The west suburban processing center is designed to hold people for no more than 12 hours before transferring them to a formal immigration detention facility. It has no beds, let alone any covers, one detainee said. They were not offered showers or hot food. But for busier periods in June, data shows the typical detainee was held two or three days — far longer than the five or so hours typical in years past.

Among the victims was a 4-year-old boy who was shot but had non-life-threatening injuries.

In the meantime, here’s hoping the now-dead head tax stays dead. Of all the revenue-raising concepts now circulating, it’s hard to think of another that screams “Chicago isn’t open for business” more loudly than the notion of paying for the privilege of creating jobs.

“My mother was one of those brilliantly unreasonable people. As the baby of five, I spent much of my early years clinging for dear life on my mother’s skirts as she confronted slum landlords, abusive husbands, and gang bangers in the Uptown area of Chicago. Time and again, I would squeeze her hand with that

The “South Side Home Movie Project” exhibit at the University of Chicago offers a glimpse into everyday lives of a generation of Chicagoans, plus the equipment used to produce these films.

One of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s neighbors has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for brutally killing a woman with a baseball bat inside his home directly across the street from the mayor’s residence.

“They lost the plot,” the person close to both Mamdani’s and Johnson’s teams said of Johnson’s tenure. The person noted that while both Johnson and Mamdani have specific visions, they said Mamdani is “pragmatic and he wants to succeed” but described Johnson as unbending at times.

“A school board and a mayor that jack up teacher salaries and openly talk of taking on more junk-rated debt during a period of deficits well into the hundreds of millions have relinquished their right to determine CPS’ future. There assuredly will be painful conditions attached to whatever assistance the state provides — if indeed a cash-strapped Springfield even summons the will and the means to help. A meaningful, enforceable school consolidation plan, perhaps? Limits on contracting authority maybe, including future negotiations with CTU?”

Tom Bevan talks to Ausin Berg, Executive Director of the Chicago Policy Center, about Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposal for a “corporate head tax” in Chicago to help close the city’s $1.1 billion dollar budget deficit. The tax would charge large corporations for each individual it employs within the city.

With outside business-backed groups such as Common Ground Collective and One Future Illinois already gearing up to oppose progressive proposals, Jack Lavin, president of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, said the defeat of Bring Chicago Home and Gov. JB Pritzker’s graduated income tax shows that the broader business community “is better positioned” to win the messaging battle with the public. “I also think taxpayers in general are tired of the constant increase in taxes and (thinking), ‘What are we getting out of it?’” he said.

The family turned to Ald. Raymond Lopez for help, but he couldn’t get the Water Department to back down. “They’re going to put me in the grave with this, because what do I do?” said property owner Diane Carli, 82.