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Chicago immigration advocates and politicians condemned a looming Trump administration travel ban that would bar or restrict travelers from 19 countries, a reprisal and expansion of a similar policy that was fiercely protested across the country during the president’s first term.
U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García lambasted the ban, which is set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Monday, while accusing President Donald Trump of using the restrictions as a political diversion tactic.
“This travel ban won’t make America safer or greater — instead it will isolate us and make people believe they have something to fear,” he posted on the social media site X. “It’s a distraction from the corruption of the Trump Administration.”
The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations decried the travel ban as “ideologically motivated, overbroad and unnecessary,” arguing it was signed under a false pretext of protecting national security.
Read the full story from the Tribune’s Angie Leventis Lourgos.
Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day, including what led to a flameout between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, which Illinois hospitals may soon offer a lower level of trauma care and the iconic piece from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” that is up for auction.
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Chicago police officer fatally shot in Chatham neighborhood
A Chicago police officer was shot and killed during an armed confrontation in a Chatham apartment last night, authorities said.
The officer, part of a tactical team in the Gresham (6th) District, was trying to conduct an investigatory stop on a person believed to have a weapon around 9:50 p.m. near the intersection of East 82nd Street and South Drexel Avenue, police Superintendent Larry Snelling said.
Elon Musk and President Donald Trump break up, and Washington holds its breath
Maybe it was always going to end this way, with two billionaires angrily posting about each other on social media, fingers flying across pocket-sized screens as their incandescent feud burned hotter by the minute.
But even if the finale was predictable, that didn’t make it any less shocking. After long months when Donald Trump and Elon Musk appeared united in their chaotic mission to remake Washington, their relationship imploded this week like a star going supernova.
Jury finds man guilty of killing 11-year-old Jayden Perkins as the boy protected his mother
A jury found a man guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of 11-year-old Jayden Perkins as he tried to protect his pregnant mother, ending the trial with a quick verdict after the brutal 2024 attack put a spotlight on protections for domestic violence victims and spurred new legislation.
CPS narrows interim CEO search as negligence allegations surface in top candidate’s record
The Chicago Board of Education has narrowed its list for the interim schools’ chief down to three candidates in recent days, one of whom faced negligence allegations as a principal, according to documents obtained by the Tribune through the Freedom of Information Act.
Prime Healthcare may seek lower-level trauma care at 3 of its recently purchased Illinois hospitals
Prime Healthcare may ask the state for permission to offer lower-level trauma care at three of the eight Illinois hospitals it bought early this year, compared with what those hospitals were providing before the sale, Prime said in a letter sent to U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth this week.
County caseworker accused in ex-girlfriend’s fatal stabbing allegedly threatened to kill her two months earlier, police reports show
A county caseworker accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death and severely wounding two of her sons in February had been placed on desk duty at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center after he allegedly threatened to kill the same woman two months earlier, police records show.
Caitlin Clark’s quad strain will be re-evaluated this weekend — but she’s still out Saturday vs. Chicago Sky
Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark said she remains day to day with a left quadriceps strain and will be re-evaluated this weekend after the team’s game against the Chicago Sky tomorrow at the United Center.
At 90, Oak Park’s ‘Mr. Hockey’ Paul Hruby still coaching the sport he loves
Mr. Hockey has hit 90, but he’s still not ready to put his love for the sport on ice.
Paul Hruby, whose impact on hockey in Oak Park has been so significant that the ice arena at the Ridgeland Common Recreation Center was named after him in 2007, began his ninth decade of life on May 31. He has worked for the Park District of Oak Park in some capacity for 62 years, teaching and coaching hockey and getting people comfortable in their skates.
Ferris Bueller’s iconic vest goes up for auction 40 years after famously skipping school
Few films have done more to cement the city of Chicago’s reputation in American culture than “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the 1986 teen comedy classic that follows Ferris and his two friends as they skip school in the suburbs to explore everything the Windy City has to offer.
Now, 40 years after cameras first rolled, an iconic piece of the film’s wardrobe is jumping off the screen and into one lucky fan’s closet.
‘Downton Abbey’ star will bring her play about Ava Gardner to Chicago
Elizabeth McGovern, the American actress best known for playing Lady Cora in the British TV and movie franchise “Downton Abbey,” will star in a show headed to Chicago that is based series of real-life interviews given by the Hollywood actress Ava Gardner.
Meet the former Chicago ‘theater kid’ who stages Kendrick Lamar
Mike Carson made the backdrops for school plays. He also ran the lights. He played football at Plainfield North High School, but at heart, he was a theater kid. As a child, his parents often took him to Chicago theater. That stuck in surprising ways. So much so, you are familiar with Mike Carson’s work even if you don’t know him by name, or thought of that work as theatrical.
Carson, now the creative director at pgLang in Los Angeles, is one of Kendrick Lamar’s longtime production designers and creative partners. If you’re headed to Solider Field this week to see “The Grand National Tour” featuring Lamar and SZA, know this: a lot of what you’ll see is Mike Carson’s ongoing collaboration with Lamar and Dave Free, childhood friends who cofounded pgLang in 2020 as an arts incubator.
What to do in Chicago: Blues Fest, the ‘Grand National Tour’ and Jeremy Piven doing standup
Also around the area this weekend, a big prize for fastest dinosaur at the Field Museum and a busy weekend at Ravinia Festival in Highland Park.
