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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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