Meetings & Agendas- Chicago
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Raoul Bergersen, owner of Valley Orchard in Cherry Valley, has grown fruit and welcomed customers to experience the best of local agriculture for 50 years.
After a challenging spring, he’s adapting with a focus on pumpkins, fall raspberries, baked goods, and other seasonal favorites. His resilience and commitment to his family-owned business show how Illinois retailers continue to adapt and grow, no matter what challenges come their way.
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.
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.
Alderpeople at Tuesday’s Committee on Contracting Oversight and Equity meeting are hoping to force completion of a more than two-year process of choosing a new vendor for technology to quickly facilitate the dispatch of emergency services to gun violence victims following a shooting, technology that is supposed to replace the city’s ShotSpotter system.
The committee will meet at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201A.
Several of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s nominees to the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) Board of Commissioners were either outright rejected or stalled at last week’s City Council meeting following concerns about the mayor stacking the board with allies who will fire the head of the agency — allegations the mayor has denied.
The City Council on Wednesday passed two environmental policy measures, including a call for Springfield to regulate data centers and a ban on the city government’s purchase and use of foodware products made from Styrofoam and similar material.
The City Council on Wednesday approved an expansion of the city’s automated parking enforcement pilot permanent, a new human resources commissioner and fleet and facility management commissioner and a massive police misconduct settlement.
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.
The Illinois Manufacturers’ Association (IMA) and the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC) concluded a statewide bus tour Friday at Richard J. Daley College, where industry advocates spoke about the future of manufacturing in Illinois
Rep. Ann Williams (D-Chicago) and Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) partnered with panelists from the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition to host a town hall Tuesday discussing proposed legislation to regulate data centers in Illinois.
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a “Comprehensive Climate Action Plan” this month, detailing the measures needed for the state to reach its goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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