Chicago News
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MAR 26, 2020
The busy lakefront trail Wednesday. JUSTIN LAURENCE/ BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned Chicagoans who flocked to the Lakefront Trail to stay home, saying she was prepared to shut down the city’s trails and parks to enforce Gov. JB Pritzker’s stay-at-home order designed to stop the spread of coronavirus.
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MAR 25, 2020
On paper, Tammy Wendt was never supposed to win the Democratic primary for a seat on the Cook County Board of Review.
Tammy Wendt campaigns in a picture posted to her Facebook page on March 7. [Facebook]
The Palos Heights attorney and first-time candidate faced Abdelnasser Rashid, a rising star in the Cook County Democratic Party, who boasted the near-unanimous backing of high-ranking elected officials, regional unions and newspaper editorial boards.
But she won anyway.
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MAR 24, 2020
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MAR 24, 2020
A New York federal appeals court affirmed a ruling on Monday that prohibits elected officials from blocking people or deleting critical comments on social media, bolstering rules from the Chicago Board of Ethics that regulate regulate how aldermen use Facebook and Twitter.
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MAR 24, 2020
Mayor Lori Lightfoot addresses the news media. [Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago]
Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced her administration would house as many as 5,000 Chicagoans who are sick from coronavirus or awaiting test results in five hotels across the city, as she said she had lost confidence that the federal government will help cities cope with the pandemic.
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MAR 23, 2020
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MAR 23, 2020
When employees in the Cook County Clerk’s office report back to their offices after the coronavirus pandemic, they could be under the microscope wielded by a new federal watchdog.
Local government reform fixture Michael Shakman answers questions from reporters. [A.D. Quig/The Daily Line]
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MAR 23, 2020
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MAR 20, 2020
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MAR 20, 2020
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Chicago officials will stop ticketing, booting and impounding cars that do not pose a public safety threat through April 30 as part of an effort to help Chicagoans facing a cash crunch caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot addresses the news media. [Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago]
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MAR 19, 2020
Ald. Ed Burke (14) listens at the May 29 City Council meeting. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
When State Rep. Aaron Ortiz (D-Chicago) was born in 1991, 14th Ward Ald. Ed Burke had been the highest-ranking Democratic Party official in the Southwest Side ward for 23 years.
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MAR 18, 2020
State Sen. Iris Martinez (D-Chicago) was snubbed by party leaders, lagged in fundraising and was mostly ignored during debates. And she’s likely going to be the next Clerk of the Circuit Court for Cook County.
But Tuesday night, Martinez appeared to win a decisive victory on Tuesday in the four-way race to succeed circuit court clerk Dorothy Brown, according to unofficial early returns.
Martinez won approximately 34 percent of the vote with approximately 98 percent of precincts reporting.
