* ICYMI: Ald. Julia Ramirez issued a statement after being swarmed during the Brighton Park protest. NBC Chicago…

-“After having a few conversations, it became clear that most of the protesters did not want to engage in peaceful dialogue with me. It was truly a disappointing experience,” Ramirez said of the incident.
- In her statement she called for more transparency from the mayor’s office.
- Her aide was hospitalized after the incident, Ramirez declined medical attention.

* Related stories…

∙ Tribune: Ald. Julia Ramirez swarmed at protest over construction of migrant tent city in Brighton Park
∙ WTTW: Ald. Julia Ramirez, Aide Battered by Crowd of Protesters Outside Brighton Park Vacant Lot Set to be ‘Winterized Base Camp’ for Migrants
∙ Block Club: Alderwoman ‘Attacked’ At Protest Over Brighton Park Migrant Tent Camp

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* Sun-Times | Illinois lawmakers banned campaign contributions from red-light camera companies but take them anyway: In May, the General Assembly passed a bill to ban campaign contributions from the red-light camera industry that’s been embroiled in a bribery scandal still unfolding in federal court. […] Less than six weeks later, the Oak Park Democrat’s campaign accounts accepted two contributions totaling $5,000 from Redspeed Illinois, a contractor operating red-light cameras in a number of Chicago-area municipalities.

* Capitol News Illinois | State to pause enrollment in health care program for immigrant seniors as spending again outpaces estimates: It’s an expected move that the administration announced in June to control the rising costs of a program that has proven more expensive than its initial estimates since it became law in 2020. While no new enrollees will be accepted for the time being, those already in the program will not see any changes to their current benefits.

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* Tribune | Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he’ll agree to extend a tax credit program for private school scholarships if legislators send him a proposal: “I will support it if it comes to my desk to extend the program in whatever form,” Pritzker said during a ribbon-cutting event for the Chabad Center for Jewish Life and Living at the University of Illinois campus. “I mean, I can’t imagine it would show up in some form that I would be unwilling to. But again, the reality is that the legislature needs to go through this process.”

* WMBD | One month in, No Cash Bail seems to be not as bad as some thought, officials say: “The past month has pretty much gone as expected,” said Peoria County State’s Attorney Jodi Hoos, who, along with her colleagues around the state, helped to craft the rules regarding the elimination of cash bail. The veteran prosecutor also noted that for the most part, judges are seeing the “same types of cases that they did before. We just removed cash from the equation.”

* WAND | IL lawmakers could pass plan taking guns from domestic abusers facing orders of protection: “Right now, the order of protection process is failing too many survivors and their families,” Rep. Maura Hirschauer (D-Batavia) told WAND News. “It is critically important that we get this bill passed so that judges and law enforcement have clarity to go in there and get guns out of the home in these types of situations.”

* Tribune | Illinois comptroller’s office employee fired over antisemitic comments in online exchange: In some of the posts during the exchange, the employee called the other Instagram user a “ZIONIST PIG” and said “all Zionists will pay.” The employee also wrote that “Hitler should have eradicated all of you.”

* Shaw Local | Former Dixon Mayor Arellano running for state Senate: Li Arellano, who served eight years as Dixon’s mayor, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the race for the 37th Illinois Senate District.
State Sen. Win Stoller, R-Germantown Hills, currently holds the seat.

* Crain’s | Johnson, city’s largest police union nearing contract deal with significant pay raises: The deal, the first major union agreement that would be completed in Johnson’s first term, ensures labor peace with the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, which represents all Chicago Police Department officers below the rank of sergeant. It could serve as a commitment that the new mayor, a former union organizer, plans to settle the city’s outstanding contracts without major labor strife.

* Sun-Times | Man who wounded toddler in road rage shooting gets 4 years in plea deal: Deandre Binion, 27, initially faced nearly 20 felony charges — including attempted murder — in connection with the April 2021 shooting that wounded 22-month-old Kayden Swann in the head. But under an agreement reached with the state’s attorney’s office, all charges, except one count of aggravated discharge of a weapon, were dropped Oct. 13.

* Tribune | President Biden speaks to father of slain Will County 6-year-old following Oval Office address where he described the boy as a ‘proud American’: Biden invoked the child’s death and the serious wounding of his mother during the speech, in which he sought to explain the strategic need to combat terrorism in both Israel by Hamas and in Ukraine orchestrated by Russia.

* ABC Chicago | Bridgeview Islamic school moves to e-learning after ‘threatening hate letter’: It is closing Friday “out of extra caution” after being on soft lockdown earlier this week. In a message to parents, the principal wrote in part, “Rest assured that we have been doing everything in our power to maintain the safety and well-being of all of our students…and we will continue in those efforts.”

* SJ-R | ‘Something in me died following the abuse:’ Two alleging clergy abuse speak out publicly: Stack, speaking at a Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests press conference in front of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, railed against the Springfield Diocese and Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, saying they have to come to grips with the problem more “compassionately and pastorally” and with “a sense of basic human decency.”

* Sun-Times | Collision between deer and animal rescue van jeopardizes dozens of pets’ chance at rescue: The van is now unusable, with officials in the organization fearing it will need to be replaced. But the group had already arranged to make the several-hundred mile trip to Mississippi and Louisiana next week to rescue about 90 cats and dogs.

* Tribune | Metropolitan Brewing, one of Chicago’s oldest craft breweries, files for bankruptcy and may close this winter: Citing tepid retail sales, unsustainable debt and a yearslong rent dispute at its custom-designed taproom and brewery overlooking the Chicago River, Metropolitan Brewing has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Without reworking its debt, including more than $1 million owed in back rent and fees, the pioneering 15-year-old craft brewer said it will not survive the long Chicago winter ahead.