The city of Chicago is shifting its shelter operations for non-citizen migrants to focus on all of the city’s unhoused residents. What to do with non-citizens already here is murky.

More than 50,000 non-citizen migrants have arrived in Chicago from the southern U.S. border since August 2022. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said things have slowed down.

Voters across Illinois will see a seemingly innocuous question at the bottom of their ballots in November: “Should the Illinois Constitution be amended to create an additional 3% tax on income greater than $1,000,000 for the purpose of dedicating funds raised for property tax relief?”

Illinoisans should approach this nonbinding question with extreme caution and skepticism. It is the same smoke and mirrors of the 2020 progressive tax — or “fair tax” — that residents soundly defeated when they realized it would hurt the local businesses they want to support. Policies such as this one harm businesses first.

Chicago Public Schools canceled its upcoming monthly board meeting — previously slated for Thursday — and is rescheduling its next meeting for Dec. 12, more than a month after 10 candidates will be elected to make up half of a new, partially elected, partially appointed school board.

On Monday Mayor Johnson’s deputy mayor for education, youth and human services stepped aside, as was first reported by Crain’s Chicago Business, adding to the turmoil between the mayor’s office and school district that has been brewing in recent weeks.

A measure to lower the speed limit on many Chicago streets to 25 mph from 30 mph got the green light Monday from a City Council committee, despite opponents’ fears about an increase in road rage incidents.

The ordinance to lower speed limits on all city-owned roads was approved 8-5 by the Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety, with its chairman, 1st Ward Ald. Daniel La Spata, saying the measure “sets us on the pathway to save hundreds of lives in the next decade.”

Opening statements in the federal corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan began Monday afternoon, after federal prosecutors and defense attorneys wrapped up a lengthy jury selection process.

The two sides spent more than two weeks picking 12 jurors and six alternates, with the final alternate being picked early Monday afternoon.