Evanston Township High School officials believe these single-race classes offer underperforming minority students greater access to advanced instruction. Though their initial proposal received significant media backlash, Evanston officials remain committed to their race-conscious approach.

“The growing wave of arrivals make our immigration advocacy more challenging. Their arrival has created some tensions, some questioning,” said U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García, whose largely Latino district includes a large immigrant population. People have been “waiting for decades for an opportunity to get a green card to legalize and have a pathway to citizenship.”

“There have been times where things have gotten or seem to have gotten out of hand,” Rich Guidice, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s chief of staff, said. “I would just say that there’s a lot of contentious situations that are taking place in our city at this time. And we’re just trying to balance it with First Amendment privileges and rights.”

Ameya Pawar, a senior adviser at the Economic Security Project — which is providing pro bono services to support the city’s feasibility study, according to Grigbsy — said a public option for a grocery store could allow the city to take a more active role in economic development than it is able to when handing out tax incentives.

In total, Chicago’s animal control officers have picked up more than 4,000 dogs since the start of 2022. That is on top of the dogs being brought directly into the shelter. “A lot of people aren’t working right now. Some people went back to work, and they don’t have time for their pet anymore,” a city spokesman said. “Evictions started again, so that’s a part of it too, that we’re seeing.”

“The mayor seeks to advance his progressive agenda by punishing the business community with unfunded mandates, regardless of ability to pay. These mandates will worsen Chicago’s status as a hostile place for employers of every size and sector to do business, discouraging economic development, investment and job growth in communities that need it the most.”

About 5,500 general education students who were previously eligible for bus transportation were not offered busing this year — mostly those who attend magnet and selective-enrollment schools. Additionally, the school district is still working to shorten bus rides for more than 100 students with disabilities to comply with state law.

United and American airlines are slated to share a new “global terminal” handling both domestic and international flights – a project funded in part by airlines. But the city has confirmed the the next major phase of O’Hare work is $1.5 billion — 24% — over budget. Ald. Matt O’Shea said it is particularly “concerning” that United has revived a 2018 threat to move its corporate headquarters at Willis Tower out of Chicago.

Johnson: “Everyone knows that the right-wing extremism in this country has targetted Democratically-ran cities and quite frankly, they’ve been very intentional about going after Democratically-ran cities that are led by people of color…. They’re still mad that a black man is free in this country. This is nothing new.”

The village says it was informed that an unspecified entity was considering several suburban hotels, including three in Schaumburg, to house migrants — and board members responded with a strategy already being used in nearby Rosemont. Rosemont passed a tax on long-term stays if a migrant housing plan is executed. The ordinance includes a $1,000 per month tax for stays of 30 days or more.