Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said the state should consider alternate revenue sources before taxing everyday riders to make up for a $770 million budget shortfall for local transit agencies. Despite a state law barring cooperating with immigration officials, Illinois State Police are sharing their gang database with ICE. The Chicago Fire plan to build a new stadium at The 78, a vacant space on Roosevelt Road along the Chicago River in the South Loop.

Plus, we look at a new opera premiering at the Chicago Opera Theatre that highlights the lesser-known women at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement: “She Who Dared.”