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Discover A Darkness Lovely in Galena, where co-owners Robyn Davis and Ted Williams blend metaphysical treasures, handmade art, books, and unique gifts with the town’s haunted history.
From immersive displays to ghost tours and storytelling events, their one-of-a-kind boutique offers an experience that celebrates the beauty and mystery of the night.
The City Council budget committee on Tuesday heard about how the Department of Environment (DOE) is handling the full return of its regulatory and enforcement powers just months after a multi-year transition was completed.
The Chicago Department of Buildings (DOB) on Tuesday answered questions from alderpeople about the impact of a proposed tax hike on the lease of personal property, a new head tax and the number of complaints it receives related to rental housing that it could shift to the housing department under a proposed reform ordinance.
Alderpeople kicked off their annual budget hearings on Monday with the leaders of the city’s finance and budget offices answering questions about some of the most controversial elements of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2027 budget proposal, which was unveiled last week.
The City Council Committee on Budget and Government Operations on Monday will begin departmental hearings as part of the 2027 budget cycle. Over the next two-plus weeks, all city departments and agencies will appear before the committee to detail their spending and operations plans for the next year.
Danielle Carter-Walters, vice president of the conservative activist group Chicago Flips Red, is mounting an effort to make the Chicago mayoral ballot with a promise to bring accountability and potentially serious consequences to what she sees as a corrupt political establishment.
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday unveiled a $17.6 billion spending plan for 2027, a budget in which he proposes to close an estimated $882.4 million deficit with a slew of new and increased taxes on corporations, including a second attempt at a head tax that was defeated by the City Council last year.
The Illinois Office of the Executive Inspector General (OEIG) made headlines on Monday when the Chicago Tribune reported on its investigation that determined the top human resources official at a state agency had improperly approved $1.4 million in extra pay for employees, including almost $52,000 for herself.
It’s an eye-watering sum and the most significant example of misconduct in a slate of reports made public last week by the OEIG, which investigates fraud, waste and abuses in state government.
But the bulk of the newly released investigations pertain to state employees who the office says fraudulently obtained federal loans designed to keep small businesses afloat during the pandemic. More than five years after the loan program stopped accepting applications, the OEIG is still closing out fraud cases, showcasing how extensive abuses of the program were.
With barely a week to go before the election, Gov. JB Pritzker rallied with the United Auto Workers on the South Side of Chicago on Sunday, where he re-upped a major union endorsement and hinted at the closing message of his campaign.
Full-time fall enrollment at Illinois’ public universities has hit its highest level in more than a decade, according to a preliminary report released Friday by the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
The report shows that 190,114 students were enrolled in one of the state’s 12 public universities as of the 10th day of the fall semester, a 287-student increase from last year. That total is headcount enrollment, meaning it accounts for both full-time and part-time students.
The Chicagoland Apartment Association, a nonprofit advocacy and development group for apartment owners and managers, announced Thursday that it has rebranded as the Illinois Apartment Association in a push to broaden its reach across the state.
In a debate for Illinois’ open U.S. Senate seat Tuesday, state politics frequently crept into a showdown between Democratic Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton and former Illinois Republican Party chair Don Tracy, who sparred over whether the fault for many of state’s issues lies with Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration or President Donald Trump.
Stratton and Tracy covered a wide range of key issues in their lone general election debate In WTTW’s Chicago studio, from affordability to immigration to healthcare. But while questions centered around how they would shape federal policy, both candidates leaned into Stratton’s background as lieutenant governor and in the state house.
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