments last year and measured the changes in hiring, resignations, and retirements. Researchers polled police departments on how those statistics changed in the year following the onset of the pandemic compared to the year before, and found that hiring across those police departments fell by a relatively modest 5%. Resignations, on the other hand, increased 18%. Retirements, though, were the biggest blow of all, jumping a staggering 45%. The study acknowledged that smaller departments may have skewed the previously noted statistic, but, even if all the departments with less than 500 officers were excluded, the retirement rate still jumped 27%.
The police shortage, paired with a rise in crime, seems to be feeding a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Miv_ti5KR9U">snowball effect</a>:
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/put-the-guns-down-activists-call-for-peace-as-philadelphias-homicide-rate-continues-to-outpace-deadliest-year-on-record/">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a> hit a record number of homicides last year, and it’s on pace to break that record again this year. Additionally, the city is <a href="https://metrophiladelphia.com/cops-combat-violent-crime-as-ranks-dwindle/">down about</a> 550 officers under pre-pandemic levels, and over 800 more officers are on medical leave or restricted duty.
In <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10908921/NYPD-staffing-crisis-city-jeopardy-union-officials-say.html">New York City</a>, the crime rate has jumped nearly 40% this year, and the city’s police officers are leaving en masse. About 1,600 have left the force already this year, well over 400 more than the number that left the police department in all of last year.
In <a href="https://www.nola.com/news/article_5ffa853c-0a04-11ed-9285-6be02e4e976d.html">New Orleans, Louisiana</a>, “fewer than 1,000 officers remain after a <a href="https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_0aca501e-8b98-11ec-93fe-c73c3ae4ff61.html">net loss of one in six officers</a> since the start of last year. More than 90 have left the force this year as of early July, according to police officer groups. That’s about the same number who resigned, retired or were fired in all of 2020.” New Orleans police officials and Mayor LaToya Cantrell <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0kmZIG3fEg">admonished the media</a> for making their police recruitment more difficult and stated that their priorities are “retention, recruitment, resources.”
<a href="https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2022/05/05/chief-responds-las-cruces-police-officers-association-releases-scathing-letter/9661087002/">Las Cruces, New Mexico</a> was down to 77% of its max operating forces as of June 2021.
In <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2022/01/push-to-hire-retired-portland-police-officers-falls-short-only-2-of-81-express-interest.html">Portland, Oregon</a>, only two recently retired officers, among the 81 contacted by Police Chief Chuck Lovell, have expressed interest in helping fill vacancies for Portland police under the city-approved <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/09/mayor-calls-for-more-money-this-fall-to-rehire-police-officers-expand-portland-street-response-prepare-for-body-cameras.html">retire-rehire program</a>. Chief Lovell urged retired officers to consider returning in a letter, acknowledging that those who have retired since August 2020 left “at a time of great despair for the Bureau and the City of Portland.”
In <a href="https://wlos.com/news/local/asheville-police-departments-staffing-deficit-has-cost-246m-overtime-pay-since-2020-taxpayers-chief-david-zack">Asheville, North Carolina</a>, Police Chief David Zack stated, “We really saw this towards the middle and end of 2020 when we started to see the mass exodus of officers.” He continued: “It’s been pretty steady on a monthly basis where we’re about 40% down of our sworn staff.”
According to <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/court-orders-minneapolis-to-employ-a-minimum-of-731-police-officers">Minneapolis, Minnesota’s</a> city records, “MPD’s sworn ranks reached a low of 614 officers in early May, down from more than 900 in early 2020.”
In the city of <a href="https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-police-department-shortage-staffing-sfpd-chief-william-scott/12094352/">San Francisco, California</a>, police are down by about 300 officers, “meaning fewer police on the streets, longer response times for critical crimes and little or no time to interact with the public.”
In <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-police-department-officer-shortage-crime-spike/">Chicago, Illinois</a>, according to police, “There are 296 academy recruits right now – with a new class of about 85 to 90 starting June 1. They are not making up for the numbers lost quite yet.” Chairman of the Chicago Police Foundation Board of Directors Richard Simon, in defense of officers, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCPYOxnywoI">stated</a>, “These are every mother’s son and daughter that put on the uniform of our country. These aren’t bad people; these are great people. These are American heroes.”
There is a heightened need for cities to get a handle on police officer shortages before things become much worse.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The former richest man in <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/illinois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illinois</a> and current Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, who recently moved his <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/business" target="_blank" rel="noopener">company</a> to <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a>, has already poured billions of dollars into the Sunshine State.
Griffin — whose $29 billion net worth places him among the 50 richest men on the planet, according to the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/">Bloomberg Billionaires Index</a> — moved to Miami after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wealthiest-man-in-illinois-moves-his-business-from-chicago-to-miami-amid-feud-with-democratic-leadership">voicing concerns</a> about the lackluster business environment and rising crime rates in <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago</a>. He announced earlier this summer that Citadel, which manages $51 billion in assets, would likewise relocate to Florida.
Griffin has already spent $175 million on five acres of property in southern Florida, on which he plans to tear down the existing house and build a new one, according to a report from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kodBODk_PL8">CNBC</a>. He has also spent $450 million on land for a new estate north of Palm Beach — a property larger than Mar-a-Lago, the home of former President Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Citadel has spent more than $600 million on an empty lot that will house its new headquarters, as well as a temporary office building, an apartment building, and more than 100,000 square feet of office leases from which employees will work until the new headquarters is completed.
The real estate spending spree of more than $1 billion occurs as Griffin sells his two penthouses in Chicago. Griffin was also heavily involved in contributing to Chicago nonprofits, giving more than $600 million over the course of two decades to organizations such as Northwestern Medicine and the Art Institute of Chicago, according to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-07/citadel-s-ken-griffin-gives-130-million-in-chicago-while-moving-firm-to-miami">Bloomberg</a>. Meanwhile, Citadel has a lease on Park Avenue in New York City, and Griffin retains a $240 million home near Central Park, which constitutes the most expensive house in America.
Griffin slammed rising crime rates in Chicago in recent comments made to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/ken-griffin-moving-citadel-from-chicago-to-miami-following-crime-complaints-11655994600">The Wall Street Journal</a>. Under the leadership of Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D), the city <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lightfoots-chicago-records-797-homicides-in-2021-most-among-u-s-cities">recorded 797 homicides</a> in 2021 — the highest of any American city.
“If people aren’t safe here, they’re not going to live here,” Griffin told the outlet. “I’ve had multiple colleagues mugged at gunpoint. I’ve had a colleague stabbed on the way to work. Countless issues of burglary. I mean, that’s a really difficult backdrop with which to draw talent to your city from.”
Meanwhile, Griffin has a prolonged feud with Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), who mocked the billionaire as he left the state. Construction machinery maker <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/caterpillar-inc-to-move-global-headquarters-out-of-chicago-area-into-texas/2857142/">Caterpillar</a> and airplane manufacturer <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2022/05/05/boeing-will-move-headquarters-from-chicago-to-dc-metro-area/?sh=2ffb83d863cf">Boeing</a> also left Chicago this year.
“So like a spoiled rich kid, Griffin announced he was taking his toys and leaving Illinois,” Pritzker said in remarks for a meeting of the Florida Democrats. “Where did he move to? You guessed it. His $400 million, 20-acre Palm Beach estate. And he’s one of Ron DeSantis’ largest donors.”
“Really really sorry about that,” he continued, adding that supporting DeSantis over former President Donald Trump is “a little bit like saying you’ve never been a fan of Darth Vader but you support the Empire’s political agenda.”
Florida saw the nation’s largest net domestic migration between July 2020 and July 2021, with more than 220,000 people moving to the state, according to the <a href="https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/2021-population-estimates.html">Census Bureau</a>. Florida was followed by Texas and Arizona, while New York, California, and Illinois led the nation in terms of numeric decline.

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A <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-hit-and-run-driver-who-ran-over-mom-and-baby-gets-5-7-months-in-juvie-camp/">hit-and-run</a> crash sent bodies flying — and ultimately left several dead — in <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/illegal-drag-race-ends-with-thugs-attacking-chicago-cops-throwing-live-fireworks-into-vehicle/">Chicago</a> early Sunday morning, and the worst of the incident was captured on a video that had begun circulating on Twitter by later that afternoon.
A tweet from @CWBChicago — which shares public safety information pertaining to the city&#8217;s north side — included the graphic video along with the caption, &#8220;Warning: Graphic video. 3 dead, 1 injured after a driver appears to intentionally strike a group of men in the street near 71st and Jeffery in #Chicago around 5 a.m. Sunday. Offender remains at large.&#8221;
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3 dead, 1 injured after a driver appears to intentionally strike a group of men in the street near 71st and Jeffery in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chicago?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chicago</a> around 5 a.m. Sunday. Offender remains at large. <a href="https://t.co/wa2ZNFW1FB">pic.twitter.com/wa2ZNFW1FB</a>
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The video showed the car barreling toward the group of men, who were reportedly fighting in the street. The vehicle, driving down the wrong side of the road, appeared to swerve to avoid several people before plowing into the group. The car did not slow down as it struck several of them and sent them flying into the street.
A second video, shot from the dash-cam of a nearby vehicle, showed the horrific crash from another angle.
&#8220;Dash cam footage of hit &amp; run in the Jackson Park Highlands neighborhood that occurred at about 5 a.m. this morning,&#8221; @ChicagoCritter tweeted.
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Dash cam footage of hit &amp; run in the Jackson Park Highlands neighborhood that occurred at about 5 a.m this morning. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/chicago?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#chicago</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/chicagosscanner?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#chicagosscanner</a> <a href="https://t.co/dnH5XSyI72">pic.twitter.com/dnH5XSyI72</a>
&mdash; CHICAGO CRITTER (@ChicagoCritter) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChicagoCritter/status/1558826857629458787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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According to CWB Chicago&#8217;s <a href="https://cwbchicago.com/2022/08/3-dead-1-injured-by-high-speed-driver-outside-jeffery-pub-horrific-video-shows.html">report</a>, the Cook County medical examiner has identified two of the three who were killed as Devonta K. Vivetter, 27, and Donald Huey, 25. The ME&#8217;s office has not released the identity of the third victim.
&#8220;This happened outside Jeffery Pub, one of the city&#8217;s longest-running LGBTQ bars,&#8221; the following tweet from @CWBChicago <a href="https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1558868540240846848">added</a>.
&#8220;A very unfortunate tragic event occurred early this morning after closing,&#8221; Jeffery Pub posted to its Facebook page on Sunday morning. &#8220;A small group of people were in the street and an unidentified vehicle drove past at a very high rate of speed injuring several people and some deceased. Our hearts heavy this morning that such tragic event has occurred. We always encourage everyone to leave and go to your vehicles right away to make it home safe. And tonight this happened. And to those that lost a loved one or friend we stand with you. If anyone has any information to assist in finding out who did this, please contact us immediately and you will remain anonymous.&#8221;
&#8220;This is still under investigation and our condolences are with the families of those affected. The entire Jeffery Pub is stunned and overwhelmed by this tragedy. So please allow us time to grieve and understand what really happened,&#8221; Jeffery Pub owner Jamal Junior told <a href="https://www.windycitytimes.com/lgbt/Three-men-hit-by-car-and-killed-near-Jeffery-Pub-/73768.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter">The Windy City Times</a>.

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The Chicago Department of Public Health warned attendees of the Lollapalooza music festival to test their recreational drugs for fentanyl.
In a public service announcement posted on its social media pages Wednesday night, the Department of Public Health warned festival goers about the dangers of a fentanyl overdose. The announcement warned that fentanyl can be mixed with other recreational drugs and urged festival goers to test their drugs before using them, not to take drugs alone, and to carry the anti-overdose drug Narcan with them.
&#8220;ATTN Chicago &amp; LOLLA FANS: Fentanyl is a strong opioid that can easily cause overdose,&#8221; the Department of Public Health tweeted Wednesday night. &#8220;Test your drugs before you use, carry Narcan, and don&#8217;t use alone. Call 911 if you suspect someone is overdosing.&#8221;
The tweet included two graphics telling festival goers to stay safe. &#8220;Fentanyl is found in Cocaine, MDMA, and other drugs — not just heroin,&#8221; one graphic said. &#8220;Stay safe this weekend,&#8221; said another. &#8220;Don&#8217;t use alone. Test your drugs. Carry Narcan.&#8221; The tweet also included a department email address where individuals could acquire fentanyl test strips and Narcan.
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ATTN Chicago &amp; LOLLA FANS: Fentanyl is a strong opioid that can easily cause overdose. Test your drugs before you use, carry Narcan, and don&#8217;t use alone. Call 911 if you suspect someone is overdosing.
Get fentanyl test strips and Narcan by emailing osu.cdph@cityofchicago.org. 
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City Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady explained the announcement, along with signs in Grant Park, where the event is being held, which seemed to sanction recreational drug use, according to the <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/7/28/23282672/lollapalooza-drugs-fentanyl-narcan-lightfoot-arwady-chicago-health-department">Chicago Sun-Times</a>.
“We regularly see — and have for years — that young people who attend festivals often are feeling very free and often experiment … with illicit substances,&#8221; Arwady said at a news conference Thursday, according to the Sun-Times. &#8220;The problem is that so many of those illicit substances now are laced with fentanyl. Fentanyl is a very strong opioid.”
“If you have a young person … who does not routinely use opioids and they experiment with a substance — even one that they think is something that their friend is giving them — we are increasingly seeing fentanyl laced into those substances,&#8221; she added. &#8220;People think this is just gonna be a pill that helps them have fun.&#8221;
The city of Chicago has been distributing free <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/12/15/chicago-public-health-department-distributing-fentanyl-tests">fentanyl test strips</a> since October 2021. The Sun-Times noted that they are available for free at all Chicago Public Libraries. Arwady explained that if the strip changes color when exposed to a substance, “[y]ou know there’s fentanyl in it. Don’t use it.”
<div class="RTEHashTagLabAdModule">Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was unambiguous in denouncing drug use at the festival. “I feel compelled, as the mother of a 14-year-old to say, ‘Don’t even experiment.&#8217; Don’t pick it up. Don’t try it. Go there. Have fun. But using illicit drugs is a huge risk. And frankly, you don’t know if you’re one of those folks who is predisposed to addiction,” Lightfoot said at the same news conference. “So, I would just say, ‘Go. Have fun. But leave the drugs to the side. Don’t do it.&#8217;”</div>
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<div>Law enforcement officials said last week that music festivals are a hotbed for experimental drug use.</div>
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<div>&#8220;Lollapalooza is like Christmas for drug traffickers,&#8221; Shane Catone, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration&#8217;s Chicago division, told <a href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-dea-warns-of-deadly-drugs-at-lollapalooza">Fox 32 Chicago</a>. &#8220;There&#8217;s going to be people walking around with backpacks at Lollapalooza, that are going to be selling pills that are going to be laced with fentanyl. There&#8217;s not a doubt in my mind.&#8221;</div>
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<div>Lollapalooza began Thursday. It runs through Sunday, July 31.</div>

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A professional photographer who posted about her divorce on TikTok was killed by her ex-husband, who then turned the gun on himself, Chicago police say.
Sania Khan, a 29-year-old Pakistani-American living in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood, was moving on with her life after divorcing her 36-year-old husband, Raheel Ahmad. Khan posted uplifting messages on TikiTok about what it meant to be a South Asian woman going through a divorce.
&#8220;Going through a divorce as a South Asian woman feels like you failed at life sometimes,&#8221; Khan posted in June. &#8220;The way the community labels you, the lack of emotional support you receive and the pressure to stay with someone because ‘what will people say’ is isolating. It makes it harder for women to leave marriages that they shouldn’t have been in to begin with.&#8221;
On July 18, Chicago police officers went to Khan’s apartment looking for her husband, who had been reported missing by his family from his home in Alpharetta, Georgia.
His family had asked for a well-being check on Ahmad, but he was not home. An Alpharetta police officer told officers in Chicago that Ahmad and his wife were going through a divorce and that he had traveled to Chicago “to salvage the marriage,” the Chicago Sun-Times <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/7/19/23270257/georgia-man-fatally-shot-wife-streeterville-condo-killed-himself-as-cops-arrived-police-reports">reported</a>.
Friends of Khan, however, told the outlet that the divorce had been finalized in May.
When police knocked on the door to Khan’s apartment, they heard a single gunshot followed by a “verbal groan,” according to police reports obtained by the Sun-Times.
Police entered the residence and found Khan near the door with a gunshot wound to the back of her head and dried blood on her face. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Ahmad was found in a bedroom with a gunshot to the head, holding a handgun with a suicide note nearby, according to the police reports. Ahmad was taken to a hospital but died of his injuries.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office ruled Ahmad’s death a suicide and Khan’s a homicide.
Grant, a friend of Khan’s, told the Sun-Times that Khan was starting to plan “her next move in her photography career.”
“She could make a friend out of anyone and would always be there for them during their moments,” he told the outlet. “You would be hard pressed to find anyone who would say something bad about Sania because just knowing Sania added so much light to your life.”

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