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    The Cook County Board of Commissioners passed an ordinance Thursday to prevent private companies with county contracts from sharing residents’ personal data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or other third parties.

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    Budget Chair Jason Ervin (28) attends a City Council meeting on April 17, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

    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.

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    The City Council Committee on Budget and Government Operations met for a contentious subject matter hearing Friday morning with the Office of Budget and Management (OBM) and Ernst and Young (EY) regarding its report on financial reform recommendations.

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    Danielle Carter-Walters is pictured. [Campaign social media]

    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. 

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    Mayor Brandon Johnson delivers his 2027 budget address on Oct. 21, 2026. [Livestream]

    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.

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

    Mayor Brandon Johnson is proposing to dissolve the Chicago Community Catalyst Fund and use the majority of it to help plug the city’s 2027 budget gap, with the remaining portion planned to be repurposed as a new local financial assistance vehicle.

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    The Committee on Contracting Oversight and Equity meets on Oct. 20, 2026. [Livestream]

    The City Council Committee on Contracting Oversight and Equity on Tuesday passed a measure calling for the resolution to a long-open procurement for a new vendor for technology to quickly facilitate the dispatch of emergency services to gun violence victims following a shooting.  

    The committee was unable to ask questions of the procurement department, which refused to send any representation to the meeting. 

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    From top left across, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, lobbyist John Kelly, Chicago Housing Authority Board Comm. Matt Brewer, businessman Willie Wilson and U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) are pictured.

    Five of the dozen-plus candidates for Chicago mayor filed their nominating petitions with the Chicago Board of Elections Monday morning. Mayor Brandon Johnson, who announced his reelection bid a month ago, was not one of them.

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    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.

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    A video gaming terminal. (Don Vincent/The Daily Line)

    The Illinois Gaming Board Thursday approved a rule that would eliminate the use of cash at video gaming terminals as it moves forward with an expansion of its self-exclusion program.

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    A 2025 report from the Illinois Economic Policy Institute found that the state has a shortage of 142,000 homes. (Don Vincent/The Daily Line)

    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.

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    Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Juliana Stratton (left) and Republican nominee Don Tracy at a debate hosted by WTTW Tuesday night. (WTTW)

    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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    The Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE) met Tuesday to review a slew of settlement offers and appeals made by campaigns across the state in civil penalties cases for delinquent campaign disclosure reporting.

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    The new Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) Board of Directors held its second-ever meeting Oct. 15, where it approved new federal funding for the service boards under it and discussed its plans for improved safety on public transit.

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    The  Edged data center on Bilter Road in Aurora (Edged)

    As the Illinois General Assembly’s fall veto session approaches, lawmakers and data center advocates are weighing the impacts posed by a bill that would place restrictions on data centers.

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