Page 13 - Julia Ramirez News Today

CHICAGO - Tension on the Chicago's Southwest Side is escalating ahead of a community meeting scheduled for Tuesday night over Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to erect winterized tents to house migrants in an empty parking lot in Brighton Park as a scuffle between police and protesters broke out early Tuesday morning. According to the Chicago Fire Department, a woman was taken to the hospital with ...

A man recording a TikTok video was arrested for allegedly shoving South Side Ald. Gregory Mitchell on Monday morning in the lobby at City Hall, authorities said, in the second altercation involving a City Council member this past week. The 47-year-old pushed another man, later identified by sources as Mitchell, 54, in the neck area and was taken into custody, Chicago police said. Charges were ...

The alderwoman and other city officials are hosting a meeting about the city's plans for the winterized tent camp Tuesday.

The confirmation comes a week after local Ald. Julia Ramirez (12th) was attacked during an incendiary protest and a day after Ramirez released a letter distancing herself from the plan.

 

Ald. Julia Ramirez, 12th, who was cornered last week by a crowd protesting against a tentative plan by Mayor Brandon Johnson to erect winterized tents to house migrants in an empty parking lot in Brighton Park, sent a letter Sunday to her constituents that she did not offer the site as a possible location for the tents and that the mayor’s office had not consulted her about it. “When Mayor ...

Social media, where no one ever admits they are wrong, often shows Americans at their worst. Whether it’s Facebook or X (formerly Twitter), conversations are not known for nuance. People invariably intensify rather than back down and the cursed algorithms privilege and amplify conflict. For that reason, we don’t usually pay online tirades much mind. But when you read something like “Hitler ...

Chicago police rushed Alderwoman Julia Ramirez away from Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposed site of a "migrant tent city."

Antisemitic, anti-Muslim incidents and crimes are rising. Hostility against migrants led to an alderperson and her aide being attacked. People in the Chicago area have to be better than this.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday in a statement called the physical attack on 12th Ward Ald. Julia Ramirez during a migrant camp protest...