Chicago News
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FEB 03, 2020
Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s name isn’t on the ballot in March, but the changes he's made to how the county’s millions of properties are assessed is at the center of the race to win a position charged with checking Kaegi’s math.
Democratic Board of Review candidates Abdelnasser Rashid, left, and Tammy Wendt. [Facebook]
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Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin will hold four town hall meetings during the next several weeks as part of an effort to make the little-known office a resource for Chicagoans struggling to launch businesses or land investors.
Breaking from the behind-the-scenes path taken by her predecessors, Conyears-Ervin said she is determined to leverage her control of the city’s approximately $9 billion investment portfolio to help boost Chicago’s economically struggling communities by publicly holding the financial institutions the city does business with “accountable.” -
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State Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado (D-Chicago) took her seat in the Illinois House of Representatives on Wednesday, hopeful that the storm of controversy that greeted her appointment has passed — even as Gov. JB Pritzker vowed to crack down on the kind of corruption that prompted her appointment.
Eva-Dina Delgago addresses Chicago elected officials as she asks to be appointed to replace former State. Rep. Luis Arroyo. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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Scooters will return to Chicago’s streets this summer — but only as part of a second pilot program after city officials concluded that the first test run of the two-wheelers ended with “mixed results.”
Jump was one of 10 scooter firms that participated in the pilot program. [Jump]
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Marchers in support of a CBA ordinance to protect against Obama Center-related displacement head down Stony Island Avenue on Sept. 5.
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A city-crafted proposal designed to prevent longtime residents from being pushed out of gentrifying parts of Woodlawn near the planned Obama Presidential Center does not go far enough, a coalition of community advocates said Tuesday.
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JAN 29, 2020
Former State Sen. Martin Sandoval (D-Chicago) promised to “go balls to the walls” to protect the interests of a red-light camera company in exchange for $5,000 in monthly bribes, according to a plea agreement Sandoval signed as part of a guilty plea he entered on Tuesday.
“I’m ashamed, and I’m sorry. I want to apologize to the people of Illinois, to my constituents," said former State Sen. Martin Sandoval, (D-Chicago). [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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JAN 24, 2020
A rendering shows what a 20-story hotel at 800 W. Lake St. could look like.
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Fulton Market needs a new CTA station to cope with the flood of new residents and workers unleashed by the neighborhood’s development boom, Ald. Walter Burnett (27) said on Thursday.
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An exclusive deal allowing Lyft to operate the city’s Divvy bicycle-sharing system — inked at former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s final City Council meeting in April — does not amount to a “backroom monopoly” that improperly “locks out” competitors, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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Ald. Brian Hopkins (2) addresses a community meeting. [Block Club Chicago]
