While tenants in South Shore say they live in slum conditions they point to Mayor Brandon Johnson, along with Ald. Desmon Yancy, who has supported the city’s $640 million in local, state, and federal funds dispersed for the 52,000 migrants that have arrived in Chicago since 2022. Blacks have heavily criticized Johnson and the city for taking care of migrants, utilizing city services, while Black wards have suffered without them for years. In this case, the city and owners have agreed to pay $2,500 to 20 tenants who must move out of their buildings before the city shuts them down.

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates urged the mayor, formerly a CTU organizer, to veto the teen curfew ordinance, likening it to Jim Crow segregation laws. “The people of Streeterville don’t need the police to keep Black youth out of their neighborhood. The people of Chicago need policies and programs that serve and center Black youth,” Davis Gates wrote.

By law, Anthony Laya-Alvarado’s sentence will be reduced by 50 percent for good behavior. The remaining year-and-a-half will be offset by 393 days of credit that Laya-Alvarado, of Venezuela, earned by being in jail and participating in programs while awaiting trial. According to the Illinois Department of Corrections, he is scheduled to be released on September 19, two days before the first anniversary of the robbery.

Since May 1, there have been seven planned teen takeover events in Naperville, each with varying degrees of participation, Naperville police Cmdr. Rick Krakow said. Before Saturday’s takeover, a few thousand demonstrators gathered for a “No Kings” rally while Naperville’s fourth annual Juneteenth celebration took place over at Rotary Hill.

The mayor’s office said it reached out to three leaders of agencies across the country but none were interested in doing a formal interview for the position. The administration said substandard CEO pay, uncertainty surrounding transit funding in Springfield and what it described as “hostile” media treatment were barriers to attracting further interest in the position.

Mayor Brandon Johnson vows to ‘resist’ immigration enforcement as city has allowed in over 51,000 illegal immigrants

Aldermen also passed a Wrigley Field security upgrade plan that involves $32.1 million from the Cubs, city and state. The team and city officials are hopeful the added safety will check off a final box for Major League Baseball and help land Chicago an All-Star Game.

“I will veto this ordinance because it is counterproductive to the progress that we have made in reducing crime and violence in our city,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said. “This is not good policy. It’s not good, sound policy. We’ve seen this play out before that offering up police power, extended police power without any check or balance, [does] not bode well for Black people and Brown people in this country.”

The project will receive $10 million in city funding and $12 million in state funding. The Cubs will have to pay at least $8 million, and cover any cost overruns.

Less than six months into the year, Chicago taxpayers have spent at least $189.3 million to resolve nearly two and a half dozen lawsuits. It is unclear how the city will find the money to make the payments approved Wednesday by the City Council, since it has already exhausted the $82 million officials set aside to cover police misconduct settlements and judgments in 2025.