“Has it been a challenge? Well, Congress can’t get their act together. The governor of Texas is determined to create chaos. We have brought calm structure to a very volatile situation,” he said.

FEST is a festival celebrating of the end of the academic year at DePaul – open to all students with limited guest tickets for sale. An announcement on social media said: “Given the campus environment, FEST 2024 cannot proceed as planned.”

Conyears-Ervin is accused of firing two employees who warned her not to misuse city property for personal reasons. The two employees fired by Conyears-Ervin also alleged the treasurer used her assistant to run personal errands, including planning her daughter’s birthday party, and that the treasurer asked BMO Harris Bank, which does business with the city, to offer a mortgage to the owner of a West Side church who also rents space to her husband’s aldermanic office.

The charges are the first from an ongoing federal grand jury investigation into Loretto’s COVID-19 vaccination program, after the hospital admitted to giving hundreds of COVID shots to people who were not yet eligible to get them.

Northwestern established its Qatar campus (NU-Q) in 2008 including a branch of Medill – its Evanston-based journalism school. The report, compiled by alumni affiliated with the Coalition Against Anti-Semitism at Northwestern, says that Northwestern’s relationship with Al Jazeera potentially violates U.S. law and national security interests under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

“To the Medill students and journalists within ear shot, I say to you: our work is not about objectivity,” Journalism instructor Steven Thrasher said. “Our work is not about ‘scooping’ one another. Our work is about you putting your brilliant minds to work, and opening your compassionate hearts, and linking your arms together understanding all of our fates are interconnected.”

Ald. Brian Hopkins wants to know how many CTA buses will be shuttling delegates to and from the United Center, whether dedicated bus lanes will be used, and whether a transit agency that has struggled to find enough drivers to meet its daily schedule will be able to recruit enough employees without “adjusting service.”

The City Council’s Finance Committee unanimously approved the mayor’s two-year plan to offer nearly $2.4 million in financial relief to homeowners and business owners drowning in water bills tied to leaks in underground service lines repaired on or after Jan. 1, 2023.

“(Mayor Brandon) Johnson was here asking for $100 million+ and the Chicago Public Schools have asked for $50 billion. They are asking for $50 billion from the state of Illinois to prop up the school district in Chicago,” said state Rep. Dan Caulkins. “I don’t think the people in our districts really care to do that, not when students can’t meet reading and math proficiencies.”

“The teachers unions-induced school closures harmed students academically, mentally, and emotionally, with virtually no reduction in overall coronavirus transmission or child mortality. … In Chicago, home of the nation’s third-largest public school system, the local union took to Twitter to demonize those who favored reopening schools…”

The largely symbolic measure highlights more than a dozen reasons why the CTA is in need of change and follows Gov. JB Pritzker’s comments that the agency was due for an “evolution” of leadership.

The shelter’s February 2023 opening inspired residents to help their new neighbors and led neighborhood leaders to call for “collective liberation” and a united front between Black and Latino residents of all tenures in the city. Organizers with the Chicago4All initiative have held numerous events over the last year, seeking to integrate Wadsworth residents and other resettled migrant families living in Woodlawn with longtime neighbors.

Last weekend, at least 31 people were shot, six fatally, in gun violence across Chicago, police said.

“We’re going to stay here until DePaul either divests fully [from Israel] or forces us out,” student protester Henna Ayesh said Sunday. “And seeing people in Gaza recognize us as the college revolution has really inspired us to keep going. We’ve found community here.”