Chicago News
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MAR 13, 2020
Former Cook County Comm. Richard Boykin turned heads in January when he promised during a candidate forum that, if he were elected as the next clerk of the county’s courts, he would forgive millions of dollars in debt owed to the county’s court system.
The candidates for Cook County Circuit Court Clerk debate. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
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MAR 13, 2020
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MAR 12, 2020
Voting by mail is a good way for voters to limit potential exposure to Coronavirus, or COVID-19. But voting early in person is better, election officials said Wednesday.
The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners has logged 90,020 applications for mail-in ballots, Chair Marisel Hernandez told reporters. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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Legislation that would put an elected board of Chicago residents in charge of the Chicago Police Department stalled Tuesday amid a dispute between Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her hand-picked Public Safety Committee chair over how policy should be set for the police department.
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Animal rights activists will try again Wednesday to convince aldermen to ban horse-drawn carriages, 18 months after they fell short in their years-long push to outlaw the popular tourist attraction.
A carriage from the now-shuttered Noble Horse stables rumbles down Wells Street in 2011. [Flickr/David B. Gleason]
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MAR 10, 2020
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot in her City Hall office. [Madison Hopkins/BGA]
Nearly 30 years ago, Chicago’s mayor and Commonwealth Edison squared off in a high-stakes battle over how the public utility would operate the city’s power grid.
Then-Mayor Richard M. Daley was under intense pressure to extract concessions from the company, including assistance for the poor and elderly and assurances Chicago wouldn’t suffer major power outages. To try to get his way, the administration even publicly debated the city taking over the utility’s infrastructure. -
Former Vice President Joe Biden is the best Democratic candidate to take on President Donald Trump and defend Chicago residents, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Friday, spurning Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot endorses former Vice President Joe Biden for president as his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, looks on. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
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Cook County Comm. Jeff Tobolski (D-16).
Cook County Comm. Jeffrey Tobolski (D-16) announced on Friday that he will resign from the Cook County Board of Commissioners — five months after federal investigators raided his suburban office amid a growing corruption investigation.
“It is about time,” said Cicero Township Committeeperson Blanca Vargas, who controls approximately 21 percent of the vote on the committee that will be formed to pick Tobolski’s replacement.
Ald. George Cardenas (12) blasted People's Gas for hiking residents' bills. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
Ald. Greg Mitchell (7).
Ald. Anthony Beale (9). [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
