Welcome back, quotes readers! Do you have your Halloween costumes ready? Your trick-or-treating route planned out? Or are you still trying to figure out plans for celebrating spooky season? If so, the Tribune can help, from restaurant and bar specials to local spots for frights and more!
On a less scary note, the Chicago Bears are on a hot streak. The team won their fourth straight game this week, beating the New Orleans Saints 26-14 at Soldier Field — thanks in large part to their run game. The Bears (4-2) take on the Ravens (1-5) on Sunday in Baltimore, in what could be the first game back for Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, who’s been out with a hamstring injury for nearly a month. Will the team keep their winning steak alive? Here’s what the Tribune’s Bears reporters think.
In the latest news from “Operation Midway Blitz,” immigration enforcement operations were carried out throughout the city and suburbs this week. Border Patrol swarmed Little Village and Cicero, clashing with residents and arresting at least seven people, including U.S. citizens, federal agents threw tear gas into the street in Lakeview and conducted raids in Lincoln Park, in Mount Prospect, upset residents interrupted an immigration manhunt and in Evanston, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained two people.
At their monthly meeting Thursday, school board members urged Chicago Public Schools to take greater action to support students unable to attend school due to immigration enforcement fears, including implementing remote learning options. While Mayor Brandon Johnson appeared to support the idea, Gov. JB Pritzker advocated instead for keeping kids in school “where they are safer.” The governor is, however, establishing a new “accountability commission” for tracking and scrutinizing the Trump administration’s immigration tactics.
Also this week, a federal judge in Chicago indefinitely extended her restraining order barring President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Illinois while awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the case.
The son of Republican candidate for governor Darren Bailey, along with Bailey’s daughter-in-law and two grandchildren, were killed in a helicopter crash in Montana. Bailey’s son was piloting the helicopter when the crash occurred, though the cause remains unclear.
In other local news, former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is weighing a possible presidential bid, the Kennedy Expressway rehabilitation project is complete and the Bulls opened their season with a win over the Detroit Pistons.
Plus, if you’re planning to travel downtown this weekend, you may need to find an alternate route. Elevated rail lines through the Loop will be halted from 4 a.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Monday while crews conduct track repairs.
Without further ado, here’s the Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz for Oct. 19 to 25. Missed last week? You can find it here or check out our past editions of Quotes of the Week.