Two Evanston Township High School employees, a teacher and another worker, wore “Free Palestine” t-shirts to school last month. Particularly galling to the Jewish parents is the fact that the T-shirts were worn around the same time that ETHS sent out specific guidelines on what could not be worn at school on Halloween, so that certain individuals and groups would not feel harassed nor intimidated.

But the debate will not end once the City Council decides whether to ask voters to weigh in on the crisis during the March primary. The arrival of the migrants has fundamentally changed the debate over what Chicago owes immigrants to the city, and frayed relations between Chicago’s Black, Latino and Asian communities.

The residents joined members of the Alliance of the Southeast and Friends of the Parks to protest the 25-foot-tall waste dump U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to build on the existing confined disposal facility off of Steelworkers Park.

The haphazard transferral of migrants not only calls into question the best use of taxpayer money and donations, but also fosters discussion about the moral obligations of faith-based groups.

At least 40 people in the last month have left Chicago’s 1st District station to either move back home or elsewhere in the States, with the help of Catholic Charities of Chicago. Brayan Lozano, head of the volunteer group of the Police Station Response Team, said, “The word of the situation in Chicago is beginning to spread.”

Data from the Cook County medical examiner’s office shows the city is in the midst of a sustained uptick in gun-related juvenile killings. Fifty-five kids age 17 and younger have been shot to death in Chicago since the start of the year.

A victory for Chicago workers could spell trouble for Chicago employers. Many of them say this new ordinance will kill their small business.

The businesses owned by James Bracken have garnered government contracts from across Cook County worth up to $250 million for demolition services, equipment rental and materials. At the same time, Bracken and the businesses themselves have contributed nearly $375,000 to a wide array of local elected officials, including a half-dozen who have been charged or come under federal investigation.