Good morning, Chicago. We have stories on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s statements on immigration and the status of property tax hikes for the city.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson addresses the news media on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (Heather Cherone / WTTW News)
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In his first remarks on the victory of President-elect Donald Trump, Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday that the city will not allow Chicago police officers to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deport Chicagoans. That assistance is now prohibited by city ordinance. City officials will continue to shield all immigrants in Chicago from federal agents, regardless of whether they are citizens, permanent residents or asylum seekers.
Some background:
One of Trump’s first acts as president-elect was to name former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tom Homan as his “border czar.” Homan will lead what the official platform of the Republican Party calls the “largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”
Trump said he will instruct federal agents to conduct deportation operations at schools, churches and playgrounds and to deport all undocumented immigrants, not just those accused of criminal acts.
Homan said he would recommend that federal funds be stripped from cities that do not assist federal immigration agents. During his first term in office, Chicago fought a similar attempt all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. He also promised to “flood agents to the sanctuary cities” to deport undocumented immigrants.
Johnson said he was prepared to fight any effort to stop federal funds from flowing to Chicago because it will not cooperate with mass deportation efforts and would work to stop the arrival of immigration agents. He said those threats are “unconscionable and dangerous,” and called the president-elect a “tyrant.”
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Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks to the news media on June 12, 2024. (WTTW News)
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Mayor Brandon Johnson acknowledged Tuesday that the $300 million property tax hike he proposed to fill the city’s massive budget deficit was unlikely to win the approval of the Chicago City Council, but warned he would not accept deep cuts to city services and thousands of layoffs.
The City Council is set to meet at 2 p.m. Thursday to take what amounts to be a symbolic vote to reject the property tax hike proposed by Johnson, which would have been the largest increase since 2016 and the second largest in Chicago history.
Johnson used a Tuesday afternoon news conference to cast the City Council’s apparent refusal to hike property taxes by $300 million as evidence of his collaborative approach to governing in Chicago, and not a rebuke of his leadership.
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Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros. (Credit: Todd Michalek)
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Each Wednesday, WTTW News producer Josh Terry presents must-see live music shows from indie rock to jazz, country, hip-hop and more.
Friday, Nov. 15:
Wild Pink, John Francis Flynn at the Empty Bottle. Tickets.
2024’s “Dulling the Horns” from the New York City indie rock band is an excellent album.
Saturday, Nov. 16:
Elizabeth Moen, Family Junket, Dogcatcher at Empty Bottle. Tickets.
The Jeff Tweedy-approved Chicago artist headlines a night of folk and singer-songwriter fare in Ukrainian Village.
Sunday, Nov. 17:
Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros at Auditorium Theatre. Tickets.
The Grateful Dead singer returns to the city for a performance with the Chicago Philharmonic. Also performing Monday night.
Jess Williamson at SPACE. Tickets.
A perfect dose of country, pop and folk, “Time Ain’t Accidental” is a solid introduction to the Texas and California-based songwriter.
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Back in the Day: November 13, 1969 - Deadly Shootout Between CPD and Black Panthers
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On the morning of Nov. 13, 1969, 55 years ago today, the Chicago Police Department and members of the Black Panther Party engaged in a deadly shootout in an abandoned warehouse building on the South Side. It was one of many violent meetings between the two parties over that turbulent year. Around 3 a.m., Panther members Spurgeon "Jake" Winters, 19, and Lance Bell, 20, engaged several police officers in a gunfight. Though both parties claimed to have been ambushed, what is known is that Winters was killed in the fight and two police officers, Frank Rappaport and John Gilhooly, were killed. Seven more officers were wounded, and Bell was taken into custody. The Black Panthers treated Winters as a martyr and named a medical clinic after him, and the Black Panthers and the CPD would clash weeks later in the hourslong shootout that resulted in the assassination of Fred Hampton. Both events were portrayed and lightly reimagined in the 2021 film "Judas and the Black Messiah," where actor Algee Smith played Winters.
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