Chicago News
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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]
