Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul alleged in court documents that Trump ignored a requirement that he install a screen to prevent fish and other aquatic life from being sucked into the cooling pipes and killed. Raoul further alleged that the hotel had been deliberately underreporting how much heated water it was pumping back into the Chicago River.

On X, formerly Twitter, the alderman posted a photo of a pager with the message, “Mazol tov” [sic]. The expression, correctly spelled “Mazel tov,” is a Jewish phrase expressing congratulations. Reilly took down the post about an hour after putting it up.

The proposal is designed to alleviate property tax burdens on working-class and low-income households by tying the property tax liability to their ability to pay. The legislation, which builds on a previous circuit breaker program for senior Illinoisans, would ensure that property taxes do not exceed a manageable percentage of household income.

Teachers in CPS elementary schools and say they spoke no Spanish, while their migrant students spoke no English, making communication virtually impossible; They added that because their schools were located in predominantly Black neighborhoods, they offered no English as a Second Language (ESL) support. Despite this, they say they were instructed by school administrators to give their migrant students a 70 percent in every subject and pass them on to the next grade.

The owners of the United Center have revealed more details of their $7 billion plan to redevelop the arena’s surroundings, seeking city approval for nearly 9,500 apartments, more than 1,300 hotel rooms and a residential high-rise that would dwarf buildings in the surrounding area.

The Chicago Board of Education is one of the state’s largest employers. Although student enrollment has declined, the number of teachers, principals, school support staff, and central office administrators directly employed by the school district has increased — growing from around 36,000 staff five years ago to more than 41,000 in the 2023-24 school year.

Ethics Committee chairman Matt Martin has another ordinance pending: a detailed blueprint for how public financing would work in Chicago, including how Council candidates would qualify for matching funds and how much money they would receive. The ordinance doesn’t say how the city would pay for the program — only that the “Fair Elections Fund” would receive “not less than one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of the annual city budget,” – $16.77 million of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $16.77 billion 2024 budget .

The CTA didn’t engage in a competitive bidding process for the pilot, and the agency failed to hold an open discussion with its own governing board about the AI gun-detection program. CTA officials have refused to answer questions about key features of the program or their decision to pay the tech firm to launch a pilot with no clear end date. CTA procurement policies allowed President Dorval Carter to authorize the contract without board approval.

After the experience over the weekend, Coco Bar co-owner Erika Espinosa felt there was a double standard at play that allows for other celebrations to spill into the streets but not for Mexican Independence Day, she said. “I think it’s the city. They don’t allow Mexican people to celebrate. We are the biggest minority [population] in the city. We contribute a lot economically. We don’t deserve to be canceled for our celebrations.”

“Why did so many Americans march for George Floyd and demand that Black Lives Matter and not one of them cares about pumping graduates-in-name-only into an already struggling America where they will be struggling to make a living with two hands tied behind their backs? Why do we care about the theater of racism far more than we do about the transformative power of education?”

The CTA report found that overall train and bus usage was up 13.2 percent overall in May of this year, compared to May 2023.

Jeff Zyijack is tired of keeping track of the number of times gunfire either wakes him up or forces him to take cover. “My concern when I started working from home was really like grass and taxes,” he said. “Now it’s shootings—and I don’t know what to do.”

“As we approach the closing days of Chicago’s utilization of the gunshot detection technology ShotSpotter, we see again the willful exclusion of aldermen, public safety experts and, most importantly, residents who live in communities plagued by senseless violence. Instead, the administration has silenced these voices and remains in the echo chamber of slogan-based demands from ‘advocates’ whose suburban upbringing has apparently gifted them the wisdom to know what’s best for Chicago’s Black and brown residents.”