Chicago Ald. David Moore is fighting to strip Mayor Brandon Johnson of his unilateral authority to end the city’s contract with the ShotSpotter gunfire detection program.

With Johnson already on record with his plan to completely phase out the program by year’s end, Moore is now proposing legislation that would require a full City Council vote before the city can take any such action, or even end funding for any of the city’s violence prevention programs.

Chicago’s progressive movement has long championed social justice interests, from good government advocates to labor rabble-rousers, police abolitionists and public education reformers.

Now, Mayor Brandon Johnson hopes to shoehorn a wealthy new group into the fold: the Chicago Bears.

While testifying in former President Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial Thursday, the former publisher of the National Enquirer reportedly said he buried a story about an alleged affair by Rahm Emanuel before the former two-term Chicago mayor’s first City Hall campaign.

David Pecker said under oath that he paid $20,000 for the story and then suppressed it, as he did for other celebrities managed by Emanuel’s brother, Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel, Politico reported.

Leaders of the Cook County Democratic Party selected Cook County Commissioner Monica Gordon to run in the November general election to replace Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough, who died April 7.

Party leaders also tapped Chief Deputy Clerk Cedric Giles to serve as the interim clerk through the end of December. Giles served as Yarbrough’s top deputy and stepped in to run the office when Yarbrough was hospitalized approximately a week before her death.

Enrollment at Illinois public schools this year dropped by nearly 10,000 students from the previous year.

That includes 1,787 fewer students at 104 suburban public school districts in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake and McHenry counties, according to fall enrollment figures released by the Illinois State Board of Education last week.

Governor Pritzker alongside the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity announced new funding for Illinois downtowns on Friday.

Eligible Illinois cities and towns can now apply for the Rebuild Illinois Downtowns and Main Streets Capital (RDMS, $20 million) and Research in Illinois To Spur Economic Recovery (RISE $10, million).