Mayor Brandon Johnson will travel to Washington, D.C., next week to defend Chicago’s status as a sanctuary city. “We’re going to remain a welcoming city and hold to our values,” Johnson said. Set to testify before a Congressional Committee in the nation’s capital,

But the mayor was forced to cast another tie-breaking vote to avoid having the decision on his bond issue put off even longer.

More than a week before Mayor Brandon Johnson is expected testify on Capitol Hill before the House Oversight Committee on the city’s so-called sanctuary laws, Johnson told reporters that he is prepared to defend the city’s “values.

An American Airlines flight arriving at Ronald Reagan National Airport was forced to abort its landing to avoid another aircraft Tuesday, officials said, less than a month after a midair collision killed 67 people near the same airport and roughly 90 minutes before a close call between a passenger plane and a private jet in Chicago.