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    $2.9 million settlement for Anjanette Young over bungled Chicago police raid advances to City Council

    by John Byrne and Gregory Pratt, Chicago Tribune Dec 13, 2021 4 minutes

    CHICAGO — Anjanette Young is in line for a $2.9 million settlement for the botched police raid on her home that prompted the Chicago Police Department to change its policies and became an embarrassment for Mayor Lori Lightfoot after her administration tried to prevent footage of the incident from airing.

    The City Council’s Finance Committee unanimously approved the settlement for Young on Monday. It will appear on the full council’s agenda Wednesday.

    “The city has never disputed Ms. Young suffered an indignity” during the raid, city corporation counsel Celia Meza said Monday, when she took the unusual step of presenting the settlement to the Finance Committee herself.

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