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Well, it’s May and you know what that means … May Day!
Thousands rallied downtown on Thursday to commemorate the annual celebration with Chicago roots. Organized labor and activist groups marched from Union Park to Grant Park, calling for workers’ rights and fair wages and protesting President Donald Trump’s policies targeting immigrants, federal employees and workplace diversity programs.
The president, meanwhile, marked his first 100 days in office this week and released his 2026 budget plan, which would slash most domestic spending while increasing expenditures on national security.
Bringing to an end an almost five-year ordeal, the Chicago Park District announced Thursday they reached a deal to end a lawsuit brought over the removal of Christopher Columbus statues from city parks during the 2020 protests. In the burgeoning race for Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin’s seat, Sen. Tammy Duckworth endorsed Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, giving her backing from two of the state’s highest-ranking Democrats. Plus, in an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Thursday night, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said he has not made up his mind about a third term and demurred on a 2028 presidential run.
Downstate, three children and a teenager were killed and several others injured Monday afternoon when a vehicle plowed through an after-school facility just outside Springfield. A Plainfield landlord was sentenced to 53 years in prison Friday for the murder of 6-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi and the attempted murder of the boy’s mother in October 2023, an attack a jury found to be a hate crime spurred by the war in Gaza. And former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, the one-term leader who halted the state’s death penalty before being imprisoned on federal corruption charges, died Friday in hospice in his hometown of Kankakee. He was 91.
During Wednesday night’s game between the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park, a fan fell from the 21-foot-high Clemente Wall in right field. The man remains in critical condition.
In other news, the 2025 Tony Award nominations were announced Thursday, including several nods for Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Portillo’s is giving away free sandwiches in May and a local science teacher was named Illinois Teacher of the Year.
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