Another pillar of Chicago’s financial community is headed toward the exits — and apparently has quietly slashed its Chicago workforce in recent months. Multiple industry sources report that Guggenheim Partners, an investment firm which has employed roughly 1,000 people in the West Loop, is on the verge of deciding to move its headquarters to Miami, the Florida city to which Citadel recently decamped.

Posturing as a “sanctuary city” used to be fun when it meant resisting Donald Trump, but now the migrant crisis is everywhere. “We simply have no more shelters, spaces, or resources,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says in a letter Sunday to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. “Though I am sympathetic to the significant challenges that border cities face, this situation is completely untenable.”

In a news conference Monday, Gov. JB Pritzker said he has done what he could to help Chicago, and asked President Joe Biden for more money from the federal government, which he says hasn’t provided nearly enough.

Responding to Sunday’s letter from Mayor Lori Lightfoot, in which she pleaded for him to stop sending migrants who cross the Southern border to Chicago, Gov. Greg Abbott wrote, “If you truly want to ‘work together to find a real solution’ to this border crisis gripping our nation, you must call on the Biden Administration to do its job by securing our border, repelling the illegal immigrants flooding into our communities, classifying the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and intercepting the deadly fentanyl that is endangering our country.”

“Obviously, every union should advocate for its members, but it’s gotta be in the context of an organization,” Lightfoot said Monday. “We needed to get our kids back in school, and I’m unapologetic about the fight to make sure that we put our kids and our parents first.”

In the 2023-2024 school year, the high school is offering “AP [Advanced Placement] Calculus AB” which is equivalent to “one semester of college calculus,” though the class code is “restricted to students who identify as Black, all genders,” the course catalog showed. An identical course allegedly limits its enrollment to students who “identify as Latinx, all genders.” However, the high school is offering an identical calculus course with a

In the meantime, the rate of migrant spending is being reduced in other cities. “Federal funding limitations” prompted Denver to create new rules that go into effect next week where shelter is only to be offered to asylum seekers who’ve met with immigration officials. In Washington D.C., housing is provided to families, not single individuals. Chicago welcomes everyone and Ald. Michael Rodriguez said cutting back is not an option.

“Next year, Chicago will contribute more than $1 billion toward the city’s teacher pension plan. A large portion of that money will come from the state, and another $550 million will come from a dedicated property tax levy the state authorized in 2018. And yet, all this money is not enough.”

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So far, Chicago police haven’t responded to questions about what it would do to more quickly provide prosecutors with evidence. CPD efforts have been described by the city’s internal watchdog agency as so slow and haphazard that they didn’t meet basic constitutional requirements.

“I know by your actions that you either do not see or do not care about the trauma these migrants have already faced and continue to suffer under the humanitarian crisis you have created,” the mayor wrote. “The immigration crisis is a national challenge that requires national collaboration. For the good of our country and the individuals who are seeking safety in refuge, let’s work together to find a real solution. And that real solution will never be the unilateral bussing of migrants to cities like Chicago.”

Hometown Police say about 70 cars blocked neighborhood streets, preventing officers from getting through, while others did donuts in a mosque parking lot. Police Chief Louis Dominguez Jr. says the Chicago Police Department had just reached out to them and surrounding agencies last week in reference to street drifting. (with video)

Last weekend, at least 20 people were shot, one fatally, across the city.