Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is laying the groundwork to push out Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez, two sources told the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ.

Martinez’s departure from the $360,706-a-year post, which has not yet been finalized, would come after he clashed with the mayor’s office and Chicago Teachers Union leaders over how to address a massive budget deficit and historical underfunding of the school system.

Chicago’s top migrant official is walking back a prediction from city leaders last month that tens of thousands of migrants would arrive by bus ahead of next week’s Democratic National Convention, saying that there is no “credible intel” that the feared surge will occur.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s deputy mayor for immigration, Beatriz Ponce de León, told reporters in July the city was preparing for as many as 25,000 migrant arrivals tied to the DNC. But President Joe Biden’s June executive order limiting asylum-seekers’ arrivals at the U.S. border has sharply changed the city’s expectations, she said.

In a stunning reversal of a move announced earlier this year, Riot Fest will once again be held in Chicago’s Douglass Park next month, organizers and the Chicago Park District announced Wednesday.

In June, it was announced that Riot Fest would be held in the parking lots surrounding SeatGeek Stadium in suburban Bridgeview, but festival organizers instead have reached a provisional agreement with the Park District, pending full approval at a meeting next month.

A Sugar Grove planning panel has recommended the plans for the controversial The Grove housing, industrial and commercial development to be built at I-88 and Route 47.

The Sugar Grove Plan Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals voted 5-2 Tuesday night to approve a planned development district and grant 38 variances from the village’s zoning code despite opposition from hundreds of people who attended a two-night meeting.

Democrats gathered in Springfield Wednesday for their annual rally at the Illinois State Fair amid a surge of enthusiasm and a renewed sense of optimism about their chances of retaining the White House in November.

“There’s a new level of energy in this effort,” U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin told reporters just before the traditional Democratic County Chairs’ Association fundraising brunch Wednesday morning. “You can’t buy it. You can’t fake it. It’s for real.”