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Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis was hospitalized, and Chicago Public Schools Inspector General Nicholas Schuler offered to handle complaints of sexual abuses in Chicago schools after a Tribune investigation. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Secretary of State Jesse White joined forces to keep up the pressure on party buses, once referred to as “rolling cemeteries” by Ald. Emma Mitts (37.) Chicago lawyer and failed attorney general candidate Renato Mariotti inked a deal to appear regularly on CNN.
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Commissioners blazed through most of Wednesday’s business, giving the go-ahead for video gambling in unincorporated Cook County without discussion, and introducing a measure to assess whether Sheriff Tom Dart could handle background checks for teachers in Cook County. Neither Board President Toni Preckwinkle nor Finance Chair John Daley were present – Preckwinkle was mourning the death of a member of her political organization, president pro tem Deb Sims said, and Daley was hospitalized.
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The City Council’s Committee on Health and Environmental Protection will meet at 11 a.m. Thursday to discuss a census of gay, lesbian bisexual and transgender Chicagoans and encourage officials to take actions that ensures “health equity for Chicago’s LGBT communities.”
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Commissioners will likely hold a much speedier series of meetings Wednesday than they did Tuesday – their committee action includes routine appointments, settlements, tax breaks, and potential new sexual harassment training mandates for contractors who do business with the county.
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The Chicago Teachers Union called Tuesday for an independent task force to launch an investigation of the burgeoning sex abuse scandal swirling around the Chicago Public Schools. A rematch is set for the 39th Ward aldermanic race, and city, state and federal officials announced a massive federal grant would be used to speed rail traffic through the South Side.
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JUN 05, 2018
Another candidate joined the already crowded race to replace Ald. Ameya Pawar (47) and mayoral candidates Willie Wilson and Dorothy Brown reported significant donations. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that six new federal prosecutors are on their way to Chicago — four to focus on violent crime.
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Cook County government watchers are in for two long hearings. One focuses on billing practices at the Cook County Health and Hospitals System, which the county’s inspector general alleged cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars in past years. The other is on whether to allow video gambling in unincorporated Cook County – an expansion Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle described as reprehensible, but one off which the county should profit.
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The odds that the only Chicago Republican to serve in the General Assembly will keep his seat grew exponentially stronger after his Democratic opponent abruptly dropped out of the race. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced he would give $150,000 to groups working in North and South Lawndale, and mayoral candidate Paul Vallas announced his first big wave of donations. In other action, City Clerk Anna Valencia made her bid for a full term as clerk official.
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Ripple effects caused by the closure six years ago of half of the city’s mental health clinics can still be felt on the city Southwest Side, a coalition of neighborhood organizations said during a City Hall news conference Thursday.
Ald. Toni Foulkes (16) said she regretted her vote to close six mental health clinics. [A.D. Quig/The Daily Line] -
Mayor Rahm Emanuel continued to raise campaign cash at a blistering pace — even as two national magazines spotlighted two of his challengers. The man whom Emanuel defeated to win another term as mayor is set to appear Thursday with U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi — marking Jesus “Chuy” Garcia’s ascension to the heights of national Democratic politics.
