A North Side alderman’s decision to not talk about crime because she believes doing so is racist and contributes to a negative “perception” failed to reduce crime in 2024. In fact, crime in Edgewater, the neighborhood that constitutes much of Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth’s 48th Ward, jumped nearly 50 percent in Edgewater while overall crime increased by 9 percent.

Despite the IPO’s failure to launch, Bally’s still has a contractual obligation with the city to incorporate a 25 percent minority ownership stake into the Chicago casino, either through a rebooted offering or other investment vehicle.

Mayoral advisor Jason Lee called Lori Lightfoot, Johnson’s former mayoral opponent and ire of the Chicago Teachers Union, a “brilliant legal mind.” Johnson also plans to meet with Arne Duncan, a civic leader in Chicago, former CEO of Chicago Public Schools and former U.S. Secretary of Education, who has also been a pointed target of the CTU in the past.

Leading task force member Leo Terrell said his team will meet with university leaders, affected students and staff, local law enforcement and community members about the reported incidents and will consider whether remedial action is necessary.

The land in question was allegedly once owned by Henyard’s boyfriend.

Garcia was not the only high-profile individual angry at ICE. Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Stacy Davis Gates called the arrest “an act of terror” in a separate public statement.

The downtown reshuffling comes at a tricky time as companies push to get workers back in offices full time. According to return-to-office data for January, Chicago office visits were down 47 percent from January 2019. That’s a huge difference from December 2024, which was 31 percent less than December 2019.

The training – mandatory for all students, faculty and staff – relies on separate datasets to show anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hate crimes. For anti-Semitic attacks, it cites official FBI data. But for Muslim attacks, the training showed unverified figures from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, without citing the source. As a result, the training falsely suggests there were five times more incidents against Muslims than Jews.

“This isn’t a ‘buy now, pay later’ loan — it’s buy now, pray later, as there’s no way in hell that the city will ever be capable of paying back such a debt.”

An investigation last fall found that recruitment stumbles, a lack of a clear education plan, and frustration at the state with a dearth of outcomes data ultimately led to the decision to pause the Back to Our Future program, which lost its funding from the Illinois Department of Human Services last spring. Ultimately, the program cost roughly $8 million. It steered about 150 students back to school and helped 60 graduate, most of them from alternative high schools.

In 2022 — the most recent year not affected by Hollywood strikes for which figures are available — the state had a record-setting $691 million in film production expenditures.

“Hey, Mr. and Ms. Bond Investor, this mayor and council — you know, the ones asking you to invest in the future of Chicago — aren’t willing to pay a nickel during the remainder of their terms to cover any part of what the city will owe you over the next 30 years. But surely some future mayor and aldermen will step up. Worry not.”

According to the complaint, Trump’s orders “have had a significant chilling effect” on Chicago Women in Trades’ First Amendment rights and the “diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts it promotes in the skilled trades industry.”

The Evanston City Council passed the Workers’ Retention Ordinance Monday, requiring hotels, restaurants, cafeterias and educational institutions with at least 200 contracted positions to take steps to retain existing workforce at the same pay if the institution changes contractors. Currently, only Northwestern University meets the threshold.

When confronted with photos of a crumbling building Obama Foundation honchos were in a pickle. They had no ready euphemism for ‘significant cracking.’ They could double down on their commitment to diversity and risk creating a Crumbling Tower of Babble or side with the white guys and risk alienating the diverse supplier community.”

Chicago, with its taxpayer burden of -$40,600, ranks among the “Bottom Five Sinkhole Cities.”

“My conversation with the mayor has been around his priorities for the parks. He wants me to address homelessness in the parks. He wants me to ensure that our parks are safe spaces for young people. He wants me to expand youth opportunities. He wants me to ensure that we have equitable facility and capital improvements,” said Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, the youngest Chicago alderperson ever and the Council’s first

“Pandemic aid, which papered over the city’s fiscal fissures these past few years, is gone now. So both CPS and the city say their taxpayers are tapped out and can’t pay into the plan. Never mind that it’s the same pool of taxpayers — residents and businesses in Chicago — who pay the freight for both governmental bodies.”

David Greising, of the Better Government Association: “Operating from her perch at the CTU, Gates wields substantial influence over the Chicago school system. She does so without oversight … And the amount of sway she holds over Johnson remains a mystery.”