The district also increased its TIF surplus dollars projection by $85 million — to $285 million.

“Oh, I won’t sugarcoat it. That’s exactly what we’re doing,” MPS human resources chief Dominick Maniscalco said. Unlike CPS, Milwaukee doesn’t require its teachers to reside within city limits — or even within Wisconsin.

Johnson said there is “no perfect model” for how to “govern as a progressive in the midst of decades of malfeasance and neglect.” He added it’s “too soon to prognosticate what the future will hold, but what I can say is that building a safe and affordable city in America is the joy of my experience in this moment.”

“I understand the frustration that Black people felt during that mission. I do. I do,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said. “We don’t ask for much. We don’t. We just don’t want our schools to close. We want opportunities, good paying jobs. … For Black Chicago in particular, it kind of felt a way that government was able to turn on resources in a moment’s notice that our communities have been starved for decades. And I tried desperately to live in my values, even though it cost me politically. It did. It did cost me.”

While acknowledging that “phones can be distracting,” the CTU opposes the measure because phones can be “lifelines for students” who fear immigration enforcement. But that’s arguably covered by one of the exceptions districts can detail in their emergency and crisis response plans.

Pastor Corey Brooks: ” I have never met a stronger woman than a single mother raising four kids on the South Side. These women didn’t choose this system. They were born into it, and my anger has never been at them. My anger is at a bureaucracy that asked them to trust it more than they trusted themselves.”

A Venezuelan migrant has been ordered detained after prosecutors accused him of dragging a Chicago police officer with a car during a South Side traffic stop, then biting and punching officers while threatening to kill one of them.

“For years, Chicago’s progressive leadership has operated on a cynical ‘divide and conquer’ strategy. They calculated that they could starve working-class Black and Hispanic neighborhoods of resources to fund pet ideological projects, while keeping North Side liberals compliant through performative virtue signaling. But their math failed to account for a basic human reality: everyone, regardless of zip code, wants their children to walk down a safe street.”

Security video show the woman was knocked to the ground as she carried her bicycle through the gate the morning of July 10, 2025. The video shows the man pushing past her, allegedly to avoid paying the fare, according to a copy of the lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court. Private security guards can be seen in the videos.

The IFT says the failure of the Treasurer’s Office to disperse property tax funds has resulted in “school communities across the county … facing budget shortfalls, educator layoffs, and furlough days that will shortchange students and families.”

“The mainstream media has largely ignored the alignment between (then-State’s Attorney Kim) Foxx, justice reform advocates, and trial lawyers that not only freed convicted criminals but greased the skids for large, taxpayer-funded settlements. Some members of the City Council, including Ald. Raymond Lopez, have publicly criticized the mounting cost of these settlements, echoing criticism from former Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who once accused Foxx of ‘handing out certificates of innocence like they’re candy.'”

“So, in summation: Save A Lot sold its stores to a shady businessman. The City of Chicago handed $13 million in taxpayer money to a shady businessman. Everyone’s business plan was to count on welfare and welfare fraud to stay in business. But by all means, let’s blame the Orange Bad Man.”