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Mayor Brandon Johnson moved ahead Friday on his plan to close Chicago’s migrant shelters and fold them into the city’s existing system for homeless residents. The so-called “One Shelter” system will combine shelters that have long served the city’s homeless with several facilities launched to care for the over 50,000 migrants who came to Chicago since August 2022. The shift, announced in September and finally carried out just days before the Christmas holiday, marks the end of the city’s migrant crisis response. “That period has almost come to a close,”...

Catch up quick: Differences between Johnson and the board emerged during CPS' budget process in July when the board defied the mayor's directive to take out a high-interest loan to cover non-teacher pensions and the new Chicago Teachers Union contract. • Tensions heated up more recently as CPS CEO Pedro Martinez claimed the mayor asked for his resignation — a contention the mayor disputed this week — but the board, which controls the CEO's fate, chose not to fire Martinez. What they're saying: CPS has not responded to Axios requests...

A sentencing hearing began Wednesday for the man convicted of killing Chicago Police Officer Ella French three years ago. Emonte Morgan was found guilty in March, just three and a half hours after jurors began deliberating. At his weeklong trial, prosecutors played harrowing footage of the traffic stop that went from routine to deadly in seconds, claiming French’s life and seriously wounding her partner, Officer Carlos Yanez. As with the trial, the fifth-floor courtroom was packed Wednesday morning with officers, some in uniform, who had come to see the conclusion...

With the Democratic National Convention taking place in Chicago, it’s best to understand Chicago’s mayor, Brandon Johnson, not as a Democrat but as an extension of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU).

Protesters flooded the streets of downtown Chicago on Sunday ahead of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), CBS News Chicago reported. The DNC officially kicks off Monday and will continue through Thursday, when Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to formally accept the 2024 Democratic nomination for president. On the eve of the DNC, however, downtown Chicago witnessed a significant protest organized by Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws, a coalition of feminist and LGBTQ organizations, according to CBS News Chicago.

A federal judge in Chicago handed anti-Israel protest groups a loss this week, rejecting their request for more space to protest the Gaza counteroffensive outside the Democratic National Convention next week. Four groups seeking to organize protests – the Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the Anti-War Committee, Students for a Democratic Society at UIC, and the U.S. Palestinian Community Network – asked for parade permits giving them authorization to march over an expanded area.

Chicago police are investigating after two separate shootings overnight left more than a dozen people injured. In both incidents, police were responding to a call of a person shot when they discovered multiple victims had sustained gunshot wounds following an exchange of gunfire by two people that fled the scene. The first incident occurred just after midnight in the 1300 block of W. Hastings in the city's Little Village neighborhood, police said. Eight people, ranging in age from 18 to 74-years-old, were injured, police said. Four people -- a 74-year-old...