Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday blamed his office’s handling of harassment complaints against his former communications director on what he described as a flawed disciplinary process he inherited at City Hall.

A growing chorus of Chicago Public Schools principals reiterated their support for CEO Pedro Martinez on Monday, as the ongoing power struggle over the country’s fourth-largest school district showed no signs of abating as the first half of the school year winds down.

Gov. JB Pritzker has appointed Teresa Ramos as the first head of the newly created Illinois Department of Early Childhood.

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke pledged to get “seismic things done” Monday morning as she took her oath of office in front of a bipartisan crowd, announcing a strict detention-seeking policy for some gun crimes and calling out what she said were “war zone numbers” of people shot in Chicago.

Quoting Greek philosophers and pledging to “drag the office into the modern age,” Mariyana Spyropoulos was ceremonially sworn into her new role as Cook County’s Circuit Court clerk on Monday.

Samantha Steele did not address the incident during the meeting, only congratulating fellow commissioner Larry Rogers on his re-election.

An objection to the candidate petitions of Jim Dodge, hoping to run against Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau, will be heard next week.

Already reeling from their November defeats, Democrats now are grappling with President Joe Biden’s pardoning of his son for federal crimes, with some calling the move misguided and unwise.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Donald Trump that Americans would also suffer if the president-elect follows through on a plan to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian products, a Canadian minister who attended their recent dinner said Monday.