The key, Buckner said, is forging a partnership — not just with the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, which financed Soldier Field, but with the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, which has even larger bonding powers. “A fan experience in Chicago really should be more than walking under Lake Shore Drive in frigid temperatures,” he said.

Johnson did not commit to a plan Tuesday when asked whether he would stick with the scheduled March 16 date when migrants who have stayed longer than 60 days at shelters will be evicted. The policy could lead to the removal of as many as 5,673 migrant residents. “We’re doing everything in our power to demonstrate compassion,” Johnson said at a Tuesday news conference.

She said to expect debate to “get a little hot in this city for the next few months.” The teachers’ demands include a library and librarian in every school, the construction of green schools, and

“I’m not going to be part of the narrative of Lady Macbeth to a Black man that doesn’t have a brain. Like, that ain’t my role. My role is to run the Chicago Teachers Union,” Davis Gates said. She said for anyone to think otherwise is racist and sexist.

Before the vote concerned community members spoke during a committee hearing, a majority of the testimony opposing the measure, calling the Chicago Teachers Union-backed plan unfair and confusing. Some expressing concern that the teachers union will be a majority of the board— leading to misrepresentation of community members.

“The shift towards militant strategies since 2010 has resulted in a sharp decline in educational standards. The prolonged closure of school campuses during the pandemic also had a devastating effect on student achievement and youth violence. Student proficiency remains worse than before the pandemic.”

The average age a Chicagoan witnesses a shooting is just 14 years old, according to a recent study by the Journal of the American Medical Association. It’s especially important that this conversation centers Black and Latino kids, 19-year-old Edgar Vilchez said. Last year, 75 percent of shooting victims were Black and 19 percent were Latino, according to city data.

The city’s top cultural chief, Erin Harkey, is still on the job more than two weeks after she was terminated by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

Among the outstanding bills, Dolton owes more than $427,000 to a company that repaved village streets in 2002, and more than $400,000 to a tree-trimming company that worked for the village last year.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle thinks cash aid should be a permanent part of the social safety net; she notes that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Panthers called for guaranteed income. So, briefly, did President Richard Nixon. “The federal government is really the only entity that has the resources to do this on the mass scale that it needs to be

“By prioritizing all-electric construction for new buildings, the city can shift its attention to retrofitting the remainder of Chicago’s building supply, channeling resources into the communities that need the investment most. … Electrifying buildings will put our current workforce to good use and expand new job opportunities. A recent study showed energy efficiency and building electrification will employ at least twice as many workers as fossil fuels in buildings.”

Some neighborhood districts have flourished while the retail vacancy rate on the Magnificent Mile hit 30 percent, and the Loop’s vacancy rate is over 20 percent.

The Chicago Teachers Union this summer will negotiate their new contract with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, their former lobbyist. Key demands include cost of living adjustments meeting or exceeding inflation and prohibiting use of teacher ratings for layoffs. CTU also wants to add “safety committees” in every school, including a restorative justice coordinator on each committee, and lower the enrollment caps in charter schools.

Chicago police said no injuries were reported in the fires, which broke out around 2 a.m. in the 8000 block of South South Shore Drive. Bus driver Anastasios Adamopoulos 63, who lives in South Shore, pulled the bus over when he saw the flames and jumped off along with a passenger. Together they ran to the homes and alerted residents.

The Sox are now worth an estimated $2 billion, a valuation based in part on a lease that limits the amount they owe the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority. For the first 10 years, the Sox paid no annual rent if attendance fell below 1.2 million, which it usually did. Under the current terms, the team forks out $1.5 million annually but controls revenue from ticket sales, concessions, parking, and merchandise.

The city, run by a progressive Democrat who’s been in power for less than a year, has been working with developers to refine plans to repurpose buildings along and near LaSalle Street, once known as the Wall Street of Chicago. An announcement is expected by the summer after high interest rates delayed the project, she said.