Good afternoon! It’s Wednesday, and certainly one of my favourite bands from center college, Chicago’s personal Rise Towards, has a new album. Right here’s what else it’s good to know right this moment.
Brokers with the Division of Homeland Safety, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Safety could be housed at Naval Station Nice Lakes close to North Chicago from Sept. 2-30, in accordance with an e mail despatched Monday from Navy Cpt. Stephen Yargosz to his management group.
“These operations are just like what occurred in Los Angeles earlier this summer season. Similar DHS group,” wrote Yargosz, the commanding officer of Naval Station Nice Lakes. “… This morning I obtained a name that there’s the potential to additionally assist Nationwide Guard models. Not many particulars on this proper now. Primarily a number of considerations and questions.”
He mentioned the operation would deal with “downtown Chicago,” and a proper “request for help” nonetheless required approval from Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Two sources with data of the e-mail confirmed it was genuine, my colleague Violet Miller experiences for the Chicago Solar-Instances.
Trump has threatened to ship troops to Chicago to get a deal with on what he has characterised as rampant crime and lawlessness — a transfer Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson referred to as pointless provided that crime within the metropolis has fallen considerably this yr. Johnson and Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth mentioned they hadn’t obtained any details about the planning. [Chicago Sun-Times]
2. Gun violence survivors say federal troops is not going to make Chicago safer, however assets will
Violence prevention leaders mentioned since taking workplace for his second time period, President Donald Trump has undermined confirmed options to gun violence. Additionally they mentioned his proposal of utilizing the army to handle crime will make neighborhoods extra harmful.
In the meantime, on a regular basis Chicagoans interviewed by WBEZ and the Chicago Solar-Instances mentioned they don’t assume Chicago’s crime issues warrant a militaristic response.
“As soon as once more, our communities are being threatened by insurance policies rooted in concern,” Yolanda Androzzo, government director of One Purpose Illinois, mentioned yesterday. “The Trump administration’s menace to ship Nationwide Guard troops to Chicago will not be about security, it’s about management via intimidation and concern.”
Though the president claims motion is required to handle crime in Chicago, town has seen a 30% decline in homicides, an almost 35% decline in robberies and a 40% decline in shootings yr over yr. [WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times]
In the meantime, Illinois officers say they’re learning a California authorized battle over the Nationwide Guard whereas awaiting Trump’s subsequent transfer. [Chicago Sun-Times]
Hospitals, faculties and group teams depend upon social employees. However some are involved college students might be deterred in the event that they want expensive personal loans to get a grasp’s diploma, my WBEZ colleague Lisa Kurian Philip experiences.
Signed into regulation in July, President Trump’s legislative bundle — referred to as the One Massive Lovely Invoice Act — caps the quantity of federal debt college students can tackle to pursue graduate levels.
Beginning July 2026, college students will solely be allowed to borrow $20,500 from the federal authorities per yr. Grasp’s levels in social work can value upward of $45,000 a yr, significantly at personal universities — and usually, a graduate diploma is required to work within the subject.
“The rub is that schools can’t reverse years of worth will increase in a single day,” Peter Granville, a fellow on the left-leaning Century Basis, wrote in a current evaluation. “College students will nonetheless face excessive tuition payments and dwelling prices regardless of the brand new borrowing limits, and they’ll shoulder the burden of this alteration in the event that they wish to proceed to pursue larger training.” [WBEZ]
4. Mayor Johnson is ready to nominate a brand new CPS board member forward of a good funds vote
Mayor Brandon Johnson will fill an empty seat on Chicago’s college board earlier than tomorrow’s vital funds vote through which he wants nearly all of members to decide to masking a controversial municipal pension fee, my colleague Sarah Karp experiences.
Ángel Vélez is a variety, fairness and inclusion guide with a doctorate in training coverage, group and management from the College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He’ll be sworn in at tomorrow’s board assembly to symbolize District 9A on the South Facet, a seat that has been empty since June.
As issues stand, the mayor probably doesn’t want Vélez’s vote to prevail. A majority of the 21-member board — appointees and elected allies — have backed Johnson’s model of the funds for this college yr. [WBEZ]
The artist, who spent six months in Chicago in 1941 in the course of the flowering of town’s Black Renaissance, persistently created art work with an emphatic, typically pointed sociopolitical message.
As Kyle MacMillan experiences for the Chicago Solar-Instances, Catlett has gained elevated consideration since her dying in 2012 at age 96. The present ought to set up her as not simply vital however nothing wanting what the museum deems a “defining artist of the twentieth century.”
“Every little thing she did was about being an energetic participant in combating for social justice, combating for equal rights, combating for individuals’s proper to have artwork, even,” mentioned Sarah Kelly Oehler, the Artwork Institute’s curator for Arts of the Americas. “Her whole mandate as an artist was to supply artwork to individuals who wouldn’t essentially have entry to it.” [Chicago Sun-Times]
Right here’s what else is going on
- Two youngsters are useless and 17 individuals have been injured in a Minneapolis college capturing. [NPR]
- Trump prolonged his management over Washington, D.C., by taking up administration of town’s Union Station from Amtrak. [AP]
- The FDA accepted up to date COVID-19 photographs however narrowed their use for youthful adults and youngsters to these with at the least one high-risk well being situation. [AP]
- O’Hare Airport’s long-awaited terminal design is lastly chickening out. [Chicago Sun-Times]
Oh, and yet one more factor …
The annals of American political historical past have seen many uncommon presidential candidates. However maybe none are fairly as uncommon as Pigasus — a literal pig who briefly ran for top workplace in 1968.
She was nominated by the Youth Worldwide Social gathering, higher often known as the Yippies, who have been main gamers within the period’s anti-war protests and wished to take a stand towards what they deemed corruption in American politics.
Chicago police, having no endurance for porcine politics, rapidly arrested six human protesters and detained the candidate.
However did they actually put her on a spit afterwards?
After digging into the scuttlebutt, WBEZ’s Curious Metropolis believes the rumors are false. Newspaper experiences from the time reveal that Pigasus was rapidly turned over to the Anti-Cruelty Society by the police. [WBEZ]
Inform me one thing good …
Now that summer season is winding down, I’m questioning, what’s your favourite reminiscence from this season?
Anneliese writes:
“We went to The Philippines this previous July to see household. My 83-year-old mom tried snorkeling for the primary time!! She was capable of float within the water in Palawan on her personal after some teaching and assist. This was all very thrilling for us to witness. She beloved it!! We’re so happy with her for giving it her greatest shot.”
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