I can’t believe it’s been more than a year — 15 months — since Chicago became my home. A whirlwind 2023 brought city elections and runoffs that rang in a new mayor, the end of cash bail and an assault weapons ban in Illinois, the arrival of busloads of Venezuelan migrants, NASCAR’s first street race, Swift mania and four big corruption trials.
The Sun-Times celebrated its 75th anniversary. La Voz, a bilingual section serving Chicago’s Latino communities, turned 3.
