Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Springfield wish list: Digital ad tax and other levies — but not the Bears’ bill • 2026 Indiana primary day election results
The Spin Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | | |
| | | | | A City Council panel pushed through legislation Tuesday to ban sweepstakes gambling terminals that operate in a legal gray area in Chicago. | | | | | Mayor Brandon Johnson will head to Springfield this week with a revenue wish list he says Chicago needs, while the Bears try to clinch a bill to move to Arlington Heights. | | | | | Indiana voters decide their party’s nominees for races at the federal and state levels, as well as in a few local races, during the Indiana primary election. | | | | | Election Day was off to a slow start in Lake and Porter counties, given an uptick in early voting and that it’s not a presidential primary. | | | | | Tickets to visit the Obama Presidential Center in in Chicago’s Jackson Park go on sale at 9 a.m. May 6, ahead of its planned opening to the public on June 19. | | | | | A judge declared Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele not guilty of driving under the influence late Tuesday morning. | | | | | President Donald Trump has renewed his criticism of Pope Leo XIV, potentially complicating a fence-mending visit that Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to make this week to the Vatican. | | | | | A California man accused of trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and attempting to kill President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday on a new charge over claims that he fired a shotgun at a Secret Service officer during the attack. | | | |