A recent consulting study commissioned by the city concluded that video gaming revenue would be $10 million a year at best, and could actually end up costing the city money because of the impact it would have on slot machines at the casino that Bally’s is building in the River West neighborhood. That’s in part because the tax on slot machine revenue would be nearly four times higher than it is on video gaming terminals.

Flyers shared on social media showed plans for a 1 p.m. walkout by Chicago Public Schools and Noble Charter Schools students. “Bring your voice. Bring your friends. Bring your power,” the flyer read.

Some commuters showed up to bus stops on routes that had been eliminated. “Frustration and confusion at Center City transit hubs amid cuts,” a headline ran at the Philadelphia Inquirer. The cuts even affected attendance at school, which began that week and depend on city buses, just as Chicago Public Schools does. About 63 percent of Philadelphia schools reported more late arrivals than normal, and 50 percent reported higher absentee rates.

The report offers “89 preliminary options to improve operations, generate new revenue, and pursue strategic opportunities, all while preserving city services.” Loop Capital CEO Jim Reynolds, the co-chair of the task force, told reporters during an online news conference that all of the city’s fines and fees should automatically rise annually to keep pace with the national consumer price index, which will help city officials “avoid hard decisions.”

“Operation At Large is here to continue the mission we started in Los Angeles—to make the city safer by targeting and arresting criminal illegal aliens,” Gregory Bovino, a border patrol chief who recently led ICE efforts in Los Angeles, posted to social media.

Zettler wrote, “The first thing I thought when I heard [about the Charlie Kirk shooting] today was ‘karma, it’s a (expletive).’ Then I read this. The author, Qasim Rashid, says it best.”

“Charlie Kirk’s] real contribution was challenging students to cast off the conditioning that has been imposed on them by the smug, radical professors and administrators who have taken over the academy. Young people needed to hear what he had to say, and to hear the way he said it, and they responded in numbers and in ways few of us could have imagined. Urban dwellers need to hear a similar message. Someone inspired by Charlie, someone of comparable intellectual nimbleness, affability and decency, ought to set up events in New York City’s Central Park, Los Angeles’ McArthur Park, Chicago’s Grant

A quantum computer in Brisbane, Australia, is expected to be online by the end of 2027 and one in Chicago in 2028, the company said. PsiQuantum is the anchor tenant in the quantum computer campus under development on Chicago’s south side.

“This is the most unusual situation I’ve seen in my entire lifetime, where we have no transparency and the federal government is not policing itself. Even the offices of inspector generals are being dismantled under this administration. So we may never really know what the truth is,” the governor said.

Despite the OCR investigation and a broader societal swing away from diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, Chicago school board member Jitu Brown is not interested in watering down the plan’s goals. In Chicago, Brown is well-known for his activism, including spearheading a 2015 hunger strike to reopen a shuttered South Side high school. Brown now leads Journey for Justice Alliance, a national network of community-based organizations, which issued a pre-pandemic report on educational disparities.