Alden Global Capital, the owner of the Chicago Tribune, announced in 2022 that its fleet of newspapers wouldn’t make political endorsements for president, governor or Senate anymore. At the time, the Tribune editorial board was allowed to endorse candidates for governor and senator in the 2022 race, since the process had already started.

An analysis found that librarians were present at only 10 percent of schools where Black students are the largest percentage of the student body. Comparatively, 25 percent of schools had librarians where white kids are the majority, and 21 percent where Hispanic students are the highest racial group, the study found.

A looming cost is pensions for non-teaching staff. Former Mayor Lightfoot shifted a portion of pension costs onto the district in 2020, a practice Mayor Brandon Johnson has tried to continue. But so far this year, the district has refused to pay a $175 million contribution to the municipal pension fund, putting the city on the hook as it faces its own deficit.

The jobs are being cut, “To further our focus on our core retail pharmacy business,” said spokesman Fraser Engerman, in an email. The Deerfield-based company is also eliminating 215 open positions.

“We know that the environment is very fraught and volatile right now. We know that. How’s that gonna manifest itself, we don’t know,” said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. Dart and others said the threat of violence will not end on Election Day. In fact, they said the threats could increase regardless of which side wins.

The report follows a two-year study by the Chicago Urban League. Funding for reparations, they proposed, would come directly from revenue generated from the state’s cannabis sales tax.

“When I think about the fate of Black and brown children, as a mother of two Black boys, I cringe,” said Chicago Public Schools parent Cleopatra Draper. “It’s already projected by third grade that there’s a pipeline to prison. Now you want to buy my schools to miseducate my children. It’s not for sale.”

Police said that the suspect, identified as Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, was identified less than 30 minutes after the shooting, at which point he allegedly shot at responders before police “returned fire, striking the offender.”

“More Blacks than ever in my neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago are done with Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party. For years, they’ve been told how to vote like mindless sheep and for years they’ve been told to keep waiting for their political favors like mindless sheep. Year after year, nothing changes.”

Comedian Bill Maher also acknowledged the Chicago Teachers Union’s comment during the COVID-19 pandemic that attempts to return to in-person learning were “rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny.” Maher said, “No, it was rooted in reading, writing and arithmetic.”

“I think the whole thing was a flop. It just shows there is no fiscal accountability,” said Ald. Scott Waguespack, the former Finance Committee chair and a frequent critic of Johnson’s. “When I see him ignoring his own orders, and other elected officials ignoring those orders, it just shows that to me it’s just a charade that they put in place in the first place.”

“Past mayors and City Councils all share part of the blame. But it is (Mayor Brandon) Johnson who now faces the music. He has complained multiple times about the lot his predecessors left him, but ordinary Chicagoans aren’t patient with such blame-shifting. They elect mayors to run the city and solve problems, not to whine about their misfortune.”

“It was a good start, but it’s not enough,” NietoGomez, executive director of the Alliance of the SouthEast, an umbrella group of community organizations formed in response to various proposals to redevelop the USX site over the past decade, says of the event.

PepsiCo said the decision was difficult but it described the 60-year-old building as a facility with “physical limitations.” The company said it would pay workers for the next 60 days even though they won’t be required to work.

Last year, regulators at the Illinois Commerce Commission paused most spending on the pipeline program pending a state investigation of the plan to replace thousands of miles of the aging pipes that deliver natural gas to Chicago homes. Initially estimated at $2 billion when the program launched in 2007, costs have soared to almost $11 billion with only about 38 percent of the work done.

Joe Ferguson of the Civic Federation and Bob Boik of the Commercial Club: “Government budgeting is not just about balancing books — it also is about achieving outcomes. And the worst possible outcome is that city budgeteers simply hack into the public safety budget to close a fiscal gap.”

Ald. Debra Silverstein attends the same synagogue as the victim and said her community perceives the shooting as a targeted act. “A man wearing the Kippah as he was walking to synagogue was shot,” she said. “And this has escalated our anxiety.”