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Aldermen are expected to approve a $10.7 billion spending plan for 2019 in less than a month — but the majority of questions during the first day of budget hearings at City Hall focused on how officials will pay the bill for the city’s pensions, which is set to jump 31 percent in 2020.
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A proposal to create a registry of Chicago murals advanced Monday, after aldermen resolved concerns that the plan designed to prevent graffiti-removal crews from wiping them out could backfire.
Artist J.C. Rivera paints a mural near the Paulina Brown Line stop. [Lakeview Chamber of Commerce/Facebook] -
One day after receiving a massive check from a rap superstar, Amara Enyia will rally with another in Woodlawn. Chicago police will now carry naloxone, which can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, thanks to a grant announced by Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office. City Clerk Anna Valencia and the Police Board will take center stage on day 2 of budget hearings at City Hall.
“I’d like to say very narcissistically, if I back you, you have a chance — absolutely,” Chance The Rapper said Tuesday at City Hall. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line] -
Democratic nominee for governor JB Pritzker’s efforts to use his nearly unlimited financial resources to elect Democratic candidates at all levels of government resulted in a $50,000 windfall for 10 aldermen since Oct. 1. Budget hearings get underway at City Hall and the Couty Board, and early voting expands city — and county — wide.
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Three of the four Republicans on the Cook County Board are being outraised and outspent by their Democratic challengers, campaign finance records show – and even the one Republican whose challenger has not raised a penny appears a bit worried, releasing a slew of bipartisan endorsements ahead of Nov. 6.
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A political action committee largely funded by the Illinois Manufacturer’s Association has blown the contribution caps in the Cook County Board’s 17th District race in the closing weeks of the campaign.
Cook County Board Comm. Sean Morrison (R-17), right, and challenger Abdelnasser Rashid. [Submitted] -
Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Mayor Rahm Emanuel have winnowed down the list of potential monitors to help oversee the Chicago Police Department consent decree from nine to four.
“Those changes will ultimately help us to reduce violence and better protect the lives of Chicago residents and police officers,” Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said. “This reform effort will continue, regardless of who sits in our seats.”
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Efforts to remake former industrial land along the Chicago River west of The Loop advanced Thursday, after the Plan Commission gave the green light to the massive redevelopment of the Tribune printing plant.
A rendering of the proposed development on what is now the Tribune printing plant. [Solomon Cordwell Buenz] -
Standard & Poor’s said Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s final budget is a reflection of the status quo — but that massive pension bills that will come due in 2020 “casts a shadow” over the spending plan. Nine more aldermen reported $20,000 contributions from Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who has put a total of $280,000 from his campaign fund behind his promise to help his allies on the City Council win re-election. Ald. Michael Scott, Jr. (24) is no longer unopposed in his bid for re-election, as a well-known business owner filed to challenge him in February.
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At the Cook County Board’s last meeting before budget hearings begin, commissioners made quick — and largely unanimous — work of their long agenda.
Comm. John Fritchey address Finance Committee Chairman John Daley at a meeting of the Cook County Board Wednesday. [A.D. Quig/The Daily Line]
Trump Tower. [Flickr/Devos]
