Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate!

Talks about a teen curfew are kicking back up in Chicago City Council circles. Here’s a look at our reporting on the subject: thetriibe.com/2025/06/teen...

“These alders are proposing the same old, same old, allowing corporations who are making record profits to still get away with not funding our communities, while these corporations expect our youth, expect our families to work for pennies,” one Chicago organizer said. thetriibe.com/2025/12/fact...

We have officially been on our unfair labor practice strike for one month. And in that month, 1000s of baristas in nearly 150 cities have joined together with allies, community leaders, and elected officials - all to tell Starbucks with one unified voice “NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE.”

🚨 RESTOCK ALERT 🚨 Y’all have been selling us out like crazy but we’ve got nearly everything back in stock RIGHT NOW just in time for the holidays!! Give the gift of solidarity this year and pick up some swag before it sells out again!!

City council is pushing us toward a government shutdown because some alders refuse to tax corporations and would ratherraise garbage fees and cut youth jobs instead. Every major peer city taxes big business more than Chicago. So why are some alders blocking it?

Chicago youth showed up at City Hall with one message: don’t take away the very opportunities that made this city safer. Youth are calling it out plain and simple: You can’t curfew your way to safety. You invest your way there. City Council needs to vote yes on the Protecting Chicago Budget.

As federal agents swept Chicago’s Southwest Side, CPS moms didn’t wait for permission to act. This group of parent mentors startedfood drives, organized rides to school, and kept supporting students in their classrooms — all at the same time.

We broughtTax the RichChristmas carols to the Commercial Club’s holiday dinner because too many alders are helping these CEOs push a city budget that makes working families pay more while wealthy corporations pay nothing. Chicago needs leaders who stand with the families, not with billionaires.

Chicago is heading for a shutdown because alders in the Corporate Caucus won’t commit to taxing wealthy corporationsdespite rising costs on working families. Our schools, our safety, and the workers who make this city run are not bargaining chips. Tell your alder:Keep Chicago open. Tax the rich.

A WBEZ analysis of city tax data and publicly available economic data, reviewed by four economic and labor experts, found a lack of evidence that Chicago’s previous head tax, or its repeal, is to blame for job loss or growth.

The remaining residents of the South Shore apartment complex raided by federal immigration agents earlier this fall left the building Friday, scattering to different parts of the city.

We went to Greg Bovino’s mountain hometown and his last posting along the Mexico-California border — and also traced his family tree. Here’s the American story of an immigrant coal miner’s great-grandson turned scourge of foreigners chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

“A WBEZ analysis of employment data finds a lack of evidence that Chicago’s previous head tax, or its repeal, is to blame for job trends in Chicago, and sheds light on who the mayor’s new proposal could affect.” chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Happening today at 4:30, tell these “alternate budget” Alders to tax the rich instead of cutting youth employment. via @gkmc-8.bsky.social

Weekly “What’s the plan?” online meetings with Indivisible at indivisible.org/indivisible-trainings. If unable to attend live, watch videos at youtube.com/@indivisibleteam.

NEW: The recent government shutdown, with families skipping meals and babies unfed, could have been a preview of what’s to come when Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill shifts billions in costs for the SNAP program to states that may not be able to afford them.

NEW — With Mayor Johnson and a fraction of the Chicago City Council seemingly at an impasse, one question surrounding the budget debate is why some alders would choose implementing regressive fees on working people over taxing corporations. thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...

🎅🏽Santa got arrested for protecting youth jobs. We have grinch Alders who would rather squeeze working-class families than tax the ultra-wealthy corporations. Tax the rich. Call your alder and tell them to pass the Protecting Chicago’s budget.

Coalitions including the CTU, the Public Health and Safety Campaign, and People’s Unity Platform Release New Budget Countdown Website:KeepChicagoOpen.com

🎅 Santa suits, sleigh bells, and cold streets: all to send one clear message: Tax the ultra-wealthy, not working Chicagoans. While we fight for a fair budget, some Grinch alders are trying to gut support for working families. Call your alder and tell them vote YES on the Protecting Chicago Budget.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration officially reviewed the Corporate Caucus proposal and rejected almost every idea as either unwise or unworkable. The choice is clearer than ever: Make billion-dollar corporations pay their share, not the people who keep this city running.

Cook County Commissioner and CTU member Tara Stamps breaks down big news: Cook County Promise, the guaranteed income pilot, is being extended with an additional $7.5 million to support even more families! This is the first permanent county-wide guaranteed income program in the country.

WTTW reports what Chicagoans have been saying for weeks: the math doesn’t math. The Corporate Caucus’s “alternative budget” is built on bad math and hidden costs for working families. The Protecting Chicago Budget is grounded in real numbers& real programs, not by doubling garbage fees.

“The alternate budget…relies on regressive fees, according to expert analysis. Some of those include a garbage fee hike from $9.50 to $18 and increasing the city’s liquor tax by 3%.” Alternate Chicago budget from 26 alders leans on regressive fees. Why? thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...

Chicago Black Friday, “Tax the greed! Fund the need!” via CORE member Kobi Guillory fightbacknews.org/articles/chi...

Solidarity with @ilhanmn.bsky.social from Chicago’s Public Educators. Diversity is our strength.

Chicago’s own school board members are sounding the alarm: If City Council blocks the Protecting Chicago Budget,schools will feel it first with staffing cuts and fewer programs. Tell your alder:Vote YES on the Protecting Chicago Budget. Read more: blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/26/c...

A group of alders is out here calling themselves “Common Sense Caucus" while pushing a budget full of fee hikes oneverything regular people touch. The Protecting Chicago Budget is theonlyplan that protects schools and youth jobs withoutjacking up fees on working families.

At the 18th Street Pink Line, Reverend Tanya Lozano asked one simple question: Who should pay for this city: the working families who make it run or the billionaires who keep getting a free ride? Chicagoans didn’t hesitate. Ping-pong ball after ping-pong ball landed in the same tube: Tax the rich.

ICYMI: Ilhan Omar claps back at Trump; Dr. Gartner of Duty to Warn offers a fresh warning on Trump’s cognitive decline, Stephen A Smith is loud and wrong, a Florida congresswoman debates who is a war criminal, and we meet a military veteran candidate to replace MTG. www.youtube.com/live/NVTgKI-...

See you today at 4pm!

In kitchens around the nation, Black men in particular are bringing nuance, spices, and an eye toward land acknowledgement and reparations to the table. thetriibe.com/2024/11/gend...

This Black Friday, small and Black business owners hope to see a boost in sales as people across the country participate in economic boycotts pressuring corporate companies to stop colluding with the Trump administration. thetriibe.com/2025/11/blac...

"Israel's insidious war crimes have not subsided just because Trump succeeded in convincing Western public opinion that the genocide in Gaza has paused."

South Shore residents of the apartment building raided by ICE expressed feeling abandoned by city and state leaders. One resident said tenants still haven’t heard from Ald Gregory Mitchell (7th Ward). The South Shore building is in his ward. thetriibe.com/2025/11/buil...

Chicago is a model of resistance for cities battling federal immigration enforcement operations. Check out how from @thetriibe.com thetriibe.com/2025/11/chic...

#BlackFridayBoycott tips ❌ Big Box Stores ❌ Amazon ❌ Shopping Malls ✅ Locally owned ✅ Small independent stores ✅ Minority owned and operated

NEW — Today, Mayor Brandon Johnson joined GoodKids MadCity’s “Feed the Block” event ahead of Thanksgiving. GKMC members took Johnson on a tour and reiterated their desire to build a new community center on a vacant lot behind Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church. thetriibe.com/2025/11/mayo...

Residents of the Harrison Courts Apartments complex say they have grown tired of asking the Chicago Housing Authority to make repairs and fix a rodent problem.

Residents are leaning on neighborhood pantries to put food on their tables this Thanksgiving as food insecurity and SNAP uncertainty linger.

While some Chicago City Council members say Johnson has not been working collaboratively through the budget process, organizers who helped shape the proposal say different, adding that tweaks were expected as long as the bottom line is met: taxing the rich. thetriibe.com/2025/11/why-...

Members of City Council just sent a loud and clear message to Chicagoans. 25 alders would rather protect the biggest corporations in Chicago than protect you from another property tax hike. Call your alder. Tell them to vote YES on the Protecting Chicago Budget.

Your alder has a choice: Invest in our school communities or protect ultra-wealth corporations and downtown developers. Use our new calculator to see how much your school stands to lose if City Council votes against the historic $1 billion TIF surplus. protectingchicagoschools.com/

No corporation should profit from terrorizing our Black and immigrant communities. As AT&T makes money off its contracts with ICE/CBP/DHS, these federal agencies are targeting our neighbors—and we won't stand for it. Read more about yesterday's protests: https://ow.ly/gOt750Xt6em

AT&T has acquired hundreds of millions of dollars from its contracts with DHS since the turn of the century, and now Chicagoans are attacking the service provider for its complicity in ICE’s human rights violations. From James Baratta: trib.al/3jf0SY9

Chicago City Council Voted with Ultra Wealthy Corporations and Against Chicago’s Families Today, Now They Have to Actually Present Their Own Ideas

CTU: Violence at Bright Shows the Need for City, State and CPS to Join Educators and Community Members to Fill Budget Gaps, Provide Safe Passage, Restorative Justice and After-School Programming

Chicago Public Schools officials say North Side charter operator has mismanaged itself to the brink of financial ruin www.wbez.org/education/20...

SNAP is back, but these cuts and changes are taking effect immediately thehill.com/homenews/nex...