Happy Friday, Chicago.

A woman was set ablaze on the Blue Line Tuesday night in the Loop and the man accused of committing the crime has been charged with committing a terrorist attack against a mass transportation system in the U.S.“This is an isolated incident, and I don’t see this as some sort of trend,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said in response.

The Tribune Editorial Board disagrees with the mayor’s sentiment. “What happened Tuesday, while extreme, cannot simply be treated as a single act. It’s part of a pattern of violence, often random in nature, playing out on trains, buses and transit stops,” the board writes in its first piece today.

Also, in our section today David Greising writes that Chicago cannot afford to shut down its government over a budget impasse. His column takes a closer look at ideas from the mayor’s budget task force and a recent EY report to see if there are any feasible solutions. Ald. William Hall is also in our section today calling for an audit of city contractors after it was discovered that some of them worked with ICE and Border Patrol.

Thanksgiving is next week. We’d like to hear from you about what is making you feel thankful this year. Submit a letter of no more than 400 words at the link below or email us at letters@chicagotribune.com by Sunday.

Thanks for reading, have a good weekend.

— Grace Miserocchi, opinion editor

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