On Wednesday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was asked about the White Sox stadium in a recent press conference. He mentioned conversations with White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf while broaching the subject of the Bears stadium desires, too.

A South Side Chicago activist, who launched a state representative bid in hopes of curbing the repercussions of the Windy City’s sanctuary status, said on Wednesday that city leaders need to understand “illegal” means “illegal.”

“He’s a coward,” Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara afterward. “You had your attorney tell the judge you’re calling the vote. Call the vote. But he didn’t do it.”

Chronic absenteeism rates are higher in Chicago than statewide, with 44% of low-income Chicago students missing at least 10% of their days in school.

As some electric vehicle owners were shocked by below-zero operation issues recently, Pace officials unveiled their first battery-powered bus. Let’s hope the transit agency isn’t jolted by performance problems. Outside of the Pace debut, it’s been a rough few weeks for what is supposed to be our automotive future. Electric vehicles are the cornerstone of the clean-energy policy of the administration of President Joe Biden in order to help reduce the nation’s carbon footprint.

Growing up, Chesa Boudin, the progressive former district attorney of San Francisco, stunk as a baseball player in the Hyde Park-Kenwood Little League. Now, at 43, he doesn’t have much to fondly remember by way of athletic accomplishments from those days. What he does recall, however, is one stiflingly humid summer day in the late 1980s over at the baseball diamond on 47th Street and Cornell Drive, when he took his eye off a pitch. Men were arguing on the nearby basketball court. Then, shots rang out. The coaches shouted. They yelled at the boys to drop to the ground

Despite the City Council delaying a vote on a supportive resolution, Johnson expressed that “the killing needs to stop.”

Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) sponsored the resolution. “So as the individuals who make it to our shores, to our country, I think we should have a program that protects them and gives them peace while they are here. And it gives a pathway to many of the individuals who have been here,” Lopez said.

The crackdown is an effort to rein in harmful effects dollar stores have on food access in poor neighborhoods while pushing operators to better maintain the stores, according to sponsor Ald. Matt O’Shea, 19th.

For 30 years, Chicago’s mayors were betting a casino might be the answer to the city’s budget woes. But new numbers indicate that gamble may not be paying off as hoped.

Daniel Horton, head of the Climate Change Research Group at Northwestern University, saidHorton said he believes the government can play a role in addressing the inequities. He would like to see the government “incentivize private institutions or potentially have public institutions install chargers in locations that at the moment are not financially viable, but in the future might become more viable.”

A monthslong feud between a Woodlawn landlord and his tenants over allegations of unlivable conditions reached a boiling point last week, when a skeptical judge threatened to jail tenants he found to be lying.

“So, you can imagine our skepticism when Kiana DiStasi, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of Chicago Loop Alliance, spoke glowingly about the downtown neighborhood’s crime statistics. The alliance, if you haven’t already guessed, promotes the Loop.”

A bizarre standoff has developed in the office created 10 years ago to provide the City Council with independent advice on financial issues and avoid a repeat of the parking meter fiasco. Budget Committee Chair Jason Ervin (28th) wants his colleagues to empower him to dump Kenneth Williams Sr. as the $123,000-a-year director of the Council’s Office of Financial Analysis after Williams refused to leave to make way for a director of Ervin’s choosing.

The City Council is being asked to revive an underground warehouse development on the Southeast Side that’s being pushed by the Ozinga family. After a city zoning official ruled last year that the project ran afoul of Chicago’s ban on mining operations, it appeared that the Ozingas — owners of the namesake concrete and materials business — had little choice but to give up on

“What the CTU seeks is complete and unchallenged domination over education.”

The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation into Northwestern University over its handling of anti-Semitic incidents, Campus Reform has learned.

Nearly 30,000 cars were taken from their owners in Chicago last year, yet police efforts to catch the bandits reached record lows, one nonprofit says.

The number of vehicle thefts reported last year is the highest in 23 years, according to the Illinois Policy Institute. Not only did the arrest rate for car theft fall to 2.6%, but data collected through the Chicago Data Portal showed that it was the lowest level since the city started tracking crime online in 2001.