State officials said in March that moving toward one system would shift “permanent shelter management to the non-profit workforce,” a change from the million-dollar out-of-state contractor currently staffing many of the migrant shelters.

Ald. Debra Silverstein said that two days after Hamas launched a deadly attack that left about 1,200 people dead and some 250 others taken hostage — Kennedy Bartley tweeted, “From the river to the sea. Palestine will be free. Amen!” Silverstein said Thursday, “To me and, I’m sure, to the majority of the mainstream Jewish community, it was similar to a congratulations to Hamas, an internationally-known terrorist organization.”

“When you’re a democratic socialist who has some very extreme, left-wing views, that closes off a lot of opportunities to grow relationships with centrists or even moderate Republicans. The city is suffering from that,” Ald. Brendan Reilly said.

Police believe the incident outside Haven Middle School, in the northwest part of Evanston, stemmed from an altercation that happened on Wednesday. An adult and five children were arrested and taken to the Evanston police station; At least three children are facing charges, including mob action.

While the helicopter video does not show an up-close perspective of the 59 arrests that happened that night, it does provide a much better look at the bigger picture than has been seen up to this point.

Chicago Police Department officials in the First District said they anticipate large crowds and caravans that could gridlock parts of downtown as early as Friday evening. The city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications isn’t planning to shut down any streets but is encouraging residents to prepare for longer commutes.

Mayor Brandon Johnson said, “I’ve been an organizer, I’ve been an elected official and I know the damage that has been done over the course of bad decisions. But as a city, we have to be prudent and fiscally responsible in this moment.”

Proponents argued 3 in 4 bulbs are improperly disposed of and release mercury and other toxins. Opponents of the bill argued the conversion will cost businesses the most.

The Trump Tower “has created and continues to create a a public nuisance in violation of Illinois law,” and the intake system operates “in a manner that substantially and unreasonably interferes with the public right to fish and otherwise recreate in the Chicago River,” Cook County Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus L. Wilson ruled. Illinois Attorney General Kwame said he will also seek a civil penalty the state violations.

“I just feel compelled, in my time left in office, to say truths that need to be spoken: It was racist. It was racist,” Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said of opponents’ attacks on the law and her advocacy. “There’s policy disagreement, and then there is what we saw in relation to this legislation, and what we saw wasn’t policy

In podcast interviews in 2021 and earlier this year, Johnson aide and former executive director of United Working Families Kennedy Bartley talked openly about defunding or the “abolition” of police.