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* Sun-Times | Pritzker, Democratic leaders take victory lap for reaching budget deal — and only drag their feet a bit in actually filing bill: And by Wednesday night, the Illinois Senate adjourned without taking it up, as Illinois Senate President Don Harmon acknowledged there was a “mechanical impossibility” for them to pass the legislation in time for the House to read it into the record on Wednesday, a step that must come before that chamber can vote on it.

* Tribune | Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Democratic legislative leaders herald budget deal, but day ends without a vote: Legislators have until May 31 to approve a budget with a simple majority. After that, it would require a three-fifths vote in favor in both the House and Senate. Democratic supermajorities in both chambers are strong enough to meet the higher threshold.

* Crain’s | How Illinois’ $50 billion budget deal got done: The main move came when Democratic lawmakers agreed to give the governor what he described as seven management “tools” to slash health spending for immigrants. Details weren’t immediately available about what those tools encompass, but the final budget figure for that item now will be $550 million, not the advertised $1.1 billion.

* Nadig Newspapers | Senator Pacione-Zayas readies to resign to officially work in Mayor Johnson’s inner circle: State Senator Dr. Cristina Pacione-Zayas (D-20) said she is finishing work on several bills in the Illinois legislature before she resigns to officially continue in her new role as first deputy chief of staff in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration.

* Shaw Local | Staggering new abuse report should spur learning, action: All this crime falling under the umbrella of “the Catholic Church” or sorted amongst Illinois’ six dioceses certainly sets it apart from one-off abusers, both in terms of the sheer scale of numbers and the context of the size of the establishment and specific, administrative choices that continued rather than curtailed. But this one institution, and even its individual operations, are far from the only environments where abuse is possible and plausible without safeguards.

* Agri Pulse | Illinois dust storm underscores the urgency for a new approach to farming: Soil is a finite resource — the foundation of our food supply and habitat for about a quarter of the world’s biodiversity. Soil is one of the earth’s greatest carbon-capturing systems. When it blows away with the wind, it’s always a tragic loss — even when it doesn’t cause fatal car crashes.

* Sun-Times | Housing plan for migrants proposed by group of Latino City Council members: The plan, backed by Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) and others, includes finding unused buildings that, with community approval, could be temporary shelters — and the first step on the road to permanent housing for migrants and homeless people.

* Tribune | Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first City Council meeting: Early victory on installing allies, a dig at Fox News and a delay on migrant spending vote: “This City Council meeting is being recorded live from Naperville,” Johnson joked, a jab at a “Fox & Friends” segment in which two men were interviewed at a diner in the western suburb about crime in Chicago and their purported lack of faith in Johnson. The clip that aired the day of Johnson’s inauguration last week was panned for taking place about 30 miles away from the city, and the two Black Chicagoans featured told The TRiiBE their appearance was arranged in advance and they were misled about the purpose of the interview, which they thought was about gun violence only.

* Sun-Times | 2 Chicago-area brothers plead guilty to assaulting officers in Jan. 6 Capitol breach: Daniel and Joseph Leyden, of Chicago and La Grange, respectively, attended the “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., pushing to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election results fueled by remarks from former President Donald Trump. The brothers joined other rioters in marching toward the Capitol and pushing past barricades, according to court documents.

* WBEZ | Authorities are recovering more carjacked vehicles in Chicago, providing crucial data: The regional carjacking task force was formed in March 2021 in response to a dramatic increase in hijackings during the pandemic. Data from the city of Chicago show the number of vehicular hijacking victimizations leapt up from 736 in 2019 to 1,684 in 2020. The number got even higher in 2021 before starting to recede last year.

* WBEZ | Chicago promised students would do better after closing 50 schools. That didn’t happen.: Ten years ago, Chicago officials closed 50 schools in large part because they said Chicago Public Schools had too many seats for too few students. At the same time, federal education policy promoted closing struggling schools or firing their entire staff and handing their management to private companies — and other cities closed schools, too, in the name of school reform.

* Tribune | Mapping a threat: Read the investigation on disparities in Chicago’s summer heat: “We will see more heat waves like the ‘95 Chicago heat wave,” said Elena Grossman, director of the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “That will become a constant reality.”

* Block Club | The Weekend Blue Line Is Finally Back: Crews have successfully replaced the old Belmont crossover along the O’Hare branch. Normal service between the Addison and Western stations will resume this weekend, officials said.