Chicago News
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NOV 08, 2019
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Police Supt. Eddie Johnson will end his 31-year career with the Chicago Police Department at the end of the year, but the probe into what happened before — and after — he was discovered asleep in his running car just after midnight Oct. 17 will continue, the city’s watchdog said Thursday.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot embraces Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson. [Chicago Mayor's Office]
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NOV 08, 2019
Some local Democratic Party leaders are vowing to boycott a meeting scheduled to fill a Northwest Side state house vacancy if ousted former State Rep. Luis Arroyo (D-Chicago) has any part in choosing his own successor.
Ald. Ariel Reboyras (30) fields reporters questions. [AD Quig/The Daily Line]
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Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners Executive Director Lance Gough had a surprise for aldermen as he appeared for the annual budget hearing for the agency charged with running Chicago’s elections.
“The Board of Elections has been good to me,” said Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners Executive Director Lance Gough. “I’m leaving the organization better than I found it. It’s time.” [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
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Three aldermen renewed their push on Thursday to hike the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2021 and end exceptions for tipped workers like restaurant servers.
Flanked by Ald. David Moore (17), left, and Ald. Carlos Ramirez Rosa (35), right, Ald. Sophia King (4) said tipped workers should be paid $15 an hour before tips. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
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As multiple federal investigations continue to roil Springfield, Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday called for state law to be changed to require those who lobby state lawmakers to disclose how much they are paid — and suggested that Chicago’s rules could be a template for the changes.
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NOV 07, 2019
UNLOCKEDThree developments — all approved within the last year — will nearly triple the number of affordable units produced under the city’s Affordable Requirements Ordinance since it went into effect in 2007, according to data released by the Chicago Department of Housing on Thursday.
Developers have yet to break ground on the River District, The 78 and Lincoln Yards mega-projects. But if the builders follow through on their commitments to the city, their projects are set to collectively create 2,700 units of on-site or off-site affordable housing, eclipsing the 1,046 affordable units whose construction the evolving housing ordinance has forced to date. -
The tentative agreement that ended an 11-day strike by the Chicago Teachers Union will cost the Chicago Public School district $33 million in 2020, officials announced Tuesday.
Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates and President Jesse Sharkey answer reporters questions. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
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A set of “compromise” language added to the county’s Just Housing Ordinance on Tuesday may not be enough to end the tumultuous rulemaking process that has kept the law in limbo since commissioners overwhelmingly passed it in April.
Tom Benedetto, legislative analyst with the Chicagoland Apartment Association, urges commissioners to give landlords more leeway in denying rental applications. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s pick for health commissioner spent five hours Tuesday trying to convince aldermen that the administration will expand mental health services in Chicago without reopening six clinics closed by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2011.
Health and Human Relations Chair Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6) meets with Dr. Allison Arwady, Mayor Lori Lightfoot's pick for health commissioner before Thursday's confirmation hearing. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
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Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson kicked off Monday’s hearing on the department’s 2020 $1.5 billion budget by telling aldermen that the task of leading the more than 13,000-employee department has “taken a toll on my health.”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Police Supt. Eddie Johnson field questions from reporters. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas.
