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    Chief Larry Snelling answers questions during a committee meeting Friday. [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line]

    After spending three hours asking him about his stance on officer wellness, recruitment and the federal consent decree, members of a key City Council committee on Friday voted unanimously to send the appointment of Larry Snelling as the next superintendent of the Chicago Police Department to the full council for approval Wednesday. 

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    Comm. Dennis Deer (D-2) speaks during a Cook County Board of Commissioners meeting on Sept. 21, 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line.]

    Cook County commissioners introduced a measure to hold a hearing on Cook County Health’s use of staffing agencies, a measure to hold a hearing on missing and murdered Black women and a measure calling for opioid settlement funds to be used to fight trauma and substance abuse Thursday.

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    Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle presides over a meeting of the Cook County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 21, 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

    The Cook County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to accept grant funding to assist asylum seekers, but Board President Toni Preckwinkle noted it was a one-time allotment as the county continues to spend millions per month to care for new arrivals.

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    A rendering of the building proposed for 200-208, 222 N. Halsted St. in the 27th Ward. [City of Chicago presentation]

    A proposal to build a 36-story building with more than 400 residential units near the intersection of Lake and Halsted streets on the Near West Side will now go through the City Council approval process after the Chicago Plan Commission gave the development its stamp of approval Thursday.

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    Mayor Brandon Johnson (left) and Larry Snelling, chief of the Chicago Police Department's Bureau of Counterterrorism, speak during a news conference in August [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line]

    Larry Snelling, chief of the Chicago Police Department's Bureau of Counterterrorism, will undergo likely rounds of questions from alderpersons Friday as a City Council committee takes a first vote on whether to confirm him as Mayor Brandon Johnson’s pick to lead the Chicago Police Department.

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    The above shows an example of GardaWorld’s soft-sided shelters. [City of Chicago contract document] 

    With Chicago's inking of a nearly $29.4 million contract with GardaWorld last week to provide temporary housing for migrants, city officials are planning to move migrants currently housed at police district stations and O’Hare and Midway airports into the potential new shelters before temperatures drop. 

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    Proponents of eliminating the tipped minimum wage held a news conference Wednesday. [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line]

    With approval from a key committee Wednesday, the City Council will vote early next month on a proposal to phase out the so-called subminimum wage for tipped workers in Chicago over the next five years.

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    Cook County lawmakers hold a meeting in March 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

    Following two hours of discussion and despite some concerns, most county commissioners Wednesday voted to authorize a program that provides assistance to residents with past-due water bills and helps municipal water utilities reduce their own debts to their suppliers.

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    Supports of the state’s immigrant healthcare program hold a rally at Federal Plaza in Chicago on Friday that was organized by Healthy Illinois. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line] 

    Hundreds of supporters and some state lawmakers organized by Healthy Illinois gathered at Federal Plaza on Friday to call on Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration to lift limits on the state's healthcare program for undocumented immigrants and back policies that move the state toward universal healthcare.  

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    The Cook County Jail 

    Illinois’ most sweeping criminal justice system reform in decades has largely proceeded smoothly around the state with few reports of major problems implementing the system, though critics remain and attorneys are adjusting to the new process.  

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    Sen. Sue Rezin (R-Morris), center, speaks during the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. [Blue Room Stream] 

    It’s not uncommon to find teenagers, or even younger kids, spending hours scrolling through social media sites and shaping their world view based on the content they see on the sites. Sen. Sue Rezin (R-Morris) is worried about a lack of safeguards for minors on the sites and how the content kids are consuming is driving them into deep mental health crises.  

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    From left to right, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Gov. JB Pritzker, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hold a discussion on abortion at a Clinton Foundation event in New York on Tuesday. [Clinton Foundation] 

    Gov. JB Pritzker reaffirmed his position as a leading Democrat on abortion policy on Tuesday when he joined former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to strategize about how Democrats should use abortion as a top election issue in 2024.  

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    A report released Tuesday shows Illinois continues to add jobs in the clean energy sector since the passing of the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA). And a national organization will run TV ads in Illinois pressuring Illinois Republican members of Congress to support funding for Ukraine.  

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    House Speaker Chris Welch (D-Hillside) and other lawmakers and advocates speak at a news conference outside the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago on Monday. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line] 

    After more than two years of waiting, Illinois became the first state on Monday to end cash bail as a condition of pretrial release as a law loathed by opponents and praised by supporters took effect.  

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    Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton speaks at a conference in Japan last week. [Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton/Facebook] 

    Illinois leaders say now is the time for businesses to put roots down in Illinois as the state enjoys more fiscal stability and recently passed policies that are designed to attract innovative green technology businesses to the state.  

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