The Latest Breaking News from Lori Lightfoot

Sanctuary cities like Chicago need resources to manage what is looking to become a regular influx of bused-in migrants.

Lightfoot announced the “good news for Chicago taxpayers” one day after the Chicago Sun-Times reported some of the mayor’s closest allies had urged her to avoid risking an embarrassing budget defeat.

The increase is half what the automatic escalator approved two years ago allows. But Ald. Jason Ervin, chairman of the City Council’s Black Caucus, is among the mayoral allies advising the mayor to find another way.

State Rep. Theresa Mah had been among the strongest backers of the idea to build a new high school. But she called the city’s plan “offensive” and politically motivated.

The Illinois Policy Institute’s stance — that if the amendment is passed, the median homeowner could pay at least an additional $2,935 in property taxes in the next four years — is false, a reader says.

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

The mayor spoke at the groundbreaking for Englewood Connect, a culinary hub being built in a landmark firehouse — a building that “refused to be demolished,” said Planning and Development Commissioner Maurice Cox.

Chicago City Council members can select who they want on committees and who should lead them. State law and the city’s own rules clearly spell out they have that power. They just have always opted out and have given the mayor their blessing to do their bidding.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled a plan Monday to revive the LaSalle Street corridor, a key downtown office district that suffered the double whammy of COVID-19 and the loss of several large firms to new towers rising farther west along Wacker Drive and in Fulton Market.