“I’m not mourning a racist, bigoted, xenophobic clown like him who hated me and mine,” Johnson press aide Anton P. Adkins wrote this week on his personal Facebook account. Ald. Ray Lopez said a 10-day suspension that deprives Adkins of one paycheck is a “slap on the wrist.”

The burglary ring targeted dozens of businesses between February 2024 and May 2025 in Arlington Heights, Chicago, Addison, Buffalo Grove, Wheeling, Oak Lawn, Worth, Barrington, South Barrington, Deerfield, Wauconda, Gilberts, West Dundee, Gurnee, Lake Forest, Carpentersville, Des Plaines, Westchester, Wilmette, Northbrook, North Chicago, Glencoe, Skokie, and Morton Grove.

One ICE officer was struck by the driver and dragged after being hit by the suspect’s vehicle as he attempted to flee, an ICE spokesperson said. Fearing for his life, the officer fired his weapon and struck the immigrant who was being sought by the agency as part of a targeted immigration enforcement operation in Chicago.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s pick to lead the Chicago Housing Authority, retired Ald. Walter Burnett, and his wife, Darlena Williams-Burnett, have had at least 10 contracts for properties rented to CHA voucher holders, including two ongoing contracts and five contracts that were active during Williams-Burnett’s tenure as an employee at the housing authority.

Biss said he was willing to get arrested at the protest after agents threatened to deploy tear gas and demanded the group of protesters disperse from the facility’s sidewalk or face arrest. “We need to do what we can,” Biss said. “I come from a position of privilege, not only because of my citizenship but frankly of my role as mayor … I ought to use that to say what I believe and what I think all of Evanston believes …”

Evans’ removal comes after years of championing progressive causes and reforms in the criminal justice system in Cook County and statewide, repeatedly asserting the reforms have been effective. Other officials in the court system and other observers, however, said real data didn’t back up those claims. News site CWBChicago, for instance, has tracked for years hundreds of crimes committed by offenders released pretrial in Cook County. And former Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Iris Martinez said her office had documented more than 67,000 incidences in which criminal defendants may have skipped court dates in the first 12 months after the

Mayor Brandon Johnson said, “Because of the unified opposition from community leaders and elected officials in Chicago and throughout the state, the Trump administration backed down from its threats of sending in the National Guard to Chicago. We continue to call on the federal government to send additional resources to help us continue to drive down violent crime, but we reject any military occupation of our city. The way to reduce violence is by focusing on the strategies that work: effective policing, violence prevention, and investing in communities.”

Friday morning, Gov. JB Pritzker tweeted in response to the Memphis news, “It’s disturbing that the President is hellbent on sending troops onto America’s streets. Using those who serve in uniform as political props is insulting. None of this is normal.”

The cost of police-related settlements has skyrocketed this year, smashing past records to become a bona fide financial crisis. Aldermen have approved $223.2 million in such settlements since January, a sum sure to rise in the coming months that trounces the previous record of $110.6 million in 2022. Johnson and the City Council budgeted just $82.6 million for settlements and legal costs this year. Not included in that sum is a $120 million jury verdict in another wrongful conviction case that went to trial earlier this year.

Preliminary numbers show that Chicago Public Schools this school year have seen a drop in enrollment by 12,000 students, board member Yesenia Lopez said at the same news conference, “primarily English learners.” Lopez said she didn’t know whether that drop was directly attributable to fears of immigration enforcement.