Good afternoon! Big shoutout to readers Brenda and Logan, who are expecting their first baby. And to WBEZ listeners Sarah Chang, Nirali Chauhan and Martin Sorge, who are all competing on The Great American Baking Show. Here’s what you need to know today.

1. Again, what’s the long-term plan for migrants arriving in Chicago?

I ask because it seems like officials have publicly discussed what they don’t want to do more than laying out what specific steps should be taken as the city expects another wave of migrants.

Chicago is one of several Democratic strongholds receiving an influx of migrants from border states, often with little notice.

My colleague Elvia Malagón reports a plan to transform a shuttered high school in the South Shore neighborhood has blindsided residents, who have long pushed to be included in discussions about the building’s future.

The area’s City Council member, Ald. Michelle Harris, says she’s concerned about the funding, safety and “humanity” of the plan. [Chicago Sun-Times]

That “humanity” part sticks out, partly because my colleagues at the Chicago Sun-Times reported this week that migrants in makeshift shelters at police stations have been sleeping and eating on floors. [Chicago Sun-Times]

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson said his team has something in the works but didn’t get into the details.

“What I favor, and what we will do day one, is to make sure that there is a real effort to coordinate our resources at the federal, state, county and city level,” Johnson said. “We are already in the process of developing that infrastructure.” [WTTW]

2. A politically thorny issue awaiting Chicago’s next police superintendent

The next police superintendent needs to make the “hard decision” to stop assigning about the same number of officers in each police district, says former Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck.

“In cities that don’t have the luxury of 13,000 police officers, you can’t have equal staffing. You have to staff based on need,” Beck said this week at a police reform forum at Malcolm X College.

“A staffing study needs to be completed, then he needs to look at and make hard decisions. Because some districts are going to lose cops, some districts are going to get more cops.”

Beck, who temporarily led the Chicago Police Department before Mayor Lori Lightfoot appointed David Brown, also said the department needs to end merit promotions that have created “a patronage system.” And he advocated for moving officers from specialized, city-wide teams to staff districts. [Chicago Sun-Times]

3. A downstate Illinois city moves to restrict abortion rights despite the legal risks

Officials in Danville this week moved to ban the mailing or shipping of abortion pills, but it’s unclear how those restrictions would be enforced, reports The Associated Press.

Illinois has several protections in place for abortion rights. And the state’s attorney general warned city officials the ban violates state law and risked “considerable legal liability and expenses.”

The ban picked up momentum after reports an Indiana clinic planned to open a facility in the city, which is near the state’s border.

Danville’s ban would only go into effect when the city “obtains a declaratory judgment from a court that it may enact and enforce.” But the city’s corporation counsel said that may not shield the city from legal action. [AP]

4. Illinois lawmakers push back on book bans

A bill approved by Democratic lawmakers this week would require libraries to adopt an anti-book banning policy if they want state funding.

The legislation, which Gov. JB Pritzker has vowed to sign, comes as libraries have become a battleground in the nation’s culture wars, with attempts to ban books setting a new record last year.

“Our nation’s libraries have been under attack for too long — they are bastions of knowledge and proliferate the spread of ideas,” said Chicago-area Sen. Laura Murphy, a Democrat and one of the bill’s sponsors.

Libraries can craft their own anti-book banning policies or adopt the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights, which states “materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation,” and “should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.” [AP]

5. El Niño is coming

Sorry, I can’t read El Niño without thinking of this.

On a more serious note, the Chicago area and much of the nation could see new weather extremes with the arrival of El Niño, a global climate pattern that usually means warmer than normal temperatures.

The shift would mark the end of La Niña, a cooler pattern that has been around for several years now.

“We just had the eight warmest years on record, even though we had a cooling La Niña for the past three years,” said Petteri Taalas, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization. [NPR]

Here’s what else is happening

• Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right group have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy. [NPR]
• President Joe Biden and congressional leaders may have just six working days to raise the debt ceiling or risk 8 million jobs being wiped out. [Washington Post]
• Google is sidelining passwords for passkeys. [AP]
• The Chicago Park District hopes to have enough lifeguards this summer at neighborhood swimming pools. [Block Club Chicago]

Oh, and one more thing …

Not sure who is writing the headlines over at Block Club Chicago, but they are on fire this week.

Today’s nugget of gold is “Haters Gonna Hate: Taylor Swift Songs Banned By DJs At Chinatown Cocktail Bar.”

And you should read the story because it’s hilarious. Long story short, a regular at Best Bar didn’t want Taylor Swift songs played during his 30th birthday celebration. And the owners liked the idea so much that they kept it.

“There really is too much good music out there to focus on Taylor Swift,” said bar co-owner Chris Cinka. “We try to stay away from the mainstream stuff.” [Block Club Chicago]

Tell me something good …

It doesn’t feel like summer today, but we’re now in the summer movie season. My colleague Richard Roeper recently wrote about the movies he’s looking forward to seeing this summer.

But I’d like to know: What was your favorite summer movie?

Dee writes:

“Field of Dreams is a perfect summer movie. It reminds me of when my kids were young, we rented it and watched it one summer night soon after it was on video. It was perfect. Both my son and daughter were in little league at the time.”

And Matt writes:

“1983 — Return of the Jedi was released and our school was literally a ghost town, because so many students skipped their 7th and 8th period classes to go see the film. Yes, me included.”

Feel free to email or tweet me, and your response might be shared in the newsletter this week.