When asked what he thinks needs to happen next, Local 241 president Keith Hill said, “This presence? Talk to me after the holiday. Talk to me next week. Let’s really see after the 4th [on] Monday. Let’s see what happens Thursday and Friday.”

Both the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox rank in the top ten most expensive game experiences.

Crowds of people threw rocks and fireworks at Chicago police officers while others climbed onto occupied CPD squad cars as cops responded to disturbances on the city’s northwest and southwest sides overnight. No arrests were made, police said. (This report includes video.)

Appellate judges Diane Wood and David F. Hamilton wrote, “The problem with this argument is that none of the federal defendants had anything to do with the site selection — it was the city that chose Jackson Park, and the federal agencies had (and have) no authority to move the project elsewhere. Federal law does not require agencies to waste time and resources evaluating environmental effects that those agencies neither caused nor have the authority to change.”

Ald. Gilbert Villegas noted that ward organizations are a shadow of what they once were: “An alderman back in the ’80s or ’90s had the ability to have precinct captains, the ability to bring out the vote. It’s not like that anymore,” he said. Vaunted operations run by formal or informal political families are dwindling away. Field workers of today are more frequently members of unions who have endorsed the candidate or are associated with ideological groups.

Data published Friday by the Chicago Police Department shows there have been 310 homicides and 1,255 shootings in the city through the end of June. Both those figures are below the pace set through the first six months of 2021 and 2020.