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Correction (Aug 17, 2018): Some of our data used for Garry McCarthy's fundraising were included by mistake, over representing donations from Illinois and under-representing donations from Chicago and Illinois. We have updated our figures and the chart below.
Lori Lightfoot jumped in the fundraising game on Friday, unloading at least $243,000 into her campaign fund just one day after the state received her committee filing.
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MAY 21, 2018
With nine candidates already shaking hands and kissing babies in their push to deny Mayor Rahm Emanuel a third term, the leader of the City Council’s Progressive Caucus is still weighing his options. The Chicago Teachers’ Union is asking their members to make their voices heard in Springfield before the legislative session ends May 31 and Chicago officials prepare to take two more votes on the Obama Presidential Center.
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A City Club luncheon titled “Civilian Police Oversight: A Bridge Too Far?” kicks off at 11:30 a.m. Monday and promises a spirited discussion about police reform, which has come to define the early stages of the campaign for mayor of Chicago.
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MAY 18, 2018
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's effort to crack down on carjackings by stepping up the penalties for teens ran aground in the Illinois House after Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle came out in opposition to the effort. Former Chicago Police Board President Lori Lightfoot made her campaign for mayor official and city officials out 3,200 properties up for sale for $1 each.
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MAY 17, 2018
After months of debate — and gallons of newspaper ink and millions of pixels — the debate over plans for the Obama Presidential Center moves to City Hall, with the Plan Commission scheduled to consider the massive proposal for Jackson Park Thursday. Plans for an affordable housing complex on the Far Northwest Side that created a firestorm of controversy will not move forward after being passed over by a state agency for tax credits, and Ald. Ariel Reyboras (30) said he is working to change the format of four planned hearings on proposals for police oversight after he acknowledge the first meeting did not go as planned.
Ald. Ariel Reyboras (30) said changes are planned for hearings on police oversight proposals. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line] -
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A coalition of community organizations demanding federal oversight of efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department released a 10-point plan Tuesday that group leaders said must be included in the final package approved by a judge.
Immanuel Campbell, the lead plaintiff in a suit that seeks to reform the Chicago Police Department, said officers must be held accountable for their behavior. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line] -
Cook County commissioners meet for a full slate of committee meetings Wednesday, with proposals for an anti-retaliatory funeral shooting task force, increased fines and public shamings for those who violate the county’s public morals code, and a donation from a mayoral candidate on the docket.
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Members of Cook County’s Asset Management committee agreed to lease two new offices to relocate 235 employees who now work on the county’s Oak Forest campus, moving one step closer to getting the sprawling site off the county’s tax rolls and a potential redevelopment.
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MAY 16, 2018
The first of five hearings about several competing oversight ordinances Monday evening featured robust support for the measure proposed by Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35) and complaints about the process, a new ad featuring Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson is set to air during your favorite cable television shows and aldermen moved to force a vote on a measure that would require city officials to prepare impact statements on big-ticket city projects.
The crowd at the first hearing on police oversight objected to the format of the hearing, which did not include details of several competing proposals. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
