Chicago News
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Four South Side aldermen – one a committeeman – gathered to endorse Frederick “Fritz” Kaegi for Assessor Wednesday afternoon. Ald. Danny Solis (25), Ald. Toni Foulkes (16), Ald. Rick Muñoz (22), and Ald. George Cardenas (12) cited the impact unfair assessments have on their communities, including declining property values, bankruptcy and foreclosures.
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Ald. Marty Quinn (13) was the center of attention Wednesday morning at City Hall, as reporters clustered outside the meeting of the Committee on License and Consumer Protection hoping to ask him about the imbruglia that has swamped Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and led to calls for his resignation as the head of the Illinois Democratic Party.
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Cook County Assessor candidate Andrea Raila, as promised, appealed the Cook County Electoral Board's decision to remove her from the ballot to the Circuit Court on Tuesday.
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City Council’s Finance Committee meets at 10:00 a.m. today for one agenda item - a hearing on sexual harassment at the Ford Motor Plant on the city’s South Side. The resolution is sponsored by Ald. Ed Burke (14), Ald. Marge Laurino (39), Ald. Carrie Austin (34), Ald. Michelle Harris (8) and City Clerk Anna Valencia.
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An independent study commissioned to examine the fairness in Cook County’s property tax assessment system came to an unsurprising conclusion: the system is more variable and regressive than industry standards, leading to low-value homeowners paying more, and high-value homeowners paying less.
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Englewood’s new high school that would consolidate student populations from four under-enrolled South Side schools passed the Chicago Plan Commission easily Thursday, as did another slew of West Loop projects and two new transit oriented developments.
Sterling Bay's new West Loop properties at the site of the former Coyne College will generate millions for the city's Neighborhood Opportunity Fund. Photo: Chicago Department of Planning and Development.
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The Chicago Plan Commission meets at 10:00 a.m. today to consider a cluster of zoning changes in the 27th Ward, and two lakefront developments: a practice facility for Loyola athletes, and construction of the new Englewood high school in Ald. Roderick Sawyer’s (6) ward serve students from Harper, Hope, Robeson and TEAM Englewood high schools.
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Two attorneys made their case to the Cook County electoral board Tuesday afternoon–one warning if the board did not uphold a hearing officer’s recommendation and remove Assessor candidate Andrea Raila from the ballot, electoral chaos would ensue. The other said Raila’s removal would disenfranchise hundreds of voters who signed her petitions.
