Mayor Johnson makes the case against downtown curfew on the eve of City Council showdown – Chicago Sun-Times

The mayor released a so-called “Youth Impact Report” that documented all of the investments the city has made to employ, train, educate and constructively engage young people in neighborhoods across the city. But downtown Ald. Brian Hopkins said Johnson’s mantra about “investing in people” has become a “meaningless cliché” and a mayoral “cop-out,” particularly after a tourist was shot last month.

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CTA employee overtime costs under scrutiny – ABC7 (Chicago)

Records show overtime costs have increased nearly 40 percent since 2019, from $86 million in 2019 to nearly $120 million in 2024. One hundred full-time employees made twice their annual salary in overtime in a single year, including a supervisor that made more than $233,000 in overtime on top of a base salary of $95,000.

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“It’s My Turn on the Line”: U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth laments the lack of resistance to Trump – Chicago Magazine

“I could not have been more disappointed with the Democratic leadership when they gave in on the government shutdown vote. Basically what I said to them was ‘You guys are worried about the rule book. You’re looking to see, What can we do and what can’t we do? In the meantime, the other side is shooting the judges and the referees in the face. So stop looking at the fucking rule book and let’s fight back.'”

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Report: Illinois remains in the bottom five for economic competitiveness – Center Square

Report author Jonathan Williams said Illinois has been in the bottom five for most of the last decade. “Generally what happens when the state tax burden and the tax rates become too high is then the state tries to compete a different way, which is by giving away special favors to politically-connected entities,” Williams said. “In the name of being pro-business, a lot of times there will be a special handout to one industry versus another or even one company versus another. You have plenty of examples from the city of Chicago to draw from, and some individuals in federal

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People waiting for rideshares targeted in series of robberies in popular Chicago neighborhoods – NBC5 (Chicago)

At least 13 such cases have been reported since January — all involving similar situations. In each case, the person said they were waiting for an Uber or Lyft when a group of men approached them with a handgun and demanded their property. In several incidents, the victims’ banking information has been taken from their stolen phone following the robbery, authorities noted.

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23 states: IL, Chicago ‘sanctuary’ laws incentivize illegal immigration, ‘spills’ burden onto other states, rest of U.S. – Cook County Record

On April 8, attorneys general from nearly two dozen states filed a brief in Chicago federal court in support of a legal action from the Trump administration, seeking a court order forcing the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago and Cook County to comply with federal immigration law and allow local government and police agencies to again cooperate with federal immigration authorities seeking to deport criminal illegal aliens.

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Antisemitic graffiti found on several buildings at Northwestern University – CBS2 (Chicago)

In a letter to university community members, Northwestern President Michael Schill wrote that a group of people vandalized several buildings on the university’s Evanston campus, spray-painting antisemitic slogans and hate-filled language. “The fact that these acts occurred during the commencement of the Passover holiday makes these disgusting statements all the more despicable,” Schill wrote.

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