Chicago News
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The Illinois State Police is working to clear the DNA testing backlog at Illinois’ crime lab — which last year the agency said could take up to five years to get through — but Illinois’ precarious financial history is complicating the process, according to an ISP report published last month.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s pick to chair the Chicago Housing Authority board (A2019-67) sailed through a hearing of the City Council Housing and Real Estate Committee on Monday, setting her up for final confirmation by the full council next week.
Angela Hurlock greets reporters as she prepares for her confirmation hearing as CHA Board chair. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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OCT 07, 2019
Most homeowners in Chicago’s north and northwest suburbs learned this year that Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s office determined the assessed value of their property spiked during the past year.
But the increases were a fraction of the potential tax hike faced by owners of office, apartment, retail and industrial buildings. And that likely means big changes for the way property taxes are collected while Kaegi is in charge.
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Aldermen dealt Mayor Lori Lightfoot another setback Thursday as they refused to confirm her pick for health commissioner amid questions about whether the city should reopen six mental health clinics closed by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2011.
Health and Human Relations Chair Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6) meets with Dr. Allison Arwady, Mayor Lori Lightfoot's pick for health commissioner before Thursday's confirmation hearing. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
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The City Council’s Budget Committee advanced a proposal Wednesday that will allow any alderman to request that the City Council’s Office of Financial Analysis examine a proposal’s impact on the city’s budget.
“There were a lot of cooks in the kitchen,” Budget Committee Chair Ald. Pat Dowell (3) said. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
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When Dr. Allison Arwady last appeared before the City Council, she repeatedly clashed with aldermen as she defended former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s decision to close six mental health clinics in 2011.
When Arwady returns to the City Council Chambers Thursday, she will ask those same aldermen to confirm her appointment as health commissioner.
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OCT 03, 2019
A scrum of city and federal officials gathered Wednesday morning to congratulate one another for reaching the official start-line for the Red Purple Modernization project, which is set to speed up service and expand rush hour capacity by more than half for the system’s busiest train line.
City officials celebrate the launch of the $2.1 billion effort to modernize the Red and Purple CTA train lines. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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Jay Ramirez, the long-time Northwest Side organizer who announced his candidacy over the weekend for 1st ward Democratic committeeperson, wants to make it clear that former Ald. Joe Moreno has nothing to do with his campaign.
Daniel La Spata, Jay Ramirez and Lauren Young [Submitted]
Ramirez whipped up votes and ran communications for Moreno’s failed re-election campaign earlier this year. He chaired the now-defunct 1st Ward First committee, which fundraised for Moreno’s bid.
And Ramirez spoke for Moreno one more time this week, telling The Daily Line that the former alderman and current 1st ward committeeperson — who did not respond to a request for comment for this story — declined to run for another term so that he could “focus on his family.”
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“There is $800 billion at stake and a decade of consequences,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said. “Stand up, fight back and be counted.”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot sought to cast the act of being counted in the 2020 Census as “the ultimate form of protest” of President Donald Trump’s effort to target immigrant communities.
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Photo of the hole at Six Corners on Sept. 30, 2019. The Bank of America at the corner of Irving Park Road and Milwaukee Avenue was torn down in 2016.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday that Ald. Jim Gardiner (45) “overstates his ability” to block The Point at Six Corners, a huge development proposed for the busy intersection of Cicero Avenue, Milwaukee Avenue and Irving Park Road.
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Inspector General Joseph Ferguson is preparing to audit Chicago’s law regulating short-term rentals to determine whether all shared-housing units are registered with the city — and whether the city is using the fees generated by the rentals to help homeless Chicagoans and those suffering from domestic violence.
Angela Hurlock [Submitted]
