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Plaintiffs Andy Thayer and Rick Garcia will have to wait another month to learn the fate of their case against the city that seeks to nullify the June 2016 City Council meeting because it was “not properly opened,” while airlines meet with aldermen and Police Board President Lori Lightfoot speaks to the City Club.
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Assessor candidate Frederick “Fritz” Kaegi is confident in a win on March 20. “Polling looks terrific.” Even calculating for potential unusable votes cast for Andrea Raila, Kaegi said, “We’re not worried. We’re firmly focused on Joe Berrios. I think to the extent that people may be voting for her it may be drawing equally from both of us.”
(Kaegi takes questions from reporters after a speech at the City Club of Chicago on March 8, 2018. Photo: A.D. Quig, The Daily Line)
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An analysis of Chicago Police Department data from July 1, 2016 through Dec. 31, 2016 found while the city and police department have made “great strides in its efforts to reform its policies and practices and public image within the past two years,” police stops of black civilians “outnumbered stops of other racial and ethnic groups by a significant margin.” And black and Latino civilians “were significantly more likely to be patted down” than white civilians.
(Chart via “The Consultant’s Second Semi-Annual Report Investigatory Stop & Protective Pat Down Agreement,” March 2018.)
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One of the candidates in Cook County’s 7th District race tossed accusations of pay-to-play politics at her opponent, alleging improper donations that are similar to those that Assessor Joe Berrios is fighting fines for.
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As the final weeks of primary season winds down, the mailers and ads keep coming. We've compiled the ones we've received in the past few weeks here, and are always accepting more. Please scan or snap a picture of both sides of mailers (if possible, obscure your name and home address), send links to ads, or send audio files of robocalls.
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Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios skipped Thursday’s hearing about the results of the Civic Consulting Alliance analysis of his office’s valuations of residential properties.
Berrios’ team touted “immediate” changes to the residential assessments for the 2018 cycle in Chicago, and dismissed calls from the assessor's challenger in the March 20 primary to immediately reassess Chicago’s highest-value commercial properties to give homeowners a break.
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Commissioners were deluged with hundreds of comments and heard more than four hours of testimony Thursday from south suburban mayors, managers and developers furious about a proposal to force businesses that get county tax breaks to pay the prevailing wage on construction projects.
