Prosecutors introduced secretly recorded audio and video along with a troubled star witness at the public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Former Chicago Alderman Daniel Solis returned to the Everett McKinley U.S. Courthouse Monday. Solis is facing one federal count of bribery under a deferred prosecution agreement. The ex-alderman began cooperating with federal investigators in 2016.

Mayor Brandon Johnson said Monday he planned to restore scores of unfilled Chicago Police Department positions tasked with implementing the federal consent decree into the 2025 city budget following weeks of backlash that his plans to cut those vacant jobs would endanger police reform efforts.

In a statement, the mayor’s office said Johnson would introduce a budget amendment adding back the 162 vacancies he originally slashed in next year’s budget plan — jobs spread throughout the Police Department, including the offices of constitutional policing and community policing. The U-turn is the latest instance of the mayor reversing course on a controversial provision in next year’s budget, which faces a $1 billion hole, including backing down on an original proposal for a $300 million property tax hike.

Marc Byrnes remembers the day he opened his property tax bill this summer to find it had quadrupled from the previous installment.

“I think a fair number of people would have damned near had a heart attack when they read what I received,” Byrnes said.

The Bears have reached a tentative agreement with three Arlington Heights-area school districts over a long-running property tax dispute for the 326-acre Arlington Park property, officials confirmed Monday.

The deal, brokered by Arlington Heights village officials, must still earn approval from the elected village board and boards of education in Northwest Suburban High School District 214, Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 and Palatine Township Elementary District 15.

“This time of the year in the wintertime… I don’t like it. I don’t like it at all.” That’s what one man living in an encampment had to say about a recent public camping ban.

Now, the City of Peoria is working aggressively to find more permanent housing for those living in tent cities throughout the city.