The goal of sourcing the city’s power purely from carbon-free sources was first established by Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2017. His successor, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, struck a 2022 deal with Constellation, an electricity supplier, to purchase the city’s energy from the developer Swift Current Energy beginning in 2025. Swift Current began construction on the 3,800-acre, 593-megawatt solar farm in central Illinois as part of the same five-year, $422 million agreement. Straddling two counties in central Illinois, the Double Black Diamond Solar project is now the largest solar installation east of the Mississippi River.

Sam Toia, president of the Illinois Restaurant Association, urged President Donald Trump to think long and hard before following through on his threat to carry out mass deportations of immigrants. “This ain’t just the hospitality industry. It’s the construction industry. It’s the farm industry. It will put havoc on the economy,” Toia said.

“This community is ready to stand up. This community is ready to fight for our values,” Evanston Mayor Dan Biss said. He joined Rev. Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston, and several faith leaders representing different religions, heralding the church’s decision.

She explained that they let agents into their home but that they were only looking for the one person on their arrest warrant. She said they did not ask them for any other sort of documentation and that the visit did not worry her as she hadn’t done anything wrong.

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s statement reads, in part, “The report establishes the absence of competent governance and continued violations of governance norms during Mayor Henyard’s tenure. The costs to taxpayers have been significant, starting with a substantial budget deficit, higher costs for basic necessities like liability insurance, and many lawsuits against the Village directly related to allegations of misconduct by Henyard and others.”

“This is not a typical school board election in any way, shape, or form,” said Jonathan Collins, assistant professor of political science and education at Teachers College at Columbia University. “It’s an entirely new system at a critical moment when education is arguably more politicized than we’ve ever seen.”

Records released via a public records request show that board member Rafael Yanez — a longtime Chicago Teachers Union ally appointed to the board by Mayor Brandon Johnson in October — texted CTU vice president Jackson Potter during the Nov. 1 board meeting, “What are the biggest push back from CPS re contract negotiations?” Potter first asked “Who is this?” before responding to Yanez: “Academic freedom, money overall, staffing, evaluation, class size.” Yanez reacted with a thumbs-up emoji.

The arrival of Google and TIF subsidies for residential conversions have signaled that the city is betting on Downtown revitalization, said Michael Fassnacht, chief growth officer at Clayco construction firm and former CEO of World Business Chicago. Chicago has been recognized as offering some of the “most generous subsidies” in the United States, according to the Wall Street Journal, and developers have taken note.

“Many Democratic leaders refuse to show any kind of working relationship with the Trump administration, and that’s only going to hurt the people that they pretend to care about,” said Ald. Ray Lopez. He compared Democrats’ maneuvering on immigration to the way they handled abortion. “(Democrats) took government for granted (on abortion), and they’re doing it again with immigration,” he said.

A change in zoning rules would allow for more dense development, the city says, with a series of towers containing an estimated 18,000 housing units included in the city’s proposal to “upzone” Broadway between Montrose and Devon avenues.

“I think we’re still heading in the wrong direction,” said Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski. “Most of the decisions that Brandon Johnson is making are bad for business and bad for people. The kinds of things he’s doing is chasing people away, and I’d say the same thing for Gov. Pritzker. He continues to raise costs in the city and in the state. It keeps giving people a reason to leave.”

“It’s a pretty high-risk mission we’re going on. This truly is a targeted ICE mission, because they’re not sweeping neighborhoods like people are trying to imply,” the TV host said. Dr. Phil also asked Trump’s border czar if his agents are “going into schools and arresting children at schools?” and “is anything like that happening?” Tom Homan answered sternly, “No, sir.”

Trump administration Border Czar Tom Homan said Sunday’s targeted enforcements in Chicago resulted in arrests of aggravated sex offenders, convicted murderers, members of the Tren de Aragua gang and a few collaterals. He said “national security threats” were taken off the streets of Chicago.

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates and Johnson regularly text humorous or supportive messages. In one note early in his administration, she shared some advice that didn’t work too well in Greek mythology: “Fly closer to the sun,” she said. “Go faster. Get bigger. Don’t slow down.”

“To be clear, the Central Loop TIF was not about public expenditures in a vacuum. It was designed to foster private investment through the leverage of public dollars. … If we develop a resilient property tax financing structure and the public and private sectors work collaboratively, then a transformative idea like the ‘cultural stadium’ becomes a reality.”

The ages of the victims range from 15 to 53.