Chicago is a big news city, and 2023 was no exception. One news story — and editorial — after another tackled the city’s high-profile political corruption trials, municipal elections, public transit problems, tragic deaths of four firefighters, end of cash bail ... the list goes on.
But the biggest story of the year, in our view — and it’s shaping up to perhaps be the biggest of 2024, too — was the influx of thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers sent here mostly by Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. With each new busload of migrants, it became clearer that Abbott’s mission in life is to play political games with the lives of desperate people, rather than work toward a humane solution that would benefit Texas as well as the cities he’s sought to embarrass.
