Vice President Kamala Harris attended a national ‘Get Out the Vote’ rally with U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth Sunday afternoon, then a couple hours later joined Gov. JB Pritzker and Lt. Gov. Julianna Stratton to encourage voter turnout.

Judge Mary Mikva said the arbitrator determined “implementation of the city’s vaccination policy was an exercise of the city’s contractually recognized management rights provided for in” the unions’ collective bargaining agreements. But the unions insisted that finding violates their right to bargain before implementation, to not be subject to unilateral changes and to take impasses to arbitration. They also said such rights can’t be waived through a union contract absent “clear, unmistakable and unequivocal language providing for the waiver.”

By keeping information secret until the deal is complete, said Joe Ferguson, the city’s former inspector general, the CHA is at odds with a key tenet of good government: transparency. “This is the Chicago way in its most dark form,” he said.

City Council members Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, Rossana Rodriguez, Byron Sigcho-Lopez, Daniel La Spata and Jeanette Taylor: “The few campaign promises Lightfoot has kept — like passing civilian oversight of the police or removing the carveouts from the city’s sanctuary ordinance — happened only after significant pressure from grassroots activists and community organizations.”

The mayor and her allies view the changes as a necessary byproduct of the looming move to an elected school board in which CPS will be independent from City Hall and no longer the mayor’s responsibility. Lightfoot’s administration also has said the changes are about “ensuring that each sister agency pays its fair share and is self-sustaining.”

CTU President Stacy Davis Gates issued the statement issued a statement that reads, in part, “This mayor runs a city and a school district that over the last three years have received more direct support from the federal government than at any time in history. Yet she’s spent little on real needs, from affordable housing to trauma supports for our students – and is instead moving to force $6 billion in pension liabilities that Chicago mayors have failed to pay over the decades onto CPS, while the school district also confronts a backlog of at least $2 billion in urgent

The looming severance of governance ties between Chicago Public Schools and the city adds to strains on the district’s “fragile” fiscal health as federal COVID-19 pandemic relief is being exhausted and structural costs are mounting. That’s the assessment of a review that delves into CPS finances and how Chicago and other city-related entities prop up CPS’ budget. “CPS’s financial condition is fragile,” reads the report ? compiled by CPS with the help of independent advisory and accounting firms on the district that carries three junk ratings, despite a series of upgrades. “Even without a transition to an independent unit of

Marian Catholic President Vince Krydynski said he sent out an email this summer to teachers establishing a policy for neutral classroom, meaning no flags or signs that align with identity in anyway can be put up. The examples Krydynski gave were the LGTBQ community, Black Lives Matter or blue lives matter, he said.

Discussions are ongoing and Allstate, which employs more than 7,000 people in Illinois, could still choose a different location for the headquarters. It’s unclear how many people would be affected, since 75% of the company’s employees work from home.

U.S. Reps. Sean Casten and Lauren Underwood, who are both seeking reelection and in hotly-contested races, received support from President Joe Biden, who participated in a political fundraiser Friday, and on Saturday, discussed Social Security and Medicare at a rally in Joliet.