Ald. Debra Silverstein, the City Council’s only Jewish member, said two days after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Kennedy Bartley tweeted, “From the river to the sea. Palestine will be free.

In podcast interviews in 2021 and earlier this year, Johnson aide and former executive director of United Working Families Kennedy Bartley talked openly about defunding or the "abolition" of police.

Kennedy Bartley, a deputy in the Chicago mayor’s office, posted on X two days after the massacre last year: “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free.

Several aldermen are calling for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to fire one of his top aides. Kennedy Bartley is accused of using antisemitic language on social media and making inflammatory ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s inner circle worked with outside lobbyists who were not registered to lobby on behalf of the city in the Illinois General Assembly, a practice his office defended after ...