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  • Alex Nitkin
    MAR 23, 2020
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    City officials say they are pushing to get loans to hard-hit small businesses quickly

    Approximately 300 Chicago business owners applied for emergency loans in the hours after Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a new program designed to keep small businesses afloat while the city is under a statewide stay-at-home order, officials said.

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  • Alex Nitkin
    MAR 23, 2020
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    Judge to decide fate of Yarbrough’s office after arguments close in Shakman case

    Local government reform fixture Michael Shakman answers questions from reporters. [A.D. Quig/The Daily Line]
    When employees in the Cook County Clerk’s office report back to their offices after the coronavirus pandemic, they could be under the microscope wielded by a new federal watchdog.

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  • Heather Cherone
    MAR 23, 2020
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    Cook County to stop charging people with ‘low-level’ drug crimes amid Coronavirus pandemic

    Fresh off a win in the Democratic primary in her bid for a second term, State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced her office will not prosecute people charged with non-violent, low-level drug offenses amid the spreading Coronavirus pandemic.

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  • Alex Nitkin
    MAR 20, 2020
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    Kaegi suspends assessment mailers, appeal deadlines amid Coronavirus crisis

    Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi told property owners on Thursday not to worry about their assessments for the next tax year — for now, at least.

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  • Heather Cherone
    MAR 20, 2020
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    Schools to stay closed through April 20; Sick ‘will face consequences’ if they don’t stay home, Lightfoot orders

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    Mayor Lori Lightfoot sought to reassure Chicagoans Thursday that she and her administration were taking steps both to protect residents from the spread of the Coronavirus and soften the economic crash it caused.

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  • MAR 19, 2020
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    Lightfoot to stop ticketing, booting cars to ease cash crunch for Chicagoans grappling with Coronavirus

    Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot addresses the news media. [Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago]
    Chicago officials will stop ticketing, booting and impounding cars that do not pose a public safety threat through April 30 as part of an effort to help Chicagoans facing a cash crunch caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday.

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  • Heather Cherone
    MAR 19, 2020
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    Burke on brink of losing his spot as 14th Ward committeeperson after 52 years

    Ald. Ed Burke (14) listens at the May 29 City Council meeting. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line] 

    When State Rep. Aaron Ortiz (D-Chicago) was born in 1991, 14th Ward Ald. Ed Burke had been the highest-ranking Democratic Party official in the Southwest Side ward for 23 years.

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  • Alex Nitkin
    MAR 19, 2020
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    Women ran the table on Election Day: ‘This is not a man’s world anymore’

    From U.S. Congress to the Illinois House and the Cook County court system, women dominated the Democratic Primary on Tuesday.

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  • Alex Nitkin
    MAR 18, 2020
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    Martinez leading Democratic race for Cook County Circuit Court Clerk despite snub from party leaders

    State Sen. Iris Martinez (D-Chicago) was snubbed by party leaders, lagged in fundraising and was mostly ignored during debates. And she’s likely going to be the next Clerk of the Circuit Court for Cook County.

    But Tuesday night, Martinez appeared to win a decisive victory on Tuesday in the four-way race to succeed circuit court clerk Dorothy Brown, according to unofficial early returns.

    Martinez won approximately 34 percent of the vote with approximately 98 percent of precincts reporting.

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  • Heather Cherone
    MAR 18, 2020
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    Lightfoot cancels City Council meeting, suspends ‘non-essential’ city services

    The Chicago City Council chambers. [Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago]

    After insisting for days that the Chicago City Council had to meet Wednesday to pass crucial measures designed to halt the spread of the Coronavirus, Mayor Lori Lightfoot indefinitely postponed the meeting Tuesday, acknowledging that the risk of spreading the disease was too great.

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  • Alex Nitkin
    MAR 17, 2020
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    Cannabis dispensaries, grow site approved but will have to wait for zoning board to act

    Federal recommendations to limit large gatherings did not stop aldermen on Monday from approving three cannabis-related proposals and dozens of other zoning changes during a three-hour meeting at City Hall.

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  • Heather Cherone
    MAR 17, 2020
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    Preckwinkle tells ‘non-essential’ Cook County employees to work at home as she steps up efforts to reduce virus spread

    Cook County closed the public gallery in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19. [Twitter/@CookCountyBoard]

    Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle suspended normal operations of Cook County government on Monday and directed some employees to work from home in an effort to reduce the number of people in the Cook County building.

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  • Heather Cherone
    MAR 17, 2020
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    Voting in the time of COVID-19: What we’re watching on an Election Day like no other

    Poll workers process voters Monday at the Loop Super site. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line] 

    At least some Illinois voters will head to the polls Tuesday amid a global pandemic that has altered nearly every aspect of life in Illinois, with schools, bars, restaurants and casinos shut down for the foreseeable future.

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  • Alex Nitkin
    MAR 16, 2020
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    South Side grow site, dispensary expansion set for zoning approval as weed industry ramps up

    Aldermen are set on Monday to approve a South Side cannabis cultivation site and to give a Southwest Side dispensary the green light to expand, further boosting Chicago’s nascent weed industry.

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  • Heather Cherone
    MAR 16, 2020
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    Lightfoot moves to change sick leave, work from home rules for city workers; Schools, restaurants to close for at least 2 weeks

    Mayor Lori Lightfoot will ask the Chicago City Council to allow as many employees to work from home as possible and to expand the city’s sick leave policies as officials take emergency actions to attempt to stop the spread of coronavirus.

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