Still, Chicago gets about 21 percent of the funding distributed through the state’s evidence-based formula — which allocates money to districts based on their students’ needs — but serves about 18 percent of Illinois’ students, said State Superintendent Tony Sanders. “I think it’s important to note that we still have districts that are below what Chicago was funded,” Sanders said.

In court Monday, city attorneys argued that the U.S. Secret Service still has not revealed where it would put its fencing surrounding the red hard security perimeter.

The Damen Green Line project was first announced in 2017, with a projected completion date sometime in 2020 at a cost of $50 million. But in fact, Mayor Brandon Johnson cut the ribbon at the new station on Monday, and taxpayers paid more than $80 million for the station, with funding from the Kinzie Corridor Tax Increment Financing District.

One attendee posted online Saturday, “My friend and I were leaving the festival walking from the main entrance down W Harrison Street between State and Plymouth, and a man jumped from the shadows of a parking lot and reached for my gold necklaces and kinda throat punched me and tore them off.”

After pouring federal COVID relief dollars into a once barebones budget for such programs, Chicago Public Schools is now cutting funding for academic, arts, sports and mentoring before- and after-school programs. This summer, the district touted a 2024-25 budget that “doubles down” on a COVID-era spending boost for extracurricular programs, which officials said has sped up students’ recovery. But in fact, funding for these programs is down by roughly a third.

The buildings back up against the Dirksen Federal Building on Dearborn Street, and are on the National Register of Historic Places.

The amount of space leased on average at top properties in the West Loop, downtown’s largest and most active submarket, shrank more than 40 percent in 2023 and 2024 when compared with pre-pandemic deals, according to commercial real estate firm Cresa.

“Remote work’s relentless pummeling of downtown office landlords isn’t slowing down.”

To showcase his city, the mayor puts his antipolice policies on hold until after the convention.

Last weekend, at least 21 people were shot, one fatally, across Chicago, police said.

Not only did all 50 members of the City Council unanimously approve the ordinance requiring CPD to conduct the study, but it is also required by the terms of the consent decree, the federal court order designed to compel CPD to change the way it trains, supervises and disciplines officers. CPD is in full compliance with just 7 percent of that more than 5-year-old court order.

“The Kennedy unfortunately faces terrible traffic already, so there are going to be a lot of frustrated delegates and other Democratic National Convention attendees,” DePaul University transportation expert Joseph Schweiterman said.