Chicago News
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Two sleepy offices in Cook County are entering uncharted waters. Karen Yarbrough, who as recorder of deeds has been under anti-patronage Shakman oversight her entire term, is the new clerk — where David Orr, considered by many to be one of the godfathers of Chicago’s good government push in the 1980s, could hire and fire employees as he pleased, free of a federal court appointed monitor.
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Ald. Raymond Lopez (15) asked the Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor to review whether the City Council’s Committee on Housing and Real Estate violated the state’s Open Meeting Act by ignoring his quorum call at Thursday’s meeting. Adam Collins, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s communications director, announced his last day would be Friday, as Emanuel prepares to wrap up his time on the fifth floor of City Hall.
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DEC 10, 2018
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Aldermen endorsed Thursday the city’s next five-year housing plan, which calls for Chicago officials to spend $1.4 billion to build or preserve 40,000 homes, despite concerns that the plan does not call for the city to spend enough to tackle the growing affordable housing crisis.
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Mayoral candidate Bill Daley released his first advertisement of the campaign, which called for a one-year property tax freeze, drawing immediate fire from rival Gery Chico. Meanwhile, mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot asked for help fending off a petition challenge from Toni Preckwinkle, and 33rd Ward aldermanic candidate Katie Sieracki opened her campaign office. Got campaign nuggets? Send them to [email protected].
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DEC 06, 2018
The odds were in mayoral candidate Jerry Joyce’s favor Wednesday, allowing him to snag the pole position on the Feb. 26 ballot. Meanwhile, the Chicago Teachers Union’s House of Delegates tossed the union’s considerable weight behind Toni Preckwinkle in the mayor’s race and Melissa Conyears-Ervin in the treasurer’s race, along with 19 aldermanic hopefuls, on Wednesday.
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The allegations of sexual abuse, assault and patient safety violations swirling around a Chicago psychiatric hospital is set to take center stage at a hearing Wednesday at City Hall, as aldermen consider yanking the license for Uptown’s Aurora Chicago Lakeshore Hospital.
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DEC 05, 2018
The leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union will ask delegates to endorse Toni Preckwinkle in the mayor’s race and Melissa Conyears-Ervin in the treasurer’s race, along with a host of aldermanic hopefuls. Candidates eager to be first — or last — on the Feb. 26 ballot will take their chances at a lottery Wednesday. Meanwhile, none of the ballot questions submitted to elections officials drew objections, meaning all will likely make it on to the ballot — as long as they survive the election board’s scrutiny. Now that the mayoral and aldermanic campaigns are in full swing, TDL brings you the first installment of trail notes with quick hits about all of the races.
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