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On the same day Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Chicago Police Department Supt. Eddie Johnson submitted the final consent decree designed to reform the Chicago Police, the attorney general’s office released the names and applications of nine different firms competing to become the independent monitor tasked with overseeing the reforms.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed 47th Ward Ald. Ameya Pawar’s push to study what a universal basic income will mean for Chicago. Former Gov. Pat Quinn vowed to go to court after the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners affirmed a ruling by a hearing officer that voters should not get a chance to decide whether Chicago mayors should be limited to two terms.
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For weeks, animal-rights activists have made sure to be at City Hall early on days when the City Council is scheduled to meet in order to make a public plea to aldermen to ban horse-drawn carriages.
A carriage from the now-shuttered Noble Horse stables rumbles down Wells Street in 2011. [Flickr/David B. Gleason] -
Ald. Brian Hopkins (2) is set to launch a push to create a registry of Chicago murals, after it ran into a brick wall at last month’s meeting of the Zoning Committee failed to advance Thursday, after aldermen agreed the plan designed to prevent graffiti-removal crews from wiping them out could backfire. Two new candidates for the City Council surfaced, and a commissioner weighed in on what Toni Preckwinkle would be like as mayor.
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SEP 11, 2018
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Former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s effort to limit Chicago mayors to two terms in office should not appear on the Nov. 6 ballot, a Chicago Board of Elections Commissioner ruled Monday.
Former Gov. Pat Quinn delivers mayoral term limit petitions signed by more than 86,481 people to Peter Polacek, the managing editor of the City Council Journal. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
Preckwinkle consults with her Chief of Staff, John Keller, at a Cook County Board meeting on September 12, 2018.
