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Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s bet that she could save the city at least $200 million in 2020 by refinancing $1.5 billion of the city’s debt paid off — and the deal will allow city officials to bank another $100 million to be used to fill the city’s projected budget gap in 2021, finance officials announced Friday.
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JAN 17, 2020
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JAN 17, 2020
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Plans to build the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park will have an “adverse impact” on Jackson Park, the Midway Plaisance and the city’s Park Boulevard System, all of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, according to a finalized federal review released Thursday.
A rendering of the proposed Obama Presidential Center. [City of Chicago]
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JAN 17, 2020
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A draft proposal aimed at preventing displacement in Woodlawn announced by the city’s Housing Department Thursday would leave out key elements of a community benefits agreement ordinance already endorsed by 29 aldermen.
The new proposal would apply only to census tracts within three-fifths of a mile of the Obama Presidential Center, as opposed to the proposed community benefits agreement which would apply to all properties within a two-mile radius of the center. While Woodlawn would be included in the plan, most of South Shore and Washington Park would not. -
Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned aldermen not to let a push to determine whether businesses that are owned by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Chicagoans face discrimination spiral into an debate that pitted gay Chicagoans against Black and Latino Chicagoans.
Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35), left, and Ald. Mike Rodriguez (22), right, flank Mayor Lori Lightfoot as she touts expanded protections for immigrants. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
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JAN 16, 2020
Cook County Board of Commissioners and county board President Toni Preckwinkle would expand their power over the independent board that runs the county’s $2.9 billion Health and Hospital System under a measure set to be introduced on Thursday, as commissioners continue to demand answers over the health system’s shaky financial future.
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JAN 15, 2020
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A proposed ordinance aimed at curbing gentrification along The 606's Bloomingdale Trail was reintroduced at City Council this week.
[Alisa Hauser/DNAinfo Chicago]It’s official: Chicago is hitting the pause button on demolitions along The 606’s Bloomingdale Trail in just a couple of weeks.
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JAN 15, 2020
UNLOCKEDMore than 300 cities and 55 countries around the world have banned single-use plastics in an effort to reduce the millions of pounds of plastic trash clogging our lakes and oceans.
Chicago could be next.
On Wednesday, Ald. Scott Waguespack (32) and Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza (10) introduced an ordinance that looks to significantly cut down how many plastic forks, plates and spoons are doled out by restaurants and other businesses in the city. -
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JAN 15, 2020
Four candidates vying to succeed Dorothy Brown as the next chief record-keeper of the county’s vast trove of court records pitched their plans on Tuesday to turn the page on an office mired in accusations of mismanagement and political hiring.
The four candidates for the Cook County Circuit Court clerk debate Tuesday. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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JAN 15, 2020
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A Republican vying to unseat State Rep. Allen Skillicorn (R-East Dundee) on Tuesday filed an ethics complaint with the state’s Legislative Inspector General, alleging Skillicorn falsely said he was present in the Capitol during the first half of the House’s last day in spring session in June even though he was walking in a parade in northern Illinois, and driving back down to Springfield.
State Rep. Allen Skillicorn (R-East Dundee) walks in the Harvard Milk Days parade on June 1, 2019. [Algonquin Township Republican Party Facebook page]
Ald. Ed Burke (14) listens at the May 29 City Council meeting. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
