Chicago News
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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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Five hearings about four competing proposals designed to shape how the Chicago Police Department will be reformed — and how police misconduct will be handled — amounted to nothing more than “big shouting matches,” Ald. Ariel Reboyras (30) said Thursday.
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The city’s agreement with ComEd to provide electric utilities to 1.2 million Chicago customers comes to an end on Dec. 31, 2020, giving the city the first chance to renegotiate terms in 20 years. Aldermen laid out some potential areas for demand in a hearing Wednesday, including more minority participation.
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JUN 08, 2018
Chicago Chief Data Officer Tom Schenk Jr. announced Thursday he was leaving the public sector. Ald. Ariel Reboyras (30) launched a new Facebook page as he prepares for a tough re-election campaign, former Gov. Pat Quinn pushed a ballot measure that would limit Chicago mayors to no more than two terms, and Ald. Proco Joe Moreno (1) gained a new opponent in the 2019 race.
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Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis was hospitalized, and Chicago Public Schools Inspector General Nicholas Schuler offered to handle complaints of sexual abuses in Chicago schools after a Tribune investigation. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Secretary of State Jesse White joined forces to keep up the pressure on party buses, once referred to as “rolling cemeteries” by Ald. Emma Mitts (37.) Chicago lawyer and failed attorney general candidate Renato Mariotti inked a deal to appear regularly on CNN.
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Commissioners blazed through most of Wednesday’s business, giving the go-ahead for video gambling in unincorporated Cook County without discussion, and introducing a measure to assess whether Sheriff Tom Dart could handle background checks for teachers in Cook County. Neither Board President Toni Preckwinkle nor Finance Chair John Daley were present – Preckwinkle was mourning the death of a member of her political organization, president pro tem Deb Sims said, and Daley was hospitalized.
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The City Council’s Committee on Health and Environmental Protection will meet at 11 a.m. Thursday to discuss a census of gay, lesbian bisexual and transgender Chicagoans and encourage officials to take actions that ensures “health equity for Chicago’s LGBT communities.”
The condom dispenser in the ward office of Ald. Raymond Lopez (15). [15th Ward Office]
