Good afternoon, and blissful Friday! Heads up: I’ll be on trip for a number of weeks performing some worldwide journey. However don’t fear, my colleagues will convey you this text. Right here’s what it’s essential know right now.
1. Northwestern College professors are urging campus leaders to not make a cope with Trump
Some school members are calling on campus leaders to face as much as President Donald Trump’s administration, which has frozen $790 million in federal analysis funding to the Evanston faculty amid allegations that campus leaders fostered antisemitism. They are saying they oppose dealmaking with a “lawless” president, my WBEZ colleague Lisa Kurian Philip experiences.
These professors and a few college students have accused Trump of exploiting antisemitism in an effort to suppress First Modification-protected speech and produce universities in step with his conservative agenda. 5 Jewish senators have additionally directed this criticism at Trump.
The professors worry their faculty will observe the examples of Columbia College and Brown College, which have lately made offers with federal officers to regain a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars} in grants and contracts.
Columbia agreed to pay the federal authorities $200 million and undertake a controversial and broad definition of antisemitism that features criticism of Israel. Brown agreed to pay $50 million to native workforce improvement applications and to limit recognition of transgender college students.
“Acquiescence to the administration’s techniques would make Northwestern complicit in an assault on establishments of upper schooling, that are a vital bulwark of civil society,” the professors wrote in a letter to school management. [WBEZ]
Snelling has taken extra direct management of the police division after diminishing the function of his prime deputy this week, my colleague Tom Schuba experiences for the Chicago Solar-Occasions.
It wasn’t clear why these duties have been shifted from Yolanda Talley, whom Snelling put in in March after leaving the place vacant for 17 months. Nonetheless, the superintendent has taken a extra hands-on method to the job than a few of his predecessors.
An up to date organizational chart, shared with division members Wednesday, reveals Talley will proceed to oversee the information division; alternate response part, which fields 311 calls; and the indifferent providers unit, which works with the town’s Workplace of Emergency Administration and Communications and different companies. She may even oversee the division’s workplace of group policing.
However her workplace has misplaced management over the division’s road deputies, particular occasions part, prosecutorial methods unit and administrative assist division.
Talley, the primary Black lady to carry her place, was beforehand embroiled in a weird incident involving a drug bust together with her private automobile. [Chicago Sun-Times]
Regardless of a tough job market, some teenagers landed jobs this summer time, together with working as a lifeguard, at Chuck E. Cheese and at a Chicago museum, my colleagues Emmanuel Camarillo and Araceli Gómez-Aldana report.
The teenagers are from completely different backgrounds, with their very own motivations for looking for work. However they share the identical want to be unbiased. They made it by way of the hiring gauntlet and shared their experiences as recent faces within the office.
When requested what she has discovered by way of her job at Chuck E. Cheese, 17-year-old Carla Fernandez mentioned: “All the time simply hold a smile as a result of that truly does lots, truthfully. Everybody’s going by way of completely different stuff all through the day. You simply acquired to maintain that smile.” [Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ]
Hiring specialists mentioned teenagers searching for work ought to begin looking out early, ask everybody they know for leads and put together for interviews. [Chicago Sun-Times]
The convicted former Illinois Home speaker’s appellate workforce features a “legendary excessive court docket litigator” who touts an 81% win fee on the Supreme Courtroom, my colleague Jon Seidel experiences for the Chicago Solar-Occasions.
Now their effort to reverse Madigan’s conviction may contain attempting to get the nation’s highest court docket to additional restrict legal guidelines meant to struggle public corruption.
Madigan formally appealed his conviction July 23. Then, earlier this week, six attorneys from the Williams & Connolly regulation agency based mostly in Washington, D.C., filed appearances on behalf of the once-powerful Southwest Aspect Democrat. [Chicago Sun-Times]
5. The 2027 All-Star Sport is formally coming to Wrigley Area
It will likely be the primary time Wrigley Area has hosted an MLB All-Star Sport since 1990, the Chicago Solar-Occasions’ Maddie Lee writes.
Security issues stored the Cubs out of the rotation lately. However in June, the Chicago Metropolis Council handed an ordinance to boost safety measures round Wrigley Area.
The Cubs, native elected officers and Main League Baseball made the announcement on the sphere this morning after months of anticipation. [Chicago Sun-Times]
Right here’s what else is going on
- The Company for Public Broadcasting is about to start winding down operations this fall after Congress voted to chop practically $1.1 billion in federal funding. [NPR]
- Inventory markets dropped as Trump unleashed a brand new spherical of world tariffs. [NPR]
- U.S. employers added simply 73,000 jobs final month, nicely wanting the 115,000 anticipated. [AP]
- A Vatican opinion launched shortly earlier than Pope Francis died advises in opposition to public church listings of clergy members deemed to have been credibly accused of sexual abuse. [Chicago Sun-Times]
Oh, and another factor …
Chicago Excessive Faculty for the Arts hosted a homecoming this week for R&B singer Ravyn Lenae, who was as soon as a pupil with promising expertise and massive desires on the West City faculty.
A flood of reminiscences washed over the 2017 graduate as she toured the halls. She identified the classroom the place she took drivers ed, the big ensemble room the place she rehearsed and even her previous locker that she would depart unlocked as a result of she may by no means bear in mind the code.
As Erica Thompson writes for the Chicago Solar-Occasions, the reunion was additionally particular for present college students and alumni, as they filed into the Black Field Theatre to attend a Q&A with Lenae.
Set to make her Lollapalooza debut right now, the South Aspect native is having fun with a interval of success marked by a prime ten hit with “Love Me Not” and a fall tour opening for Sabrina Carpenter and Renee Rapp. [Chicago Sun-Times]
Inform me one thing good …
When you may create any pageant within the Chicago space, what wouldn’t it be? It may be as massive as Lollapalooza or one thing smaller, like a road fest centered round one meals.
Tim Lyman writes:
“The Pageant I’d like to see is an Worldwide Commerce Honest. Once I was a child that they had them yearly at Navy Pier. Then within the early 2020s WBEZ had a present devoted to worldwide cultures. Sadly I’ve forgotten the title of the present and its host however they sponsored a small Worldwide Commerce Present at UIC for a few years. I completely beloved these commerce gala’s the place nations, the small in addition to the massive, featured handmade crafts, dancing, music, costumes and meals. I acquired many nice items at these gala’s. It uncovered individuals to cultures around the globe and served to convey individuals collectively, one thing in nice want right now.”
Alicia writes:
“There was a sizzling air balloon launch out of Grant Park headed throughout the lake. So many colourful man balloons. No matter occurred to that one?”
Thanks for all of the responses this week! I obtained greater than I may embody within the e-newsletter, nevertheless it was nice listening to all of your concepts.
