Chicago News
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JAN 09, 2020
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JAN 08, 2020
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A proposed ordinance aimed at curbing gentrification along The 606's Bloomingdale Trail was reintroduced at City Council this week. [Alisa Hauser/DNAinfo Chicago]
Two aldermen said Wednesday they are on track to resuscitate a measure next week that would freeze construction near the 606 Bloomingdale Trail as a way of blunting rapid gentrification on the Near Northwest Side.
Alds. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35) and Roberto Maldonado (26) told The Daily Line Wednesday they are working on a series of “tweaks” that would narrow the scope of their sweeping ordinance (O2019-9439) to ban building permits, demolition permits and zoning changes near the popular elevated trail for 14 months. Proposed changes include carve-outs for affordable housing developments, as well as for minor construction work. -
JAN 08, 2020
Election officials tossed a challenge against the Cook County Democratic Party’s chosen candidates for three contested seats on the board of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, ensuring that Eira Corral Sepúlveda, Cam Davis and Kim Du Buclet will appear on the March 17 primary ballot.
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JAN 08, 2020
Gia Biagi teased out plans on Tuesday to preserve the city’s controversial red light camera program, boost neighborhood bike and bus infrastructure, and design public spaces to curb violence during a public audition to be permanently installed as Chicago’s top transportation chief.
Gia Biagi, Mayor Lori Lightfoot's pick to lead the Chicago Department of Transportation, fields questions from reporters. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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JAN 07, 2020
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JAN 07, 2020
Attorneys Bob Fioretti urge elections officials to kick State's Attorney Kim Foxx off the ballot. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
Lawyers for former Ald. Bob Fioretti (2) said on Monday that petitions to re-elect Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx showed a “pattern of fraud” in a longshot challenge to get the incumbent thrown off the ballot before she faces Fioretti and two other Democratic challengers in the March 17 primary.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot tapped approximately equal numbers of men and women to serve on citywide boards and commissions and to head up city departments in 2019, according to an analysis by The Daily Line.
Lightfoot made 46 appointments that must be confirmed by aldermen between her inauguration in May and the final City Council meeting of 2019. They were nearly equally divided between white appointees and people of color.
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JAN 03, 2020
With the holiday season over, elections officials began sorting through dozens of challenges that will determine who makes the March 17 primary ballot.
Jacob Meister, right, consults with his attorney during a Thursday hearing on his challenge of the petitions filed by Michael Cabonargi in the Cook County Circuit Court Clerk race. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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JAN 03, 2020
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Chicago will see a raft of new ethics laws take effect at the start of 2020, as federal investigations shadow City Hall. But nonprofit organizations will get a three-month reprieve before new rules requiring them to register as lobbyists take effect amid an outcry about the impact of the new regulations.
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JAN 02, 2020
While most people spent the last days of 2019 preparing for holiday celebrations or buying last-minute gifts, Rosa Escareno, the commissioner of the city’s department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection, had a warning for Chicago’s nascent legal pot industry.
The owners of the MOCA Modern Cannabis dispensary ask the city's Zoning Board of Appeals for a permit for a new dispensary. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
