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Chicago pols approve $23M property tax hike amid pushback
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s new $16.7 billion budget proposal is facing across-the-board resistance, especially when it comes to an expected property tax increase.
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City Council members push for eliminating Lightfoot’s vaccine mandate
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is facing a challenge over the city’s vaccine mandate for employees.
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Amazon hub lockers will be removed from Brand Park after outcry
Amazon has begun the process of removing company lockers stationed in city parks across the state after complaints started to trickle in from all walks.
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Redistricting panel told Beverly 'means family, community, the diversity of families joining together'
While the Chicago City Council will begin the ward remapping process on Monday, the Chicago Advisory Redistricting Commission began collecting public input on redistricting a full month ago.
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Herlihy tells redistricting panel 'Put the wards in their original locations'
Chicago ward remapping by the Chicago City Council begins on Monday, but the Chicago Advisory Redistricting Commission has been proactive in getting insights from the community.
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Ruiz tells redistricting panel his map 'reflects the 25th Ward’s historical boundaries'
City Council is coming together on July 26 to start the task of crafting new ward boundaries that will set the stage for Chicago politics for the next ten years.
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Jones tells Advisory Redistricting Commission that closed schools 'need to be repurposed based on the needs of the community'
Valerie Jones is desperate for a new community in the place she calls home.
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Alderman Carrie Austin, chief of staff face bribery charges
Chicago Ald. Carrie Austin faces formal bribery charges as part of an ongoing federal corruption probe where she is accused of netting extensive home repairs in exchange for city funding on a $50 million project being developed in her ward.
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Sigcho-Lopez: 'A lot of work needs to be done' on redistricting
Chicago Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez is stressing the need for lawmakers to get things right when redrawing the state's voter maps.
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Chicago aldermen hold subcommittee on Reparations Meeting
The City Council recently held The Inaugural Subcommittee on Reparations Meeting, with Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th Ward) among those insisting the moment had been a long time coming.
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Chicago mayor's allocation of CARES Act funding excludes additional spending for police department
The Chicago City Council approved the outline of how it will spend the $1.13 billion allotted to it through the CARES Act.
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City Council passes eviction ordinance for struggling renters
Tenants in Chicago who are not able to pay their rent because of COVID-19 may get some relief as the Chicago City Council's Housing Committee pushed through a policy that would protect them from eviction, according to CBS Chicago.
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Chicago FOP joins aldermen in urging city council to reject payout in Godinez case
The Chicago City Council on December 18 deferred a final vote on a proposed $1.2 million payout to the family of Heriberto Godinez, who died in 2015 while being arrested for burglary on the Southwest side.
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Dr. Willie Wilson’s reparations proposal faces cost, other obstacles in City Council
Chicago businessman Dr. Willie Wilson faces a long, tough list of obstacles to his proposed city ordinance awarding reparations to Chicagoans who descended from slaves.
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Chicago City Council will meet May 20
Chicago City Council will meet at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 20.
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Stephanie Coleman ousts Ald. Toni Foulkes in the 16th Ward
With 33 of 36 precincts reporting, Coleman had 66.70 percent of the vote (3,305) to Foulkes' 33.3 percent (1,650), according to the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
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City Council will livestream committee hearings
The Chicago City Council has approved a rule mandating that all committee hearings be aired or broadcast over the Internet beginning later this year.
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Activists asking Aldermen to discriminate, Catholic leader claims
A letter from a group with "Catholic" in its title criticizing Chicago City Council for approving a multi-million-dollar subsidy to Illinois' largest Catholic health care system is asking city aldermen to discriminate, claims the vice president of a faith-based advocacy group.
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Pro-choice group trying to 'astroturf' aldermen, advocate says
A letter from a group with "Catholic" in its title that criticized a split Chicago City Council approval of a multimillion-dollar subsidy to Illinois' largest Catholic health care system should not be trusted, the president of a conservative, nonprofit advocacy group said.
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Rahm and Pritzker backed winners and losers on Election Day
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appear to have gotten mixed results for the nearly $1 million they combined to invest in city council races across the city on Election Day.