I’m running for re-election to protect our progress and continue solving the problems we face. Let’s keep Illinois moving forward. jbpritzker.com

WATCH: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks condescendingly to a reporter who asks him about a letter signed by nearly 700 principals and assistant principals opposing efforts from Johnson and the Chicago Teachers Union to fire Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez.

Chicago Mayor Johnson: “Are you prepared to defend this land that was built by slaves? A land that was built by indigenous people?”

Things People are Begging for: 1. Cheaper groceries 2. No Medicaid and SNAP cuts 3. Release of the Epstein Files Things People are NOT begging for: 1. An authoritarian power grab of major cities

While ⁦@ChicagosMayor⁩ press team tried to keep reporters from asking “off topic” questions - that didn’t happen. Here’s what he said on top aide Jason Lee and⁩ reports that Lee voted in Texas - not Chicago in recent election. What about Residency rules?

Fearing rejection, vote on Mayor Brandon Johnson's $17.3 billion 2025 budget to be delayed chicagobusiness.com/politics…

CHICAGO MAYOR: "This is what our country would look like had the Confederacy won." 🤡

Every once in a while, President Preckwinkle & her protege Mayor Johnson can’t help but let slip their indifference toward crime victims & their outright animosity toward local law enforcement. Putting violent criminals in prison doesn’t protect communities?!? I will always stand with the victims of crime and back our courageous women & men in Blue, while promoting constitutional policing. Violent criminals must always be held accountable for their crimes.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, whose state has been gerrymandered to give Democrats a 14-3 congressional seat advantage, is asked how he can oppose what Texas is doing when his state is far worse. His brain malfunctions as he attempts to answer:

Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez at a summit in Mexico City this weekend tells the audience while speaking in Spanish: "I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American."

Mayor Brandon Johnson gets testy and points at Ahern with his non-answer

Enough is enough. We need the ultra-wealthy to pay their fair share so that we can fund a world-class public transit system. chicago.suntimes.com/city-ha…

RACISM: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson claims that blacks are more generous than any other race and that trait is why he only hires blacks to run the city.

JUST IN: 4-year-old boy shot while riding in car in Humboldt Park wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/…

Chicago Police and Fire pension systems are the worst funded programs in the nation. Yesterday, Gov Pritzker signed a bill further increasing benefits, adding an additional $11 billion of unfunded liabilities. Instead of trying to address the problem, Illinois has just given up.

Reaction to Lil Durk arrest from ⁦@ChicagosMayor⁩:

Here’s the truth: the only thing that has ever brought progress for our schools is a bold and determined Chicago Teachers Union in coalition with parents and students - fighting every day for a better future for our kids.

Residents want Chicago Public Schools to demand more money from the city and state to avoid making cuts that affect the classroom as the district scrambles to find solutions for a $734 million budget deficit. trib.al/4YpLPHs

Both sides at the table, going late tonight. #ContractNow

Professional victim and CTU president Stacy Davis Gates engaged in race baiting this morning. Anyone surprised?

NEW: The CTU-DSA alderman Sigcho Lopez is blasting progressives who use "very corporate language like fiscally responsible" 😆 😆 😆 ... And Mayor Johnson and the city council are about to give Byron a $1 billion TIF slush fund.

Rumors of United moving to Denver from Axios Chicago. I've also heard the planning for Denver is serious. Doesn't mean United will move, but it seems to be more than a contigency plan. Perhaps our friends in City Hall can focus more on our business climate than climate change.

3 children and 4 adults have been shot in a #MassShooting in #Chicago tonight.

JUST IN: Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson says gun violence in Chicago is actually because of red states. Johnson claimed that the gun violence in his city was Trump's fault, as he talked about guns as if they were sentient beings. "The vast majority of guns do not come from Chicago... For every gun that the Chicago PD fights to get off the streets, two or three more new guns come into our city."

I am deeply heartbroken that we lost a member of the Chicago Police Department yesterday. The entire city of Chicago joins me in mourning this profound loss. Our brave officers risk everything to protect us, and we stand united with the officer’s family and with CPD during this tragic time. Justice will prevail.

No better way to spend a beautiful Saturday than knocking doors and talking to our neighbors about the need for REAL progressive leadership in the 20th District. Only 3 weeks left. Join us!

Footage of the chaos that erupted at a crowded teen hangout by the Southgate Market tonight, resulting in two people critically wounded from gunshots. #chicagoscanner

We invite the media to examine its use of the word ‘Turmoil’. Turmoil is the violence and trauma of closing schools that were community pillars. Turmoil is a generation of students who don’t know how to check out a book. Turmoil is a ceiling collapsing due to neglect.

In her current term as president of the Chicago Teachers Union, Stacy Davis Gates has ⬇️ 🚩 Threatened a principal and former CTU delegate with physical violence 🚩 Insulted critics as “slow” 🚩 Labeled a respected local journalist as a “stalker” for reporting on her actions as the president of the single largest spender on Chicago politics 🚩 Mocked a prominent public official by comparing him to a “terrible” special education student who can’t be suspended 🚩 Called the Chicago Tribune “bullshit” and the Illinois Policy Institute “freak shows” 🚩 Killed a school choice scholarship program serving thousands of low-income Chicago children, including several who attended the same private school as her own child 🚩 Took an illegal property tax break on a home in Indiana 🚩 Failed to pay $5,700 in city trash, sewer and water bills despite making more than $269,000 a year 🚩 Improperly funneled CTU member dues into Brandon Johnson’s campaign for mayor, forcing teachers to file an unfair labor practice complaint 🚩 Spent $400K on Johnson’s signature ballot referendum to hike taxes on Chicago real estate transfers and lost 🚩 Pulled CPS students out of class for the explicit purpose of voting “yes” on that referendum, in clear violation of CPS ethics rules 🚩 Pushed for a $300M high-interest payday loan to fund a new CTU contract 🚩 Won just three of nine competitive school board elections. Nationwide, school board candidates backed by the local teachers union win 70% of the time. 🚩 Spurred local and national backlash after claiming standardized testing is junk science rooted in white supremacy 🚩 Claimed supporters of a bill to protect against closure of selective enrollment CPS schools were “racist.” The bill then passed the Illinois House 92-8. 🚩 Hid four years of union audits from CTU members. Then bullied teachers who were forced to file a lawsuit to see those audits, calling them “extreme right wing” and claiming they were associated with Project 2025. Receipts 🧵

New documented show the Chicago Teachers Union has a “recording studio” 1,000 miles away in New Mexico Images from Zillow show the property has a pool and looks like a vacation rental The money laundering never stops “Can anybody tell me why the Chicago Teachers Union needs a recording studio in New Mexico? In new documents, they spent $173,000 at 265 Sunset Road in Albuquerque. Their accounting describes it as a recording studio, Zillow shows it also has a pool. CTU described the payment as part of representational activities which legally must be associated with the negotiation administration and enforcement of collective bargaining agreements. With an audit, CTU might be able to explain how a recording studio a thousand miles away helps them with that, but they haven't released one of those in 5 years.“

As Chicago braces for the Board of Education's vote on a $10.2B budget, @ChicagosMayor is preparing again to stack the deck in his and the CTU's favor by appointing another fringe political activist to the BOE. If you are not familiar with Ángel Vélez, we'll clue you in on his CV. A flag bearer for radicalism, Vélez's doctoral dissertation praised the Puerto Rican terror group, the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN). A Marxist-Leninist separatist group which sought to break from the U.S., the FALN carried out over 130 acts of terrorism on U.S. soil between 1974-83. The FALN is responsible for four deaths. In 1977, the FALN spread its bloody campaign of terrorism to Chicago when it detonated a bomb in the Cook County building. Vélez's PhD theses referred to the FALN as "freedom fighters" and labeled jailed FALN guerrillas as "political prisoners." Naturally, Vélez's extremism appeals to Mayor Johnson, who is certain to downplay or ignore his radical views when he appoints him to the BOE. Though the Chicago BOE is in need of a candidate with rich professional experience in education, Brandon Johnson is set to appoint a cheerleader for terrorists.

On X and in a written statement, TWICE @ChicagosMayor declined to name Ofc. Enrique Martinez. The fact Johnson still refuses to say Ofc. Martinez's name represents a cruel disregard and insensitivity for this terrible loss. It could also symbolize Johnson's hostility for CPD.

Executive Order 2025-1 confronts our structural deficit head-on. By ensuring diverse voices have a seat at the table, we're building a fiscally sustainable path forward rooted in equity, expertise and collaboration.

When the alderman gets called out for lying about a conversation to score points in a Twitter discussion