{"id":427254,"date":"2025-12-05T20:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427254\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T20:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:41:12","slug":"wbezs-weekly-news-recap-dec-5-2025-city-budget-battle-record-breaking-november-snow-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427254\/","title":{"rendered":"WBEZ\u2019s Weekly News Recap, Dec. 5, 2025: City budget battle, record-breaking November snow and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new independent candidate enters the race for retiring Congressman Chuy Garcia\u2019s seat. Gov. Pritzker signs legislation allowing Illinois to set its own vaccination guidelines. And Chicago Mayor Johnson is in a budget battle with alders.<\/p>\n<p>In the Loop breaks down those stories and more in the Weekly News Recap.<\/p>\n<p><b>GUESTS: <\/b>Carrie Shepherd, Axios Chicago reporter<\/p>\n<p>Heather Cherone, WTTW Chicago politics reporter<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Armentrout, Chicago Sun-Times politics reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new independent candidate enters the race for retiring Congressman Chuy Garcia\u2019s seat. Gov. Pritzker signs legislation allowing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":427255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-427254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115668902745620934","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}