In a statement, the firm said a New York University law student had written in a student bar association online publication that “Israel bears full responsibility” for Hamas’ deadly attack in Israel, and the former summer associate’s comments “profoundly conflict with Winston & Strawn’s values as a firm.”

“There are geopolitical roots to these events. Obviously. But what we saw on Saturday was inhuman brutality of the kind that we must all stand against. Without equivocation… Let’s contrast that with the statement made by Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez who, the Chicago Sun-Times reported, told Ald. Debra Silverstein that she wanted to work with her on a resolution that provides ‘a more nuanced understanding’ of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

For more than a week, many in the Austin and Galewood communities have been pushing back the city’s decision to convert the Amundsen Park Fieldhouse into a migrant shelter. At least five residents filed an emergency Temporary Restraining Order Tuesday to block the city from going back on their word about moving migrants into the Amundsen Park Fieldhouse.

“I’ve said this before, but people need to be communicated with and this is leaving a bad taste in everyone’s mouth,” said Julie Darling, president of the West Loop Community Organization. “People just really wanna know what the plan is, like literally what is the plan?”

CTU President Stacy Davis Gates said she has started “talking turkey” with her members about their priorities for any new deal; they include smaller class sizes, more bilingual support staff to serve the children of asylum seekers, building time into the elementary school day for teachers to collaborate and more “sustainable community schools.” Translated: more union staff, less instructional time and higher salaries.

Of more than three dozen settlements reached with city workers over the past five years, the deal that Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration reached with the treasurer’s ex-employees was the only one that contained what amounts to a gag order.

Since 1979, signs have honored West 37th and South Honore as Chicago’s geographic center. But the city’s real midpoint shifted in the ’50s when the city annexed land for O’Hare. Now, the actual center is between Pilsen and McKinley Park: south of 31st and Western and in the water of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Since the first week of August, the facility’s population has dropped 10.4%; the number of electronically monitored defendants had increased just 0.6% since early August. The Lake County Adult Corrections Facility in north suburban Waukegan has also seen a sharp population decline.

Researchers with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago found that CPS’ student-based budgeting has actually led to greater equity across the school system, with more dollars flowing to elementary schools with mostly low-income students and fewer dollars going to the most affluent schools. The researchers also found that private fundraising by schools that serve the wealthiest students has undermined the equity gains somewhat by boosting revenue going to the most affluent schools.

After celebrating the Hamas paraglider massacre at a rave in Israel which killed more than 260 people, BLM Chicago has deleted their tweet, and said that they had “sent out msgs that we aren’t proud of.” But then they add, “We stand with Palestine & the people who will do what they must to live free.”

United Working Families – which has long sought to shape public policies by staging political action events at City Hall and attending council meetings – backed Mayor Brandon Johnson. Bartley, its 28-year-old leader, is now tasked with leveraging unprecedented access to City Hall. Her roughly 30-minute, standing check-ins with the mayor’s senior advisor represent a level of input progressive organizers have been fighting for for years.

“What emerges is that two defendants in the 2017 killing of 19-year-old Fontaine Sanders in a North Lawndale park recently obtained a deal from Foxx’s office in which they were allowed to plead to aggravated battery with a firearm instead of standing trial for murder. Having awaited trial in lockup for six years, they will serve another six under the deal before their release. The judge in the case openly marveled at the defendants’ good fortune. ‘Sometimes life isn’t fair,’ he said.”

In response to an email from Ald. Debra Silverstein seeking support for the Israel Solidarity Resolution, Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez wrote, “Although I wholeheartedly agree that the attacks from HAMAS are brutal and that no one should be subjected to that violence, I also understand that the situation is more nuanced than what this resolution expresses…Any resolution that speaks on this matter should, in my opinion, also center the humanity of Palestinians who are confined to an open-air prison and whose lands have been occupied for decades.”