Home Court’s largest single space is the 13,000-square-foot professional-sized basketball court with seating. The Obama logo — the letter “O” set against a striped curved horizon — is the center court emblem. The space also doubles as a banquet hall.

Former Finance Committee Chair Scott Waguespack, a leader of the opposition group, accused the mayor of using “finger-pointing, lies and insults” to attack those who have “dared to call out the dangerous flaws” in his budget that would “push Chicago off a financial cliff.”

CPD’s promotions policy, long a flashpoint in efforts to reform the police department, is an example of where “government has not been completely modernized,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.

“Like the Raymond Shaw character in the 1962 thriller The Manchurian Candidate, (Mayor Brandon) Johnson has faithfully advanced the Chicago Teachers Union’s agenda ahead of the broader public interest and nowhere is that clearer than in his fiscal policy. His proposed budgets explicitly prioritize CPS and CTU, helping bail out a district now struggling to fund back‑to‑back record labor contracts, including a recent deal totaling roughly $1.6 billion, the richest in city history.”

“Some of these schools that our students go to are underperforming because they are underutilized,” state Rep. La Shawn Ford said.

“We’re not surprised this start-of-construction announcement came after the so-called fiscal cliff crisis, when numbers like $444 million in construction costs might well have raised some eyebrows in Springfield, given that the RTA was eventually saying its budget deficit for 2026 was $250 million, little more than half the cost of this one station.”

Mayor Johnson has insisted that Chicagoans support his strategy of raising taxes on businesses and wealthier people in the city. He told reporters, “The pressure that government has put on working people in this city has been incredibly severe.”

The ages of the victims range from 18 to 45, according to Chicago police.