Meetings & Agendas- Chicago
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The City Council Committee on Public Safety will meet Wednesday to discuss public safety and emergency preparedness plans for the coming summer, and the council’s pedestrian and traffic safety committee will hold a subject matter hearing on lowering the city’s default speed limit, a discussion postponed a few weeks ago.
The public safety committee will meet at noon in council chambers following the pedestrian and traffic safety committee meeting.
State lawmakers are proposing to consolidate the region’s four mass transit agencies into a single entity.
The push comes after the Civic Federation released a report last week that calls on the state to tie future financial support for the northeastern Illinois transit agencies — the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra and Pace — to reforms of the agencies’ structure and governance, specifically their centralization into one agency.
Members of the Cook County Democratic party voted on Friday to select Cook County Comm. Monica Gordon (D-5) to be the party’s nominee for Cook County Clerk election in November after a single round of voting at IBEW Local 134.
She will face a Republican candidate to be determined by the Cook County Republican Party.
Current Chief Deputy Clerk Cedric Giles will fill the position through December.
“Public funding of healthcare coverage for the uninsured pays for itself in a panoply of benefits that reach well beyond the individuals who receive such assistance.”
So says the “The Benefits of Health Coverage for Immigrants in Illinois” report conducted by the Great Cities Institute (CGI) at the University of Illinois Chicago, commissioned by the Healthy Illinois Campaign and released Friday at a symposium at the North Lawndale Employment Network offices.
A Northwest Side alderperson is asking the city to take advantage of emerging artificial intelligence (AI) advancements to improve departmental productivity and make services more efficient but also to adopt AI systems in a thoughtful and responsible manner.
The interim chair of the City Council zoning committee re-introduced legislation last week to allow attic and basement conversions and coach houses citywide.
A Lincoln Park alderperson is pushing legislation that would impose fines for those who print and distribute hateful and bigoted literature in response to what he said is “an alarming increase” of hate flyering instances in his ward.
The City Council gathered for the second time in a week on Friday to approve funding requests deferred at Wednesday’s meeting, including new spending for migrant care and the mayor’s $1.25 billion bond authorization to fund housing, economic and cultural development programs citywide.
With the state’s major climate law now almost three years old, Illinois environmental leaders are setting their sights on new targets to achieve the spirit of the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) by pushing new policies to limit natural gas use in buildings and get more drivers behind the wheel of electric vehicles.
In a little more than 100 days, all eyes of American politics will be on Chicago as the city hosts the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) to nominate President Joe Biden for a second term.
It’s not new for Illinois Democrats to be in the host seat given Chicago’s rich history of political conventions, but it comes at a time when support for Biden struggles to rise, and many Americans protest the president’s decisions in the Middle East.
It’s been more than half a year since Illinois became the first state to entirely abolish cash bail and data on the success of the law is slowly trickling in. While more data is needed to make a better assessment of how the law has changed Illinois’ legal system, supporters of the law aren’t seeing any red flags so far.
Legislators want to make mental health professionals that respond with police officers to calls eligible for line of duty benefits in recognition of their work and dangers they too face on calls.
The State Board of Education is pushing for Illinois legislators to pass legislation to boost training materials for Illinois teachers to learn more about climate change to teach the subject to their students.
The Chicago Bears want $2.4 billion from the state of Illinois to build a new stadium and reimagine the current Chicago museum campus and Soldier Field property. But the plan was immediately met with little interest from Springfield’s top policy makers.
The Illinois Senate approved a bill last week that is designed to spark interest from the next group of young journalists and keep newsroom ownership local, though the bill was watered down from a more aggressive version that would have created tax credits for newsrooms.
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