Chicago News
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DEC 10, 2019
Cannabis cultivator Cresco Labs is scheduled to score zoning approval on Tuesday to move its Medmar Lakeview dispensary into the heart of Wrigleyville, clearing a regulatory hurdle that aldermen added to cannabis zoning rules in order to tighten their control over the approval process.
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Candidates will hope the odds are ever in their favor as a lottery set for 10 a.m. Monday will determine who is first — and last — on the March 17 primary ballot.
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Chicago ethics officials said they are working to address the anxiety coursing through many of Chicago’s nonprofit organizations, who must register as lobbyists starting Jan. 1 as part of an ethics reform package pushed through by Mayor Lori Lightfoot takes effect.
Chicago Board of Ethics Chair William Conlon said objections lodged by some groups “raised some good questions” the board will attempt to resolve. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
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DEC 06, 2019
A bonanza of local elected officials, second-time candidates and relative unknowns threw their names into a crowded race to fill three contested seats on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago — and that was all before former Cook County board President Todd Stroger turned in his signatures minutes before Monday’s filing deadline.
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District candidates, from left: Frank Avila, Cam Davis, Kimberly Neely Du Buclet and Eira Corral Sepúlveda. [Submitted photos]
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Gov. JB Pritzker and his cannabis czar Toi Hutchinson on Wednesday defended the slow, deliberate rollout of Illinois’ cannabis legalization law — including the fact that existing medical cannabis companies received the first recreational licenses.
Gov. JB Pritzker signs SB 1557, a trailer bill for Illinois’ cannabis legalization program, Wednesday at Cabrini Green Legal Aid’s downtown offices, surrounded by bill sponsors, advisers and stakeholders. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line]
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Aldermen unanimously voted on Wednesday to advance a measure that would ban them from working as lobbyists to press other elected officials on city-related matters.
Chicago Board pf Ethics Executive Director Steve Berlin urged aldermen to approve the proposed ban. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
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Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday appointed four members to the Joint Commission on Ethics and Lobbying Reform — a body created during the legislature’s Fall Veto Session and charged with recommending changes to require more transparency and disclosure for both lawmakers and lobbyists in Springfield.
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DEC 05, 2019
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DEC 04, 2019
The races that will shape the leadership of the Cook County Democratic Party in March will serve to mark the ultimate end of the careers of several longtime Chicago politicians, while ushering in at least three members of the Chicago chapter of Democratic Socialists of America to the party leadership.
