Former President Donald Trump is heading back to the White House and with more support in Chicago and Illinois than ever before — leaving deflated Democrats to wonder where their party went wrong.

Defeated Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden meanwhile are vowing a cooperative and peaceful transition.

But Trump’s remarkable comeback has many now asking questions about what his second term will mean for Chicago and the rest of Illinois.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is promising resistance, telling reporters: “If you come for my people, you have to come through me.”

And change is for certain coming to Chicago Public Schools as voters for the first time elected members of the school board.

Meanwhile members of the City Council move to quickly pull the plug on the mayor’s plan to hike property taxes.

And an Illinois judge called issued a permanent injunction against the state’s so-called assault weapons ban, calling it an “unconstitutional affront to the Second Amendment.”

Guests:

Sasha-Ann Simons, WBEZ | @SashaAnnSimons

A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune | @ad_quig

Nick Blumberg, WTTW News | @ndblumberg

Heather Cherone, WTTW News | @HeatherCherone

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