At least 13 people were shot, four of them fatally, from Friday evening into Saturday night across Chicago, as the city continues to grapple with relentless gun violence under Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) accused the Trump administration on Sunday of deliberately escalating tensions in Chicago to justify deploying more federal troops to the city. Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, Pritzker said federal agents were turning routine policing operations into scenes of chaos and fear.
On CNN’s The Situation Room Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson sharply criticized President Trump’s comments about sending U.S. military forces into American cities. After reading Trump’s remark that Chicago might become a “training ground” for military deployment, Johnson called the statement “absolutely appalling” and labeled Trump an “unstable human being.”
Border Patrol agents in Chicago have arrested a suspected member of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) during a raid in a suburban Home Depot parking lot. The operation took place under Operation Midway Blitz, a targeted enforcement effort aimed at removing dangerous criminal aliens from the city.
Bloomington has become the latest Illinois city to reinstate a one-percent grocery tax, joining hundreds of municipalities preparing for the state’s elimination of the levy in 2026. Meanwhile, Chicago could face an $80 million budget shortfall after failing to act before the October 1 deadline.
Mayor Brandon Johnson is defending his administration’s approach to fiscal management, asserting that Chicago does not have a spending problem despite the city’s budget ballooning to $17.1 billion and a projected deficit rising to $1.15 billion.
