Fmr. Sheriff Mark Curran (IL)Verified account

"...which as I announced recently, includes $1.2 million in funding at the community-based level to expand access for our residents experiencing serious mental illness; investment in a telemedicine platform to increase access; and a website dedicated to wellness and self-care."

To our young people: "I want you to know that we hear you and we see you. I know that you are concerned and hurt and angry and traumatized as we all are. But my ask of you is this—be an example for us adults, in the way that you are with each other."

"Our children are watching. My hope is that they see all of us standing up in this moment, and standing tall because we need to be there for them now more than ever. Even in this difficult and scary time."

"So we will clean up these broken windows, but we can’t stop there. We must also clean up and repair our broken systems. Not just by ending the violence we’ve seen here, but by reimagining our city, and what our city means for every neighborhood and every community."

That is the dream we must fulfill. That is the task now at our hands. If we work, we can do what James Baldwin described, we will have "in the teeth of the most terrifying odds, achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity."

"My brothers and sisters, even in the midst of our broken hearts from our brother George who was ruthlessly taken away, and so many here in our city, before and after LaQuan McDonald..."

"...we need to remember and cherish our great strength: that is of course our diversity. 77 neighborhoods strong, each unique and beautiful. 140 plus languages, but we all speak in unison."

"We will and must be united together around a singular vision that we rise and fall together. If there is to be an uprising, let it be for peace."