amyjacobson
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Let’s do it again! Re-Follow me. IMX_Immutable swallowed up my 38K followers. Back on AM 560 WIND 11amCT-Noon, Mon-Friday!
WATCH: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker heavily criticizes Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s team this morning for their handling of the Chicago Bears deal and lobbying state government in general. “I know that the mayor has no plan. He has come up with no plan at all about how the Bears would end up in the city of Chicago. So that’s problematic. I’d love them to be in the city but we are three years in now and he still has no plan.” “The mayor has shown up every spring at the end of session to pronounce what he would like to see happen. As you know the budget gets put together starting in November…I present that budget to the legislature in February. So that seems like a good time period to come talk to the governor’s office. Then there’s February to May. There’s all that time to come talk to the legislature, which has my budget in hand, or the governor’s office.” “Again, we’ve seen almost nothing out of the mayoral administration here on that subject or really any other. So to show up in May and have a bunch of demands seems like late in the game. And it’s unfortunate that’s happened most years.” Johnson’s chief of external affairs is Kennedy Bartley, who formerly worked as a Chicago Teachers Union-funded organizer for police and prison abolition. The mayor’s former top lobbyist, Sydney Holman, resigned in 2024 after Johnson elevated Bartley to oversee the mayor’s office of intergovernmental affairs.
JUST IN: Illinois investigating potential hantavirus case which officials say is “not linked” to the cruise ship outbreak.
A lawsuit has been filed challenging Illinois’ congressional district map over claims it relies on race to shape districts. The case, brought by a former lawmaker, argues the map violates constitutional standards following a recent Supreme Court ruling on redistricting. Supporters of the lawsuit say districts were deliberately drawn using racial criteria, while state officials have not commented on the pending case. The legal challenge adds to ongoing national disputes over how congressional maps are created. Read more: thecentersquare.com/illinois/artic…
We've filed the first lawsuit following the Louisiana Callais SCOTUS case. Our client alleges the Illinois Voting Rights Act of 2011's redistricting mandates violate the 15th Amendment and Section 2a of the national Voting Rights Act of 1965. @JBPritzker explicitly adopted racial purposes behind redistricting guidelines, namely sorting and allocating political power based on race. 🧵
"My child should have been safe in any city in this country, and she wasn’t. I blame Chicago, I do. This was not a Loyola problem, this was a Chicago problem—and she would be here. This was preventable. They had several opportunities to cooperate with ICE, and they didn't."
Weitzel, “She's a liar. This is corruption, no question. In any other IL. County, she would be found guilty based on the evidence. And they removed Judge James Brown? - I'm disappointed you got off.” @CWBChicago @WGNNews @BenBradleyTV @tahmanbradley @Awake_IL @Giersh @amyjacobson
Arlington Heights PD says a service weapon is missing after a SRO at Forest View Educational Center removed his gun from the holster to use the restroom, walked away, and could not find it when he went back. They’re calling it “an unfortunate and embarrassing incident.” @WGNNews
So predictable from @ChicagosMayor. One day after kicking off Jewish Heritage Month, Johnson posts a video of himself with notoriously vile anti-Semite, Hasan Piker. Piker is to the Left what Nick Fuentes is to the Right. We condemn Fuentes. Why is Johnson wrapping his arms around a bigot?
John Lyke and Charles Beach have known each other for 25 years Lyke even emceed Beach's swearing-in ceremony The next day, Beach vowed to fix electronic monitoring 9 days later, Lyke put a violent felon on an ankle monitor Now they're both under fire cwbchicago.com/2026/04/friend…
Today's shooter at Swedish Hospital has quite an arrest record. According to what I'm told, Alphanso Talley was also on EM for an armed carjacking last year.
