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Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin will hold four town hall meetings during the next several weeks as part of an effort to make the little-known office a resource for Chicagoans struggling to launch businesses or land investors.
Breaking from the behind-the-scenes path taken by her predecessors, Conyears-Ervin said she is determined to leverage her control of the city’s approximately $9 billion investment portfolio to help boost Chicago’s economically struggling communities by publicly holding the financial institutions the city does business with “accountable.” -
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State Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado (D-Chicago) took her seat in the Illinois House of Representatives on Wednesday, hopeful that the storm of controversy that greeted her appointment has passed — even as Gov. JB Pritzker vowed to crack down on the kind of corruption that prompted her appointment.
Eva-Dina Delgago addresses Chicago elected officials as she asks to be appointed to replace former State. Rep. Luis Arroyo. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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Scooters will return to Chicago’s streets this summer — but only as part of a second pilot program after city officials concluded that the first test run of the two-wheelers ended with “mixed results.”
Jump was one of 10 scooter firms that participated in the pilot program. [Jump]
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Marchers in support of a CBA ordinance to protect against Obama Center-related displacement head down Stony Island Avenue on Sept. 5.
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A city-crafted proposal designed to prevent longtime residents from being pushed out of gentrifying parts of Woodlawn near the planned Obama Presidential Center does not go far enough, a coalition of community advocates said Tuesday.
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JAN 29, 2020
Former State Sen. Martin Sandoval (D-Chicago) promised to “go balls to the walls” to protect the interests of a red-light camera company in exchange for $5,000 in monthly bribes, according to a plea agreement Sandoval signed as part of a guilty plea he entered on Tuesday.
“I’m ashamed, and I’m sorry. I want to apologize to the people of Illinois, to my constituents," said former State Sen. Martin Sandoval, (D-Chicago). [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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JAN 28, 2020
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JAN 24, 2020
A rendering shows what a 20-story hotel at 800 W. Lake St. could look like.
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Fulton Market needs a new CTA station to cope with the flood of new residents and workers unleashed by the neighborhood’s development boom, Ald. Walter Burnett (27) said on Thursday.
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An exclusive deal allowing Lyft to operate the city’s Divvy bicycle-sharing system — inked at former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s final City Council meeting in April — does not amount to a “backroom monopoly” that improperly “locks out” competitors, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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Ald. Brian Hopkins (2) addresses a community meeting. [Block Club Chicago]
