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The week started on a sour note for Chicago Bears fans. After the Bears came back from the brink of defeat with 25 seconds left In the game, Commanders took possession, using two plays to sneak into miracle range. Then, with two seconds left on the game clock on the final play, quarterback Jayden Daniels threw a Hail Mary 52 meters to beat the Bears 18-15.
On Wednesday, Mayor Brandon Johnson shared his A budget plan of 17.3 billion dollars for next year, proposing Chicago’s largest property tax hike in nearly a decade to help balance a proposed Shortfall of $982.4 million in 2025. The proposed spending plan has been criticized among police experts, immigrant rights activists And aldermen even.
And it’s been another eventful week for the Chicago Board of Education. After under fire from critics by Governor JB Pritzker, Mayor Johnson and dozens of aldermen for social media posts deemed anti-Semitic, misogynistic and conspiratorial, the mayor’s hand-picked school board president resigned on Thursday – just a week after taking the oath.
Well, now that you know the headlines, let’s get to the fun stuff. Here’s the final installment of the Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz — this time with excerpts and statements from the week spanning Oct. 27 to Nov. 2.
Did you miss last week? You can find it here or view our previous editions of Quotes of the week.
