“Every day we’ve seen where individuals are being victimized in the city of Chicago…” Lopez said. “And to hear our leaders like Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson say that ‘Everything’s fine. Don’t worry. We’re doing just great,’ would be like a cancer doctor telling you that we’ve cured you just enough this year. We need to save some for next year. No one would ever accept that as an analogy, and neither should we in Chicago.”

Mayor Brandon Johnson, whose approval ratings have at times fallen below 10 percent, has seized the moment to stand up to Trump at every turn, rejecting the president’s depiction of the city as a crime “hellhole.” It is a role that could play well in Chicago. “There’s a little bit of gangster in every Chicagoan. There’s no way any Chicagoan is going to allow this president to come in and bully them,” said Delmarie Cobb, a local Democratic consultant.

In an opinion piece published Monday in The New York Times, Chicago’s mayor said Chicagoans “love and defend our city fiercely,” and don’t need “an occupation” of armed troops. He also acknowledged that even at lower levels, violence remains unacceptable, noting his own family has experienced its effects firsthand in the West Side Austin neighborhood.

The report is based on data categorized by the Chicago police, which shows a 58 percent rise in reported anti-Jewish hate crimes from 2023 to 2024. The data includes hate crimes based on a victim’s testimony, even if the department’s felony review unit does not approve a hate crime charge, according to the Chicago Police Department.

The foundation’s most recent all-in estimate is $850 million, foundation spokeswoman Emily Bittner said.

According to 14th Ward Ald. Jeylu Gutierrez, one of those detained is a well-known flower vendor who was taken into custody while working; Another person was detained while waiting for a bus.

The attack unfolded around 9:18 a.m. outside the Target store, 10 South State Street, as two men got into an argument steps away from where workers were preparing for the event’s 2025 debut. Records show the assailant has been arrested three other times in Chicago this year: for DUI in February, for battery on the Magnificent Mile in May, and for a warrant last month.

“After the Cook County Board of Review, which makes final rulings on the assessor’s work based on appeals made by individual property owners, got done with its work this year, residential owners are assuming 54 percent of the overall share of Chicago property taxes, up from 51 percent. As we wrote a few months ago, that shift alone could easily mean average residential property tax increases in the high single digits or low to mid-double digits. But those are just averages. In neighborhoods where values have risen most sharply, those bills could rise much more.”

The agreement between Northwestern includes a clause stipulating that “NU, NU-Q, and their respective employees, students, faculty, families, contractors and agents, shall be subject to the applicable laws and regulations of the State of Qatar, and shall respect the cultural, religious and social customs of the State of Qatar.”

Nearly 65 percent of the cases that have been settled were defended by lawyers who work directly for the city, who are often paid much less than lawyers who work for private firms, records show. It is unclear how many lawsuits alleging police misconduct have been dismissed by judges or withdrawn. None of these cases have gone to trial, records show.

This weekend’s gun violence comes after at least 58 people were shot, eight fatally, across the city over the long Labor Day holiday weekend last week.

In his own social media post, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said the President’s “threats are beneath the honor of our nation, but the reality is that he wants to occupy our city and break our Constitution. We must defend our democracy from this authoritarianism by protecting each other and protecting Chicago from Donald Trump.”