“When housing affordability fell to an all-time low across the country, due in part to a large increase in mortgage rates, less expensive metros like Chicago become relatively more attractive places to live. While I’m not counting on a full reversal of Chicago’s long-running exodus, current housing market conditions may actually help slow the city’s population decline.”

As of Monday, 878 newly arrived migrants were staying inside police stations and 69 at O’Hare International Airport, according to the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communication; More than 100 migrants in those settings were children. About 3,200 new arrivals have exited the city’s shelter system so far, aldermen were told Friday, while about 5,300 remain. CPS added $15 million for English language learning services to this school year’s

“Releasing our ‘Do Not Call List’ and updating our internal policy regarding witness disclosure are necessary steps to improve the office’s prosecutorial integrity and help rebuild public trust in our criminal justice system,” Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said in a prepared statement.

Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 President John Catanzara said a deal is in place for a bonus for officers who have been on the force for 20-plus years and sets up negotiations for recently terminated officers. But union leaders are still pushing for parental leave and have said they will pursue legal action if the policy is not granted as it recently was for the city’s teachers.

“School board members are meant to be stewards of the district’s educational performance and its finances. With such close ties to the Chicago Teachers Union and progressive politics, (Mayor Brandon) Johnson’s school board appointees face a conflict of interest: Will their loyalties lie with Chicago kids and families, or with their political allies?”

“It provides much insight into the new regime’s priorities, from slavery reparations to strengthening Chicago’s ‘sanctuary city’ policies. It’s an overwhelmingly progressive and very expensive wish list, of course, and even the occasional Reaganite idea is shot through with anxiety over racial disparities. ‘Identify top 3 administrative barriers for small businesses,’ begins one recommendation, ‘particularly Black, Latinx, and Native-owned and community-driven development projects.'”

There was optimism in the air two years ago when then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced full-throated city backing for 250 new single-family homes priced for working-class buyers and built on city-owned vacant lots in North Lawndale. Today, only 18 are in various stages of construction. Richard Townsell, of the Lawndale Christian Development Corp., said the hold up is from

The U.S. Marine Corps leased the property from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago through 2053, Ald. Andre Vasquez said, and it has served as the U.S. Marines’ Joseph J. McCarthy Reserve Center. Vasquez said he believes the Marines aren’t actively using the property and people who are homeless have been living there.

The individual suburbs where buyers, on average, are reaching furthest above the asking price, according to Redfin, are:Kenilworth: 109%, Calumet Park: 108%, Glencoe: 106%, Norridge: 105%, Clarendon Hills, Lincolnwood, Robbins, Round Lake Beach, Summit, West Chicago: 104%.

The center will be a part of a ‘one-stop-shop’ at Clemente High School. Children on the West Side who will be attending Chicago Public Schools will be able to get language screenings, health screenings and be placed in the proper programs within Chicago Public Schools. It will be offered at other schools across the city if it becomes successful.

Cops responded to calls of a car plowing into the pricey Oak Street boutique’s front entrance just after 5 a.m. An officer in the Loop radioed that he saw a small black car with heavy front-end damage barreling through all the red lights along Michigan Avenue after the burglary call came out

Nearly 165,000 Travel + Leisure readers weighed in on the survey, rating cities across the country on criteria like sights and landmarks, food, culture, friendliness, shopping and value. “Honestly, who doesn’t like Chicago?” one reader asks.

“The movement for ‘common good bargaining’ in the educational context — other industries are increasingly making common good demands too — was born during the Chicago teacher strike of 2012 and has been gaining steam ever since.”

In one case, five people were shot in a drive-by shooting early Sunday in West Garfield Park. No one is in custody at this time.

The two sides remain far apart on how much property tax the Bears should pay at their 326-acre Arlington Park property over the next two years. The Bears’ last offer was $4.3 million, while the school districts suggested $7.9 million. Though it’s being challenged, Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s reassessment of the property would increase the annual bill from $2.8 million to $16.2 million.