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City Hall

Mayor Johnson brands as 'terrorism' President Trump's threat to withhold federal funding to Chicago

鈥淭rying to force your will to break the spirit of working people in order to have a conversation 鈥� that鈥檚 terrorism. And we鈥檙e not going to negotiate with terrorists,鈥� Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters at his weekly City Hall news conference.

The main players in 木瓜直播 contract negotiations: Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates (from left), Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez.

Education

CTU members ratify new contract with 97% approval

The contract is the CTU鈥檚 first without a strike or a strike vote in 15 years. The agreement sets lower class size limits, gives pay raises and could add hundreds of new staff members.

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Parenting

Chicago Park District summer camp prices are going up as online registration opens this week

Online registration opened at 9 a.m. and the park district suggests creating an account or double checking your email and password.

Cherry blossom trees that have not yet reached their peak bloom line the lagoon behind the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry at Jackson Park, Saturday, April 12, 2025. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

Parks & Nature

Cherry blossoms emerge at Jackson Park

Now is the time to admire the blooms because if anything is certain, weather is unpredictable, which could affect the flowers鈥� full emergence.

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Business

Trump鈥檚 China tariff shocks Chicago-area importers

Rick Woldenberg runs Learning Resources in Vernon Hills, which specializes in educational toys. The company makes 2,400 products in China and employs about 500 people. He says the business is reeling.

People wait in line at the Saturday Real ID DMV on Saturday.

Transportation

As Real ID deadline nears, long lines and confusion at DMV centers

Real IDs will be required to fly domestically or enter federal facilities by May 7. The Illinois secretary of state advises people to wait to get one unless they really need it by the deadline.

Stanley Ikenberry helms a press conference in 2010 when he briefly returned to the helm of the University of Illinois to serve as interim president

Obituaries

Stanley O. Ikenberry, University of Illinois president who trusted in power of students, dead at 90

Chicago was a priority for Mr. Ikenberry, who consolidated two campuses 鈥� Chicago Circle and the Medical Center 鈥� in 1982.

Animals & Wildlife

Rat birth control, a more 鈥榟umane鈥� alternative to managing rodents, comes to Wicker Park and Bucktown

For 10 years in a row, Chicago has been deemed 鈥淎merica鈥檚 rattiest city.鈥� Birth control is one of the latest choices for tamping down rodent populations.

(From left) Everett Montoya, 24, of Redding, California; Edwin Davis, 37, of Minneapolis; and Cornell Wilson, 28, of South Holland; dress as Superman, Spawn and Batman, respectively, at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, known as C2E2 at McCormick Place, Saturday, April 12, 2025. | Ashlee聽Rezin/Sun-Times

Lifestyle

Photos: 20 of the best cosplays at C2E2 in Chicago

From Ladypool to Leatherface, check out 20 of the best costumes we saw Saturday at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo at McCormick Place.

(From left) The Breakfast Club actors Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez and Anthony Michael Hall participate in a 40th Anniversary Reunion panel discussion, moderated by pocast "Happy Sad Confused" host Josh Horowitz (far left), at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, known as C2E2 at McCormick Place, Saturday, April 12, 2025. | Ashlee聽Rezin/Sun-Times

Movies & TV

Original 鈥楤reakfast Club鈥� cast reunites at C2E2, shares movie memories and Chicago adventures

For the first time in 40 years, Emilio Est猫vez joined Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson to reminisce about the classic film.

Religion

Chicago-born filmmaker documents interfaith harmony in a faraway place 鈥� a former Soviet republic

A former Evangelical Baptist archbishop in the small country of Georgia is behind the 鈥淧eace Cathedral,鈥� a Christian church, a synagogue and a mosque all under one roof.

Movies & TV

Attention wizards and Muggles, the 鈥楬arry Potter鈥� store opens on Michigan Avenue

It鈥檚 like shopping at the book store for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Actor Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy in the films, was in town to help launch the new store.

Kimberly Hansen, collections manager of flowering plants, wears gloves to protect her hands as she shows off deadly pong pong seeds, collected from the Philippines in 1912, in the poison plant collection at the Field Museum, Wedneseday, April 9, 2025. | Ashlee聽Rezin/Sun-Times

Museums & Zoos

鈥楾he White Lotus鈥� deadly pong-pong seed gets star treatment at Field Museum

On Tuesday, the public can get a close-up look at the now-infamous seeds during a special viewing at the museum. In addition, the Field is also spotlighting its exhibit on dire wolves, which also made news this week.

Criminal Justice

Ex-Pritzker aide 鈥榓ssisting authorities鈥� in federal extortion case involving Lincoln Park restaurant owner

Lisa Duarte, now a high-profile lobbyist, says she鈥檚 a victim of Jawad Fakroune, who鈥檚 accused of shaking down a Lincoln Park restaurateur, but won鈥檛 say why she paid nearly $20K in property taxes on a Lemont estate where Fakroune lived that was raided by FBI.

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Immigration

Questionable ICE 鈥榳ellness check鈥� caught on video in suburban Highwood

Ashbey Beasley, an activist who witnessed the 2022 mass shootings in Highland Park, posted a video on Instagram showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the door of a suburban resident鈥檚 home.

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