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Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling announced his retirement last week after almost three years as the city’s top cop, and a nationwide search to replace him led by a civilian policy oversight board will soon begin.
The City Council’s ethics committee on Tuesday is set to consider a proposal that would prohibit city officials and employees from making money from prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket through the use of confidential and proprietary information.
The Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight will meet at 11 a.m. in Room 201A at City Hall.
The city has selected Bank of America to serve as its intermediary to help sell hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid traffic ticket debt to private buyers as part of a strategy that is aimed at contributing about $90 million toward closing the city’s 2026 budget gap.
Cook County Board of Review Comm. George Cardenas (D-1) believes his previous tenure in city government is a key reason why he would be the best person to win the city mayor’s race next February.
The City Council’s housing committee on Monday heard from all sides of the debate around a major piece of legislation from Mayor Brandon Johnson that would add new protections and financial relief for renters facing lease non-renewals and increase transparency around corporate apartment building ownership.
It would also seek to improve the city’s ability to hold bad landlords accountable and increase housing stability for tenants.
“For too long, Chicago has lagged behind other cities. Past administrations have kept organizers at arm’s length while declining to implement critical protections that have yielded results across the country,” Johnson said at a Monday morning press conference in Daley Plaza announcing the introduction of the legislation. “Needless to say, relief is long overdue.”
U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) officially jumped into the Chicago mayor’s race Saturday, becoming the latest current elected official to seek to occupy the fifth floor.
Gov. JB Pritzker said the Illinois Attorney General’s office will lead the state’s effort to defend bans on assault weapons as the U.S. Supreme Court agrees to take up a challenge to a Cook County law.
July 1 marks the beginning of Illinois’ fiscal year and the effective date of several new state laws, including permanent cocktails-to-go, artificial intelligence (AI) protections for minors and an increase in the age in which seniors are required to renew their driver’s licenses.
Pritzker takes executive action to pause data center tax incentives
Two current board members among five candidates seeking to become first elected CPS Board president
Illinois revenues up nearly $2 billion as state enters final month of fiscal year
What makes up the mayor’s sweeping Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance modernization
Chicago area transit oversight board approves sales tax hike as NITA law goes into effect
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