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“There is like a real disconnect going on in City Council now. It’s like an alt-universe… The entire world is calling for affordability and raising wages, and this City Council just took raises away from Black and Brown women,” the mayor said after the vote.
Outside groups, including AIPAC, funneled roughly $70 million into six open U.S. House and Senate races in Illinois on Tuesday. Pritzker himself put at least $5 million into helping Juliana Stratton win the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination.
“When I said, when I said I would spend every single waking moment of the rest of my life to hold this administration accountable, win or lose, I f—— meant it,” Progressive influencer Kat Abughazaleh said. “I’m sorry that this sucks. But, f— Trump, f— ICE, free Palestine, I love you all.” She is still facing federal charges after she was accused of interfering with ICE operations outside the Broadview ICE processing center last fall.
“At a time in which … it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to afford to raise a family in this country — Democrats rolling back the wages of Black and Brown women — that is not only tone-deaf, but it’s irresponsible,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said. “Democrats have to pay attention to what the voters in the city of Chicago are calling for, and quite frankly, what voters across America are expecting from leadership.”
Funding for the programs in 32 Illinois schools was abruptly pulled by the U.S. Department of Education, citing a July 2025 memo from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, which guided federal agencies to revoke grants over language relating to DEI, which the memo classified as discriminatory.
State Sen. Sue Rezin said Illinois is a major transportation and commercial hub, which makes the state especially vulnerable to sex trafficking. Rezin said Andrew’s Law, Senate Bill 284, would eliminate plea deals for individuals charged with involuntary servitude of a minor, trafficking involving a minor or grooming.
Protecting consumers from paying for data centers’ energy needs is a key part of the POWER Act, and shifting the cost to the data centers has widespread, bipartisan support in Illinois and nationwide.
Five primary factors determined the rankings for entrepreneurship and growth: taxes, regulations, “business dynamism,” housing and energy.
Of the 350,000 free meals served daily at CPS through the Community Eligibility Provision, none includes pork; a vote during a virtual COVID-era board meeting quietly removed this nutrient-dense protein from the menu. Just by swapping a beef sausage patty with a pork sausage patty at breakfast alone, it would save CPS $1.2 million over 180 days.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who won re-election, didn’t seek CTU’s endorsement. Right before the primary, CTU favorability hit a record-low among likely Chicago voters.
Edwardsville voters previously rejected a similar ballot referendum in 2021, seemingly indicating public opinion on video gambling has not changed over the past five years.
Preckwinkle heads to the general election in November, where she ’s likely to win her fifth, four-year term. There is no Republican candidate for Cook County Board president; Michael Murphy is running as a Libertarian. Should she win in November, Preckwinkle said it would be her last term as County Board president.
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