The reasons Ald. Nicole Lee cited for her opposition to the shelter at 39th and Canal were concerns over migrants staying on land in a heavily industrial area that she said was not fully vetted for residential use and is surrounded by train tracks. City officials plan to close the Standard Club shelter downtown before the Democratic National Convention.

Among the demands, the union wants a policy that prioritizes saving the jobs of minority teachers in the event of layoffs. Its proposal includes nothing about teacher performance.

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates noted that the teachers union has ​“always used our collective bargaining table as a way to push forward policies that impact the lives of our young people. We will continue to do that. Our young people and their ability to be housed remains a subject of bargaining for us until those young people have homes.”

“He’s a snowflake, a grape who can’t take the pressure of leadership. And there are just about 100 days until the hard left tear up the Democratic National Convention. What a party it will be.”

“We are prepared for the DNC,” Johnson said. “If there is a mayor that understands the value of protests, it’s me. I’ve led many demonstrations before and I understand the value of being able to express your political belief or ideas in order to move a government. That’s why I’m mayor.”

“The encampment has created [a] systematic disruption of campus,” President Paul Alivisatos wrote. “… The encampment protesters have flouted our policies rather than working within them, despite UChicago being an institution that allows for many ways to express views.”

Of the district’s 634 schools, 39 still have at least one resource officer. Now those schools are being forced to remove their police officers by the start of the next academic year, regardless of whether the local school leaders believe officers are improving safety.

Protest camps are ongoing at the University of Chicago and DePaul University. An encampment at Northwestern University ended on Monday after a deal with administrators, though organizers say protests will continue. Students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago and Roosevelt University have also participated in recent protests.

“The agreement’s substance will further entrench identity, rather than truth, as a foundation of university life. Until universities return to the business of education and reject identity politics, they will be subject to such holdups.”

About 50 students and scholars from several universities attended the keynote address, “The Fallaciously Primordial Male: Desires, Norms & Links.”

“The student demands from the University of Chicago’s anti-Israel encampment is a giant progressive wishlist that goes well beyond Gaza.”

“A $100,000 or more in overtime – that should be a never, ever, ever situation,” said Civic Federation President Joe Ferguson. “Period. That is a screaming red flag that something internally is not being tracked, and monitored, and addressed – because it simply should not happen.”

“This is a peaceful, non-violent protest that is not unlike the American pastime of similar protests that we saw against the apartheid situation in South Africa, that we saw against the Vietnam War in 1968. This is exactly the sphere in which this is happening,” said Ahmed Rehab, of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Chicago.