Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget proposal includes a gift for Chicago Public Schools: He is recommending that the city take an unprecedented amount out of special taxing districts so CPS can cover its costs and send some cash back to the …
In financial maneuver, Mayor Brandon Johnson finds millions for Chicago Public Schools Read MoreCook County Circuit Chief Judge Timothy Evans signed an order barring civil arrests of people while at county courts — a common tactic used by federal immigration agents to detain people. The order takes effect Wednesday and bars the civil …
Top Cook County judge bars civil arrests at courthouses, citing chilling effect Read MoreA federal judge has temporarily blocked the current administration’s attempt to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, issuing a restraining order amid mounting protests. Yet even as the courts press pause, the threat of militarizing our streets looms. But there’s …
National Guard members didn’t sign up to patrol civilians Read MoreChicago mayors have grown accustomed to dictating the way the city raises and spends its money. But Mayor Brandon Johnson learned the hard way a year ago how much times have changed. Johnson’s $17.1 billion 2025 budget squeaked through the …
Johnson targets head tax in 2026 proposed budget, but emboldened City Council likely to have final say Read MoreUnder the bright October sky on a recent weekday morning, AC Avila squatted down and packed a homemade mix of bait onto a fishing rig, flung the nearly invisible line into the water and waited. Behind the fishing line floating …
Chicago’s uber-popular Riverwalk is now a fishing hotspot Read MoreA slender Streeterville low-rise has been a rooming house, an artist’s studio and the Chicago headquarters of a presidential candidate, before a late 1960s renovation turned it into a glassy boutique-and-art-gallery building. But that could all come to an end …
Is it the end for a modernist Streeterville building with Victorian roots? Read MoreMoon Alert Avoid shopping (except food and gas) or major decisions after 10 p.m. PDT today. The moon is in Leo. Aries (March 21-April 19) A positive day Today is a mixed bag. It’s a favorable day for you because …
Horoscope for Wednesday, October 15, 2025 Read MoreIt isn’t often that a team gets excited about a No. 4 overall draft pick playing the role of seventh man to perfection entering his sixth NBA season, especially when he’s in the second year of a five-year, $90 million …
With lower expectations, can Bulls forward Patrick Williams excel? Read MoreTen minutes after getting behind the wheel of a carjacked SUV on the city’s Southwest Side, a motorist crashed and plowed into a tree, leaving him dead late Tuesday in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. Around 11:30 p.m., the silver …
Driver dead after carjacked SUV hits tree in East Garfield Park Read MoreDetectives are trying to figure out who is responsible for the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old man late Tuesday in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood. The 28-year-old man was found in the first block of West 44th Street around 11:35 p.m. …
Man fatally shot in Grand Boulevard Read MoreWe are writing not as detached commentators but as those who were in the streets of Chicago in the summer of 1968 — as anti-war activists, as witnesses to state violence, as people who believed then, as we do now, …
What’s unfolding in cities is ‘terrifying escalation’ of what we saw in 1968 Chicago Read MoreDEAR ABBY: Eight years ago, I split from my fiance of 30 years, “Anthony,” when he accused me of cheating, which I was absolutely not doing. Throughout the entire relationship, he hurt and belittled me. He is insecure and always …
Dear Abby: Sister swoops in after woman’s long engagement ends Read MoreJohn Warren has been in the real estate business for a decade, and for the first time, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up armed at one of his properties last week to conduct a raid. Until recently, it …
ICE activity putting stress on Chicago’s building managers, who warn rents could rise Read MoreGov. JB Pritzker has joined a public health coalition of Democratic governors to counter the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, slash Medicaid and undermine vaccines. The Governors Public Health Alliance is intended to …
Gov. JB Pritzker joins Democratic governors’ health coalition to combat Trump’s ‘war on science’ Read MoreA fence outside the Broadview ICE facility was taken down late Tuesday night, in accordance with a federal judicial order issued last week. It was unclear whether the removal was temporary or permanent. The removal complies with an order issued …
ICE facility fence in Broadview has been removed, in compliance with federal judge’s order Read MoreGood morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: Federal agents on Tuesday rammed an SUV to end a high-speed pursuit down a residential street, then deployed tear-gas on a crowd of protesters that gathered. 🗞️ Plus: Air traffic controllers say the government shutdown is …
Feds ram SUV after chase, tear-gas crowd Read MoreLa alcaldesa de Broadview, Katrina Thompson, firmó una nueva orden ejecutiva que reduce las “zonas de libre expresión” designadas para las manifestaciones afuera de la instalación de la Oficina del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) en el …
Alcaldesa de Broadview limita las zonas de protesta afuera de la instalación de ICE Read MoreAn alleged thief who police said jumped behind the wheel of a private ambulance with a staffer inside it in Niles before leading police on a chase that ended on the Tri-State Tollway was arrested on Tuesday afternoon near Hinsdale. …
Alleged Niles ambulance thief arrested after leading cops on 20-mile chase on Tri-State Tollway Read MoreFederal immigration agents’ use of Naval Station Great Lakes will continue through “at least December,” leaders at Naval Station Great Lakes have been informed, according to an email obtained by the Sun-Times and a source who was familiar with the …
Federal immigration agents to continue to use Naval Station Great Lakes until at least December Read MoreChicago Inspector General Deborah Witzburg has recommended that Mayor Brandon Johnson fire his closest aide, senior mayoral adviser Jason Lee, for refusing to cooperate with her investigation of an alleged quid pro quo threat he made to a City Council …
Mayor Johnson should fire his top adviser, Chicago inspector general says Read More