John Byrne

editor for the Chicago Tribune.

[Jake Sheridan @JakeSheridan_]

NEW: A majority of Chicago aldermen are calling on Mayor Brandon Johnson to remove this display.

The 27 aldermen who signed a letter to the mayor condemned these protest puppets at the taxpayer-funded Cultural Center as anti-Semitic. For @chicagotribune: https://t.co/zFkkVa9mJo

[Claire Malon @ClaireMalon]

Only 63.3% of Chicago registered voters cast ballots in Tuesday's presidential election — the second lowest turnout rate in at least 80 years.

The lowest? 1996. Coincidentally, both years when the city played host to the DNC.

More with @rap30 here:
https://t.co/fnorHekwn0

[Chicago Tribune Politics @ChiTribCloutSt]

‘The community knew better’: How a trio of independent school board candidates topped their better-funded opponents https://t.co/OZVLJMCRZf

[Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune]

Desperate to avoid hitting Chicago home and business owners with a $300 million property tax increase, aldermen pelted the mayor’s finance team Wednesday with questions about alternatives to plug the 2025 budget hole.

https://t.co/jbHRKuMJPQ

[John Chase @chasejohn]

Donald Trump shatters “Blue Wall” and wins presidency. Trump lost Illinois twice (2016, 2020) by 17 points but lost it this year by only 8. And he wins Penn, Wisco and leading Michigan. Latest story by @rap30 here: https://t.co/YXXj9taiIs

[Alice Yin @byaliceyin]

Polls have closed in Chicago’s historic, decades-in-the-making elected school board races. Follow @StacyStClair, @SeraMak, @nellbsalzman, @IkramMohamed_, @sylvanlebrun and me on results tonight and how we got here: https://t.co/05AKSB3juy

[Dan Petrella @PetrellaReports]

Polls close in Illinois in 15 minutes. Follow along with results here: https://t.co/w2k1VIwhNe. I'll be tracking all 17 congressional districts with @srfreish and, live from Moline, @JakeSheridan_.

[Jake Sheridan @JakeSheridan_]

Good morning from the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway in Illinois, where I saw this — a reminder that regardless of who wins, there’s a whole lot of Republicans in blue states & a whole lot of Democrats in red states.

[Nell Salzman @nellbsalzman]

More social media posts surfacing, this time involving school board member Olga Bautista.

This is following a heated school board meeting where Bautista was questioned by an audience member about having her signature on a letter calling Zionists similar to white supremacists.

[Olivia Olander @oliviaolanderr]

"A man who doesn’t use email and has never sent a text, Fiedler said false information can easily spread today because of the internet, adding that the false news of his death was a small, relatively harmless example of that." good stuff by @breenreports
https://t.co/IgcHL4sQOc

[Jake Sheridan @JakeSheridan_]

Mayor Brandon Johnson is heading to Milwaukee & Durham NC this weekend to campaign for Kamala Harris in the closing days of the presidential election, spokesperson says.

Johnson's made weekend visits to Black churches in Pittsburgh, Las Vegas & Detroit to back the Democrats.

[Ray Long @RayLong]

A chapter has ended, but story not over for bookstore owner thought to have died: 'People can think you’re dead…”

Indeed, instead of resting in peace, he’s simply resting. ⁦@breenreports⁩ https://t.co/FEeO4dN4qb

[Olivia Olander @oliviaolanderr]

.@feigenholtz is apologizing for this now-deleted tweet. Comes shortly before @cairchicago is expected to hold a presser calling for her resignation.

Feigenholtz’s office in a statement also told me this praise was “in response to” this poster’s address to the EU Parliament.

[John Chase @chasejohn]

Here @PetrellaReports goes behind the Cheddar Curtain to explore how Illinoisans are trying to impact the presidential race. “Usually Chicago does not have a tremendous ability to impact the presidential election." https://t.co/wd3Tmu5mNM

[Chicago Tribune Politics @ChiTribCloutSt]

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s CPD budget plan cuts constitutional policing, other reform offices: ‘It’s a gutting’ https://t.co/HxFYPhFgyM

[Chicago Tribune Politics @ChiTribCloutSt]

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s school board president resigns under fire for controversial social media posts https://t.co/fA1SIuBLyj

[Chicago Tribune Politics @ChiTribCloutSt]

48 aldermen take raises as Mayor Brandon Johnson turns one down amid tricky budget https://t.co/SXkxEnqLvJ

[Alice Yin @byaliceyin]

Mayor’s statement on asking CBOE Prez Mitchell Johnson to resign: “I want to be clear: antisemitic, misogynistic, and conspiratorial statements are unacceptable.” He did not address reporter questions yesterday on the vetting process for now his second handpicked board prez

[Jake Sheridan @JakeSheridan_]

Mayor Brandon Johnson turned down a raise, but 48 out of 50 aldermen will see 4.1% salary bumps — even as the city weighs big property tax hikes.

Only Alds. Byron Sigcho-Lopez & Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez opted out among aldermen. For @chicagotribune:
https://t.co/ATCWTee2HD

[Alice Yin @byaliceyin]

Mayor Brandon Johnson responds: “I know he has since come forth and apologized for his comments and how harmful they have been to people of the Jewish community. … These are not sentiments that I subscribe to.”