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    Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a City Council meeting on April 15, 2026. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

    The mayor signed an executive order Wednesday to establish new ethics and anti-corruption standards for companies that seek to hold city contracts.

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    Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a City Council meeting on March 12, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

    Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday announced a plan to close a shortfall in the 2026 budget without resorting to layoffs.

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    Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas appears at a budget hearing in October 2023. [Livestream]

    An analysis from the Cook County Treasurer’s Office showed that homeowners faced more of an increase in their property taxes this year compared to businesses and that the entire property tax levy increased beyond the rate of inflation.

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    A rendering of McLaurin Development Partners' development in Bronzeville. [Department of Planning and Development]

    The Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday approved plans for the redevelopment of the site of the closed Ford City Mall, a mixed-use development near Rate Field in Bronzeville and a condominium building in the West Loop.

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    Chicago City Hall is pictured. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

    Following a change to how the city collects taxes on alcoholic beverages purchased at liquor stores and other packaged goods licensees, Chicago reported a more than $4 million drop in the amount of liquor tax revenue remitted by businesses through July.

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    A rendering of McLaurin Development Partners' development in Bronzeville. [Department of Planning and Development]

    The Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday will consider plans for the redevelopment of the site of the shuttered Ford City Mall, a mixed-use development near Rate Field and a downtown condominium building. 

    The plan commission will meet at 10 a.m. in Room 1103 at City Hall. 

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    The seal of the Forest Preserves of Cook County.

    The Forest Preserves of Cook County said its facilities and sites plan to remain “open and operational” even amid a union strike.

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    Mayor Brandon Johnson attends a rally in Edgewater in support of the Protecting Renters Ordinance on Aug. 16, 2026. [Livestream]

    The mayor and allies held a lakefront rally on the Far North Side Sunday to urge support for a proposed overhaul of the city’s rental housing code that has sat in the City Council’s housing committee for almost two months.

    The rally kicked off an expected canvassing effort to build grassroots support for the housing proposal.

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    Illinois will receive more than $700 million as part of a multistate settlement with Meta over allegations the company designed their platforms to be addictive to children. 

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    Electric scooters in Seattle. [Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Seattle (WA, USA), Pike Street, E-Scooter -- 2022 -- 1460” / CC BY-SA 4.0For print products: Dietmar Rabich / https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_(WA,_USA),_Pike_Street,_E-Scooter_--_2022_--_1460.jpg / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/]

    Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill Wednesday regulating electric micromobility devices such as electric scooters. 

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    The final meeting of the Regional Transportation Authority’s (RTA) board of directors highlighted some of the areas of improvement for Chicago-area transit the new governing authority will look to tackle — starting with the 2027 budget. 

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    The Illinois State Board of Elections (SBE) certified the 2026 midterm ballot Friday, solidifying the candidates voters will choose from in November. 

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    Gov. JB Pritzker announced his appointments to the new Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) board Friday. 

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    Illinois Republicans went on the offense Thursday at the Illinois State Fair, arguing they can win several statewide offices and upend Democratic control over state politics. 

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    Democrats from across the state gathered in Springfield Wednesday to tout party accomplishments and criticize the Trump administration, with little mention of the Illinois Republican Party. 

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