“I’ve made a commitment to invest in the very communities that were disrupted by previous administrations that have closed schools, that have closed mental health clinics, that have shut down public housing,” Johnson said. “Everything that I’ve done up to this point — while still handling this crisis — I have not stopped governing to make sure we’re raising the wages, passing Treatment Not Trauma, bringing Chicago home. Apparently, in the city of Chicago, you have a mayor who can walk and chew gum.”

Matthew Podgorski of M3 Strategies said Chicago is not a conservative city, but with more than 15,000 non-citizen new arrivals in Chicago from the southern border in the past year taking more resources, recent polling shows growing opposition to the idea. “A majority of those likely voters have said that they want to end sanctuary city and stop housing the migrants, whatever that means to them,” Podgorski said. “That surprised even me.”

“I am confident that we can handle it. But again, it will require help from the federal government, and someone needs to work in Texas with these border politicians to have them stop sending people only to blue cities and blue states,” Gov. JB Pritzker said. “The President of the United States and the White House have the ability to help disperse folks across the country. That will help a lot.”

The restaurant industry is the largest employer for Chicagoans age 16 to 24.

“The mayor has no idea what he’s talking about,” said Michael Saltsman, of the Employment Policies Institute. “The only thing that is going to happen here is it’s going to drive servers outside the city because they’re going to find themselves earning less than they did before.” Saltsman said the same policy has been disastrous across the country, most recently in the District of Columbia, causing a rise in service charges, layoffs and restaurant closures.

This is the second shooting in two weeks to happen at a youth football game in the Chicago area. Last week a man was shot at Mandrake Park during a Chicago Hellcats game. “You can’t have the detectives out here, you can’t sit there and pat everyone down,” said parent Dedric Scales. “I think what it is we, some of the people, need to be the security ourselves.”

Volunteers who have worked with the migrants and church officials said the Archdiocese of Chicago wants to make sites available but hasn’t gotten city help to do it. “This is more or less an easy solution,” said Britt Hodgdon, who has volunteered at the Grand Crossing police station. She said the archdiocese has offered property if the city can pay for security, “and the city has just ghosted them after that.”

“You love to remind voters that you are a former community organizer. So, you should be right at home, attending those community meetings to hear firsthand the barrage of complaints and concerns of your constituents and respond.”

A thorough review of Chicago’s immigration fiasco by Mary Williams Walsh, a New York Times “escapee” and managing editor of News Items.

The $3.5 million figure for police overtime and construction stands in contrast to the $620,000 NASCAR paid: a base $500,000 permit fee a final check for nearly $120,000 to pay the city its portion of ticket sales as well as commissions for food, beverage and merchandise, according to city records. Said Mayor Brandon Johnson, “We’ve seen

Last weekend, 37 people were shot, five fatally, in gun violence across Chicago, police said.

“The sanctuary city program, with its unsustainable financial implications, now threatens Chicago with a fiscal Armageddon that its residents will ultimately pay for…Regrettably, the city’s leadership appears more inclined to demand additional funding from the state and federal governments rather than addressing the root of the issue by controlling arrivals and expenditures.”