Chicago News
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While Chicago might be more than 250 days out from municipal elections, there are already close to a dozen mayoral candidates, more than 50 aldermanic challengers, major defining issues emerging, and one of the city’s most powerful unions already putting stakes in the ground.
On this episode of The Daily Line's Aldercast, Victor Reyes, the once-behind-the-scenes force behind Mayor Richard M. Daley’s Hispanic Democratic Organization, shares his advice for Mayor Rahm Emanuel and aldermen. Fresh off of completing a Masters program at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, Reyes shares insights from his capstone project focused on what Emanuel can do to win Latino voters in 2019 and his 30 years in Chicago politics.
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JUN 14, 2018
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The Public Safety Committee meets Wednesday with only one item on its agenda — to fill the spot left vacant when board president turned mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot resigned. Chicago Public Schools officials made a U-turn in their dealing with the scandal over sexual abuse of students while Dorothy Brown kicked her campaign into a higher gear with a South Side listening tour.
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Members of the City Council’s License and Consumer Protection Committee unanimously approved a measure to allow sidewalk cafes to operate year round under a measure (O2018-4138) backed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
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Downtown Ald. Brendan Reilly (42) said Tuesday that “no one has come to talk” to him about a plan to replace the Thompson Center — even though the state budget relies on $270 million from the sale of the three-decade-old state office building.
The Thompson Center in the Loop. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line] -
The U.S. Supreme Court kept Chicago union leaders waiting on a major decision, while Cook County officials prepared to break ground on new development at the Old Cook County Hospital, and Chicago’s inspector general moved closer to picking a new public safety inspector general.
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Chicago Teachers Union members joined a coalition of groups to block traffic through the Loop to demand Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, allow a vote to end mayoral control of the Chicago Public Schools and lift the statewide ban on rent control.
Members of the Chicago Teachers Union lead a march on Randolph Street through the Loop. [A.D. Quig/The Daily Line] -
JUN 11, 2018
All eyes will be on the U.S. Supreme Court Monday morning, as the justices are expected to hand down their decision in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, a lawsuit triggered by Gov. Bruce Rauner that could reshape the role of public-sector unions across the nation. Admirers in and outside of the labor movement remembered Eddie “Oilcan” Sadlowski, who died Sunday.
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JUN 11, 2018
City Treasurer Kurt Summers’ $100 million investment fund — designed to breathe new life into the South and West sides of Chicago and help fight crime and blight with affordable loans between $100,000 and $1 million — is one step closer to making its first investment.
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The condom dispenser in the ward office of Ald. Raymond Lopez (15). [15th Ward Office]
