Chicago News
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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.”
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Commissioners will likely hold a much speedier series of meetings Wednesday than they did Tuesday – their committee action includes routine appointments, settlements, tax breaks, and potential new sexual harassment training mandates for contractors who do business with the county.
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The Chicago Teachers Union called Tuesday for an independent task force to launch an investigation of the burgeoning sex abuse scandal swirling around the Chicago Public Schools. A rematch is set for the 39th Ward aldermanic race, and city, state and federal officials announced a massive federal grant would be used to speed rail traffic through the South Side.
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JUN 05, 2018
Another candidate joined the already crowded race to replace Ald. Ameya Pawar (47) and mayoral candidates Willie Wilson and Dorothy Brown reported significant donations. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that six new federal prosecutors are on their way to Chicago — four to focus on violent crime.
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Cook County government watchers are in for two long hearings. One focuses on billing practices at the Cook County Health and Hospitals System, which the county’s inspector general alleged cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars in past years. The other is on whether to allow video gambling in unincorporated Cook County – an expansion Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle described as reprehensible, but one off which the county should profit.
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