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In a conversation with Jacobin, Chicago Teachers Union president Stacy Davis Gates, city councilor Carlos Rosa, and editor and organizer Alex Han discuss how Chicago’s working-class movement elected one of its own as mayor and where that movement goes now.

Like the Supreme Court, Congress must take stronger steps to give Americans confidence that they are not benefiting personally from their public office.

Lori Lightfoot ends her historic term as the first Black woman and first out gay person to serve as Chicago’s mayor on Monday, leaving a fractured city still struggling to recover from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic that served to spotlight Chicago’s deeply entrenched problems.

"It has become abundantly clear that Congress needs tougher rules around owning and trading stocks."

Who, you may ask, could possibly oppose a bill honoring the historic Abraham Accords?

Will Congress vote to end congressional stock trading?

The pair were two of the sponsors on a new bipartisan bill to ban members of Congress or their families from buying or selling stock.

 

CHICAGO — José Gonzalez has worked at Topolobampo, a Mexican fine-dining restaurant owned by celebrity chef Rick Bayless, for a decade.

The bill would give members of Congress 90 days to divest their stock holdings.