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“It’s clear here. We’re either going to cut services and lay people off and raise property taxes, or we’re going to make sure that those with means who can actually afford it put more skin in the game. That’s the choice that the people of Chicago have right now,” Johnson said.
Garry McCarthy, a former Chicago police superintendent, says he isn’t opposed to the Border Patrol’s mission but is “not a fan of their methods,” including car chases. McCarthy says Border Patrol agents have acted more recklessly than their counterpart agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “They’re out of control,” he says of the Border Patrol agents.
A new report finds Illinois lacks protection from federal overreach, with few safeguards to limit funding and mandates.
“As Chicago’s 2026 budget process moves forward, new independent analysis indicates that city leaders are debating spending priorities and long-term commitments without a complete and fully transparent understanding of the government’s true financial position.”
Chaos erupted outside an immigration processing center in Chicago on Thursday when anti-ICE agitators clashed with law enforcement. The incident led to multiple arrests after demonstrators blocked traffic and refused orders to disperse.
An ISIS plot to attack the Chicago Pride Parade with a backpack bomb in 2024 was discussed on a terrorist website but never carried out, according to FBI records obtained by the NBC Chicago investigative team.
“What I am so upset about is that Donald Trump was fine with people not being able to travel, people not being able to get their food. He was fine, he is fine with taking away health care from people,” Pritzker said. “You can’t be so obstinate about every little element of whatever your program is, and refuse to have the government work unless you get your way, when you’re in the minority, too,” said Richard Porter, a former Republican national committeeman from Illinois.
“Trump is a liar,” Pritzker said. “He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up.”
State Senator Dave Koehler: “We have to add more supply and battery storage adds supply,” he said. “We know that we have to put more energy onto the grid if we’re going to bring prices down. It’s a simple fact of supply and demand, and we know that demand is high in the summertime.”
“I think that is the crudest form of political weapon that I can imagine — and that’s why I came to the conclusion that we had tried to find a bipartisan agreement, and we reached it,” Durbin said.
Ald. Andre Vasquez, co-chair of a 19-member Progressive Caucus that Johnson is counting on to help deliver his budget, said it might be a better idea to restore the automatic escalator locking in annual property tax increases at the rate of inflation, and perhaps doubling a $9.50-a-month garbage collection fee that has been frozen since its 2015 inception.
Locals are still trying to make sense of the $850 million Obama Presidential Center, dubbed “The Obamalisk,”
“We’re one of very few states that doesn’t have any limits on what an insurance company can charge,” Pritzker said. “What we want is for the insurance companies simply to show us why it’s appropriate for them to raise rates by 27 percent. They didn’t do that. They haven’t done that. All they did was say, ‘Well, we had losses.’ … We don’t know if homeowners are being gouged, and that’s what it feels like.”
“If Conyears-Ervin wants to keep her own money out of Treasuries as a quixotic political protest, she is of course free to do so. But this $11 billion is not her money.”
According to the Hyde Park Herald, the union representatives gave the school a list of demands that included barring ICE agents from entering buildings without a judicial warrant, notifying the school community about ICE activity in the area, posting signs barring ICE agents from entering buildings and publicly affirming students’ right to learn without federal interference.
“Good and decent men like Ald. Lopez think of compromise. But shameless weasels like Pritzker and his violent radical left wing unions ruin the idea of common ground, they take over the streets, ramming I.C.E. vehicles and shooting at law enforcement isn’t about seeking common ground. It is about violent demands, like the old Confederate slave owners at Ft. Sumpter firing on union troops to protect their slave trade.”
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