About $2.3 billion (about 20 percent) will be distributed from the county straight into about 500 taxing bodies’ accounts, according to Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas’ office.

The man, Marlon Miller, is now detained on felony aggravated battery charges after Judge Peter Gonzalez acknowledged that the electronic monitoring program overseen by the office of the county’s chief judge was “completely unreliable as [Miller] was out and about committing crimes.”

Not everyone on X was quite as thrilled with the “ABOLISH ICE” suggestion, with one user responding “The snow plow names are suppose to be fun and light hearted. Not political. Don’t ruin a fun thing.” Past winning names include “Mrs. O’Leary’s Plow,” “Sears Plower,” “CTRL-SALT-DELETE,” “Ernie Snowbanks,” and “Snower Wacker.”

Obama Foundation Deputy Director Kim Patterson said the design of the building was a specific choice. “There are not a lot of windows on the building, but that’s intentional, because sunlight is just not a friend to the artwork and the artifacts that are going inside of the building,” Patterson said during a tour of the property.

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas and entrepreneur Joe Holberg already have announced plans to run for mayor. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and Comptroller Susana Mendoza are considered potential challengers, too.

Robert Bray, 35, of Evergreen Park, has a criminal history that includes a five-year prison sentence in 2017 for aggravated battery of a peace officer and a 30-month sentence in 2021 for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. In 2019, a jury acquitted him of a separate felon-in-possession gun charge.

Since 2019, Chicago Public Schools staff spent $23.6 million in taxpayer money on excessive travel, according to a report by the district’s Office of Inspector General. Featuring tourist activities of “debatable value” such as a visit to a South African game park, a hot air balloon ride, camel rides and a visit to the pyramids,several trips were never submitted for approval.

A significant chunk of the additional money — $175 million — is expected to go back to the city as a reimbursement payment to cover a portion of municipal pension costs for CPS non-teaching staff retirements.

“The shape of the building was actually meant to mimic four hands coming together to show the importance of our collective action,” said tour guide Kim Patterson, who grew up in the nearby South Shore community.

Pastor Corey Brooks: “Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s progressive policies, his downplaying of crime, prioritizing migrant spending over neighborhood needs, attacking school choice and lowering academic standards in public schools, hurt the very Black communities he claims to champion.”

On the school’s web page, titled “Leading Change with Inclusion, Courage, and Global Perspective,” the institution says that educators must “skillfully” attempt to “pursue equity and inclusion.”

“If those City Council members are not looking out for working people then I’m happy to do it,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said. “There’s about $800 million of medical debt right now that people of the city or around the city owe to the city of Chicago.”

Federal officials placed the Chicago indictments within the context of a much larger national and international crackdown on Tren de Aragua.

“We are now in a liquidity crisis,” said Brookfield-LaGrange Park School District 95 Superintendent Ryan Evans. “Now we have to decide to liquidate our long-term investments, which hurts us and [forces us to] take penalties on those to pay our bills. That’s a huge problem.”

A spokesman confirmed to reporters, “The budget will go into effect without his signature. He will not be affirming the budget with his signature.” But in an attempt to block his political foes from having the last word, Johnson also signed a series of executive orders, one aimed at upholding police overtime restrictions undone by aldermen, the other to ban the sale of medical debt, such as ambulance rides, to balance the city’s budget.

“The deeper issue is that Chicago needs more than tweaks. This package does nothing to address the core reasons Chicago perennially finds itself in this mess: stagnant growth, out-of-control spending and underfunded pensions.”

A Cook County family that owns three adjacent parcels of land sought to correct a property tax increase of more than 600 percent.