Ready, set … go, Brandon. Chicago’s next mayor, Brandon Johnson, was to be sworn in this morning at 10:30 a.m.—along with the new City Council, the city treasurer and city clerk.
■ You can see it on the web.
■ You can also line up at City Hall to congratulate him beginning at 2 p.m.
■ Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications has been on alert for trouble.
■ The Tribune contends Johnson may be “the most progressive Chicago mayor elected, possibly ever.”
■ Johnson says he’ll give departing Mayor Lightfoot’s commissioners three months to find out if their visions align with his.
■ Johnson says he’ll give departing Mayor Lightfoot’s commissioners three months to find out if their visions align with his.
■ … its content migrated to a renamed @MayorLori56 account. (Post-inauguration update: It’s back!)
■ The Trib revisits 100 years of Chicago mayoral inauguration speeches.
4 robbers, 30 minutes, 10 victims. Chicago police were on the lookout for these guys.
Do you know where your yard waste is? Axios exposes Chicago’s legal failures in disposal of lawn and garden castoffs.
■ Here’s how it’s supposed to work (2021 link).
■ The Conversation: Corporations use “greenwashing” to fool you into thinking they’re battling climate change.
Vice News news. Vice Media—parent of sites that also include Motherboard—has filed for bankruptcy …
Vice News news. Vice Media—parent of sites that also include Motherboard—has filed for bankruptcy …
■ … a move that its leadership says “will strengthen the company” …
■ … likely by putting it partially under control of the right’s favorite boogeyman, George Soros.
■ … likely by putting it partially under control of the right’s favorite boogeyman, George Soros.
One of our rats made it. The AP reminds the world that Scabby the Rat, a symbol of the Writers Guild strike, “was actually invented by a union in Chicago around the late 1980s.”
■ Illinois lawmakers are close to making this the first state in the nation to grant financial protection to child social media influencers.
A Turkey runoff. The autocratic president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will face his pro-democracy challenger again in a second-round election.
■ Popular Information: Elon Musk’s Twitter censored itself before Sunday’s vote.
■ Media writer Tom Jones: Musk’s named a new Twitter CEO, but don’t bet on Musk taking a major step back.
Chicago Public Square didn’t make the cut this year, but … Congrats to all the winners Friday night in this year’s Chicago Headline Club Lisagor Awards …
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