The updated Human Relations Chapter of the village’s code does not conflict with federal law, as it still requires the village and its police department to assist federal officers in serving criminal warrants, officials said.

Despite being rebuffed by the Board of Education so far on his attempts to have CPS pay its share of the pension cost, Mayor Brandon Johnson said the “vast majority of board members recognize that securing the pensions and retirement for their workers is their responsibility.” He vowed to work with them and the Illinois General Assembly to “disentangle” city and school district finances. “It’s ultimately on my watch to ensure that we create systems that are economically solvent,” he said. “And I’m bold enough and audacious enough to take on that challenge.”

“The next leader of Chicago Public Schools will confront a brutal situation thanks to a mayor who refuses to acknowledge the urgent need to rationalize a bloated system with far too many schools for the number of students it’s serving. … For Johnson, what an abdication of duty to the taxpayers of this city.”

The estimated collective worth of the parcels is $26 million, according to a news release from Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office. Some properties have been made available at a discount — dependent on the proposed use — to encourage developers to “think strategically” about creating affordability throughout the city, Commissioner Ciere Boatright said.

“I don’t believe in retirement,” said Preckwinkle, who last month on her 78th birthday announced she will run for a fifth consecutive term in 2026. Perhaps Preckwinkle’s signature achievement has been being able to balance Cook County’s budget year after year without raising new taxes.

CPS CEO Pedro Martinez said there’s enough money for the contract’s first year, but not for the $175 million pension payment for which CPS is reimbursing the city. Martinez’s suggestion to cover the pension payment is a tax levy. “There is a current tax levy the city has – it’s part of your water tax bill and a few other bills. They have not raised it. They could raise it,” he said.

“Dyett High School is a great example of a sustainable community school. When you invest in people and you invest in children, we create champions,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said, explaining that a tentative collective bargaining agreement with the city’s teachers union is a reflection of his values. Dyett won the 2A state championship in boys basketball last month. But according to the Illinois State Board of Education’s Illinois Report Card, 12 percent of Dyett students tested at grade level for proficiency in science, and the chronic absenteeism rate last year was 75 percent. Math and English and Language Arts scores

“He portrays his battles as part of an existential battle against a political establishment that doesn’t want Black Chicagoans to prosper. … His rhetoric is little more than a political ploy to put critics on the defensive and to win back support in the Black community, where many feel abandoned by his migrant policies.”

Jenn Kho, the Sun-Times executive editor since 2022, will serve as interim editor-in-chief for Chicago Public Media, a new role overseeing the content produced by both the Sun-Times and WBEZ.

“We have a political elite that is in love with criminality, that encourages criminal behavior, pushes down our police officers, demonize[s] their work on a daily basis, and elevates the perpetrators of crime as the victims of society themselves,” Ald. Ray Lopez argued. “And that kind of coddling has brought us to where we are today.”

“In Chicago, you would be hard-pressed to find more than a handful of teachers fired for poor performance despite abysmal student test scores and 40 percent of teachers being chronically absent in 2023.”

“Because of generations of disinvestment — from banning Black children from attending the city’s first public schools, to ‘Willis Wagons’ that crowded Black children into rotating makeshift classrooms to avoid having to integrate with white students, to the failures of Renaissance 2010 and Rahm Emanuel’s gutting of public education — we are made to fight for what should already exist, what every parent wants for their child and what families in wealthier suburbs take for granted.”