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Gov. JB Pritzker talks near Trump Tower in Chicago on Aug. 25, 2025, about President Donald Trump's possible plan to deploy National Guard troops. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

As President Donald Trump appears to waffle on National Guard in Chicago, Gov. JB Pritzker says, ‘do not come’

August 26, 2025 at 11:59 a.m.

The president's comments follow his statements Friday when he raised the idea of using the Guard in Chicago, as he previously did in Los Angeles and currently is doing in...

National Guard troops from South Carolina walk into Foggy Bottom Metro Station in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 20, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

Johnson and Pritzker blast as illegal Trump’s suggestion he’ll send National Guard to Chicago next

August 23, 2025 at 5:36 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson calls President Trump threat to send National Guard troops to Chicago illegal, "uncoordinated, uncalled for, and unsound," while Gov. JB Pritzker says it would be an "authoritarian...

Chief Budget Officer Michael Sitkowski speaks during a Chicago Board of Education meeting in Chicago on Aug. 13, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Borrowing, pensions and TIFs: What’s fueling the CPS budget standoff?

August 21, 2025 at 8:18 a.m.

Chicago Board of Education President Sean Harden challenged the district’s new proposed budget supported by schools' chief Macquline King.

Anjanette Young's favorite place to unwind is the lakefront, Aug. 8, 2025. Young is the social worker who police handcuffed and left naked in her home while serving a warrant at the wrong address. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Anjanette Young ordinance slated for vote — without no-knock warrant ban

August 13, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

A years-in-the-making ordinance overhauling the Chicago Police Department's search warrant policy could at last get over the finish line in September, advocates hope, but without the ban on no-knock warrants...

Chicago Public Schools interim CEO Macquline King speaks, along with Mayor Brandon Johnson, during an announcement of a historic expansion of the Sustainable Community Schools program at the South Shore Cultural Center on Aug. 4, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Mayor Johnson’s CPS chief resists City Hall borrowing plan, pension payment as budget deadline looms

August 12, 2025 at 8:21 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools interim chief Macquline King is resisting pressure from Mayor Brandon Johnson to borrow millions of dollars.

Mayor Brandon Johnson is flanked by Chicago Public Schools interim CEO Macquline King, left, and Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates following an announcement on sustainable schools on Aug. 4, 2025, at the South Shore Cultural Center. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office denied pushing to weaken CPS board voting rules — but email confirms it was a ‘goal’

August 7, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Despite Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office saying it was not pursuing changes to the Chicago Board of Education’s voting procedures, his top Springfield lobbyist emailed about it in May.

The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, on July 8, 2025, in Washington. (Kent Nishimura/Getty)

HUD drops housing discrimination complaint related to aldermanic prerogative and Chicago zoning

August 7, 2025 at 10:09 a.m.

In a letter HUD sent Wednesday to the complaining parties, which was obtained by the Tribune, the agency said it was closing the case to instead focus on "real concerns...

Mayor Brandon Johnson stands during the national anthem along with Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling during a CPD graduation and promotion ceremony on July 22, 2025, at Navy Pier. (Dominic Di Palermo/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson says police, fire pension sweetener will make Chicago finances ‘far more difficult’

August 5, 2025 at 5:49 p.m.

Days after Gov. JB Pritzker signed a pension sweetener for Chicago cops and firefighters into law, Mayor Brandon Johnson said it will set back Chicago's fiscal health.

More than 200 Chicago Police Department members during a promotion and graduation ceremony at Navy Pier on Aug. 28, 2023. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Police Department brass accused Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget office of ‘systemically’ delaying paychecks

July 22, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration acknowledged that about 60 police academy recruits saw late paychecks.

City Council members and staff clap for Ald. Walter Burnett, 27th, seated, during a the meeting at City Hall, July 16, 2025. Burnett is stepping down from City Council at the end of this month. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson again faces thorny politics of picking Zoning chair, other council appointments

July 18, 2025 at 5:25 p.m.

The heads of both the Black and Latino caucuses are calling for the Zoning Committee chairmanship to go to one of their members.

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