The Latest Breaking News from Paul Vallas

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

“In the end, the voters were right,” consultant Chimaobi Enyia said Monday. “Paul Vallas did not deserve to be the mayor of the city of Chicago.”

Chimaobi Enyia, hired to get out the vote in Black communities, is accused of being paid for work he refused to give an accounting of or return the money when confronted by mayoral candidate Paul Vallas.

CHICAGO — Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas outspent Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson by a nearly 2-to-1 margin leading up to Vallas losing in April in the race to become Chicago’s next mayor.

CHICAGO — Outgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot used a weekly meeting with police leaders Tuesday to demand answers for why officers seemingly struggled to control crowds of young people who gathered downtown over the weekend, damaging vehicles and leading to the circulation of viral videos of the chaos, sources familiar…

CHICAGO — One warm evening last July, SEIU Local 73 President Dian Palmer got a call out of the blue from Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, who wanted to meet.

Chicago’s fiscal challenges can’t be solved with smoke and mirrors

For a coalition of young voters and those from communities of color, Johnson represented the prospect of a refreshing change

Voters aged 18-24 composed just above 3% of the total vote in both rounds of the election, an admittedly paltry figure. But turnout increased in that group, as well as in those 25-34.

Sizable runoff wins in majority-Black precincts allowed Brandon Johnson to erase a 60,000-plus vote deficit from the February general election.

The advice the former president had for the city’s new mayor-elect wasn’t about politics or policy.