NEW: U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development says former Ald. Walter Burnett, nominated by Mayor Brandon Johnson to run the CHA, requires two waivers to avoid conflict of interest rules. Waiver process timeline would ensure CHA is without a permanent leader for over 1 year.

“The most vulnerable right now are immigrants. But who’s next?” Our conversation with Mary Meg McCarthy, executive direct of Chicago-based nonprofit National Immigrant Justice Center. chicagomag.com/chicago-magazi…

Has anyone done an analysis of what the total long tail liability on these police settlements are? Is it time to require LEOs to carry professional liability insurance and peg premiums to their police conduct records? Can the city insure for these liabilities in some other way?

Quite ugly behavior from Amit Mehta. Honestly Congress should just strip the D.C. district and circuit courts of authority over antitrust and agency matters. It's a rogue group.

Alec Stapp And just wait until you see what we have cooking for coach houses this Thursday. There’s a labor provision that ~zero contractors qualify for. No exemptions. x.com/alexnitkin/sta…

Thank goodness there isn’t anything going on in Chicago that requires staffers to do real work and not serve as a padded cheer section on a normal City Council day

NEW: Shelters housing unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," an ICE operation that seeks to pressure children to drop their claims and return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted.

Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office just issued a statement saying the 26th Ward alder faced "handcuffing and threat of arrest" amid ICE enforcement in Humboldt Park, including tear gas used at the Home Depot on Cicero and Armitage & at Rico Fresh on Armitage and Central Park

The concept of the guy who said this considering a veto of SB 79

An absolutely terrifying SCOOP from Matt Burgess and Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places) revealing that everything from inflight browsing data to military communications are being beamed unencrypted from satellites all the time wired.com/story/satellit…

None of these are Chicago.

Belmont Cragin business owners are begging for support as ICE fears devastate sales and closures loom. blockclubchi.co/4ouCMAR

People in our community are scared to leave their homes. What are we even doing here, guys?

This is astounding and evil Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries, per FORTUNE

I agree. Rep Chuy Garcia’s decision to end his re-election at the last second and plant his chief of staff as the only candidate to succeed him was undemocratic and should not be allowed. Standing against corruption means standing up no matter which political party violates. The

ICE has arrested about 600 immigrants in the city of Chicago. You know how many of them have criminal records? Sixteen. They promised to secure the border and remove anybody who was violent — and they lied. Instead, they're kidnapping innocent people just doing their jobs and

new - Rep. Chuy García has denied purposely clearing a path for his chief of staff to take his seat without facing a primary, but a document filed with Illinois elections officials shows he was the first to sign her nominating petitions, days before he announced his retirement.

Just in case anyone needed a reminder. This is not how and objective sense of morality works.