New this morning: Heather Cherone and I got the receipts on overtime for the city of Chicago last year. The increase was BIG, with more than $200 million going to police alone. #twill news.wttw.com/2023/03/22/cit…

Will Community Benefits Extend Past Woodlawn? Obama Center activists draw on popular referenda to pressure candidates into delivering housing protections for South Shore ow.ly/VmIG50NozE7

New: Tina Hone and Desmon Yancy differ on how many policy demands of the Coalition for a CBA coalition they support following voters' passage of a ballot question. But organizers with Not Me We and @STOPChicago stress accountability regardless of who's elected. thedailyline.com/chicago-runoff…

Blackstone Group purchased thousands of San Diego's affordable housing units in 2021, then raised rent for some units between 43-64% in just two years, the new report says. on.nbc7.com/7UxJakA

This Chloe album is boring

Voters told Chicago via a Feb. referendum that it should create affordable housing + offer aid to South Side renters and homeowners living by the Obama Center. But whether the city acts will depend on the next mayor — and tomorrow’s runoff. New from me: wapo.st/3ZFGsCV

In the Chicago runoff, which ends today, crime has dominated. But when candidate Brandon Johnson came to the South Side to meet residents just a block from the soon-to-be Obama Center, what he got asked most about wasn’t crime. It was housing. 🧵 (1/6) washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…

Voters asked city officials to intervene, build affordable housing and protect residents. The next mayor will decide how to proceed. But amid all of this looms a question: Is it possible to stop displacement amid such colossal development? Read on: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/… (6/6)

It’s a good day for Chicago! #MayorBrandonJohnson

22,000 new votes from 18-34 year olds compared to February is absolutely wild. Give young people something to vote for and they will do it.

On the The Washington Post front page: Two years before the Obama Center plans to open, residents in surrounding communities already are feeling the shift. Rents rising. Families being displaced. How Chicago will respond now rests with its newly elected mayor: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…

Ten years ago this month, Karen Lewis left a school board meeting during which members voted to close 50 schools and said: "We have to change the political landscape in this city." Today, CTU organizer Brandon Johnson was sworn in as Mayor Brandon Johnson. chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/5/15/2372…

I gasped at the end

I think people are doing this now because they see other people doing it online. How everybody doing it got that much aim, though?