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WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz reports on the status of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's conversations with the Chicago Bears about the team's next stadium.

Community leaders and advocates rallied outside City Hall ahead of a ShotSpotter hearing to demand that the city finds a replacement to the controversial technology, after Mayor Brandon Johnson ended the city's contract with it two years ago.

Susana Mendoza is touting her fiscal work and years in public office at the state and city level as reasons why she would make a good mayor of Chicago.

In the Little Village neighborhood where she was born, the democrat became the first major candidate to formally announce she’s entering the race.

Thousands of people gathered in West Chicago on Wednesday for a chance to see Big Boy 4014, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, during a stop on its nationwide tour ahead of America's 250th anniversary celebration.

The World Business Chicago competition dubbed "Horizon Lines: Visions for Chicago 2050" garnered about 200 submissions. The six finalists are on display at the Chicago Cultural Center through September 20, 2026.

One finalist envisions a tree-focused green infrastructure to strengthen the city's climate resilience, public health and community vitality.

Another transforms Chicago's alleys into active neighborhood spaces. While a third proposes a network of major highway caps over the Dan Ryan and Eisenhower to heal divisions cause by the highway system.

A fourth finalist re-imagines the city's legacy corridors as ecological and social landscapes that expand the tree canopy-reducing heat and mitigating flooding.

Another envisions creating a "Food District" in the city with interconnected greenhouses and shared food-production infrastructure.

And the sixth finalist proposes a walkable circular economy district where reclaimed materials, local makers and public art come together.

The public is invited to share feedback on them through July 24th. The winning concept will be announced September 15th.

House Bill 5024---awaiting to be signed by Governor Pritzker---restricts the location of newly created federal immigration detention centers in Illinois.

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson says the bill will mean {quote}: "no Illinois community will be forced to absorb a detention facility in the shadow of its schools, its churches, or its homes".

In January, Broadview adopted its own municipal ordinance restricting the location of new detention facilities within its borders.

​Chicago musician and teacher Fernando Jones and his Blues Kids will perform at the Chicago Blues Fest this weekend. Jones hosts a camp each year for young people interested in the blues.

WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz reports on new optimism from the mayor of Hammond after Bears legislation failed to pass in the Illinois Legislature.