Caption contest!
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025 - Posted by Isabel Miller
* Yesterday, Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez got into it with Gov. JB Pritzker and Ald. Michael Rodriguez at a Veterans Day event in Little Village. The Tribune…
[Southwest Side Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez] allied with Mayor Brandon Johnson shouted questions at Gov. JB Pritzker in Little Village Tuesday over the governor’s opposition to Johnson’s proposed corporate head tax. […]
Sigcho-Lopez confronted Pritzker in front of an array of reporters, photographers and television cameras Tuesday. He told the governor the need for more taxes on the rich is tied to Trump’s immigration policies that have hit the Latino Southwest Side particularly hard. […]
Pritzker responded by referring to his unsuccessful efforts to amend the state constitution to create a graduated income tax. The 2020 referendum question Pritzker backed received support from 46.7% of voters, short of the 60% threshold. […]
Sigcho-Lopez moments later approached Rodriguez, a fellow City Council Progressive Caucus member known as a close ally of labor unions. “Who are you protecting?” Sigcho-Lopez appeared to ask.
“Don’t get in my face, dude,” an animated Rodriguez shouted back.
* Tribune staff photojournalist Brian Cassella captured the moment between Rodriguez and Sigcho-Lopez. From Cassella’s Instagram…
There’s some profanity in both of these videos of the incident (here and here), so maybe don’t play them on speaker.
Caption?
- Bud Grant - Wednesday, Nov 12, 25 @ 1:15 pm:
This ad paid for by MAGA.
- Think again - Wednesday, Nov 12, 25 @ 1:18 pm:
Hey, hey, you, you get out of my ward
- Oklahoma - Wednesday, Nov 12, 25 @ 1:22 pm:
Kind of representative of the whole Brandon Johnson crew’s term so far to yell at the main guy that agrees with you rather than try to convince the 3 million people that voted against it.
- JS Mill - Wednesday, Nov 12, 25 @ 1:26 pm:
I strongly object!
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Nov 12, 25 @ 1:29 pm:
“No, I’m not crazy. I bought an extra-small stocking cap by mistake and it makes my eyes bug out.”
- Marty McSorley - Wednesday, Nov 12, 25 @ 1:33 pm:
Has anybody ever seen Pat Devaney and Alderman Rodriguez in the same room? The resemblance is uncanny.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Nov 12, 25 @ 1:33 pm:
Clash of the Aldernerds.
- Plzn Square - Wednesday, Nov 12, 25 @ 1:40 pm:
Mikey KO Rodriguez against Ambassador pillow hands Sigcho.
I’m taking Rodrigo for the knockout unde minute.
- Amalia - Wednesday, Nov 12, 25 @ 1:44 pm:
Congressional Campaign Begins in Anger
- Benjamin - Wednesday, Nov 12, 25 @ 1:59 pm:
Rodriguez: *gasp* “I must…paint you” [forbidden punctuation]
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Nov 12, 25 @ 1:59 pm:
“Don’t get in my face, dude.”
“Oh yeah? Les Nessman called. He wants his face back.”
- Rahm's Parking Meter - Wednesday, Nov 12, 25 @ 2:13 pm:
Rock ‘em Sock ‘em alders
- NeveroddoreveN - Wednesday, Nov 12, 25 @ 2:19 pm:
“You shut your mouth when talking to me!”
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Nov 12, 25 @ 2:52 pm:
“The friend of my enemy is my enemy”
-Byron Sigcho-Lopez.