Chicago News
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JAN 08, 2020
Gia Biagi teased out plans on Tuesday to preserve the city’s controversial red light camera program, boost neighborhood bike and bus infrastructure, and design public spaces to curb violence during a public audition to be permanently installed as Chicago’s top transportation chief.
Gia Biagi, Mayor Lori Lightfoot's pick to lead the Chicago Department of Transportation, fields questions from reporters. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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JAN 07, 2020
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JAN 07, 2020
Attorneys Bob Fioretti urge elections officials to kick State's Attorney Kim Foxx off the ballot. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
Lawyers for former Ald. Bob Fioretti (2) said on Monday that petitions to re-elect Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx showed a “pattern of fraud” in a longshot challenge to get the incumbent thrown off the ballot before she faces Fioretti and two other Democratic challengers in the March 17 primary.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot tapped approximately equal numbers of men and women to serve on citywide boards and commissions and to head up city departments in 2019, according to an analysis by The Daily Line.
Lightfoot made 46 appointments that must be confirmed by aldermen between her inauguration in May and the final City Council meeting of 2019. They were nearly equally divided between white appointees and people of color.
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JAN 03, 2020
With the holiday season over, elections officials began sorting through dozens of challenges that will determine who makes the March 17 primary ballot.
Jacob Meister, right, consults with his attorney during a Thursday hearing on his challenge of the petitions filed by Michael Cabonargi in the Cook County Circuit Court Clerk race. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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JAN 03, 2020
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Chicago will see a raft of new ethics laws take effect at the start of 2020, as federal investigations shadow City Hall. But nonprofit organizations will get a three-month reprieve before new rules requiring them to register as lobbyists take effect amid an outcry about the impact of the new regulations.
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JAN 02, 2020
While most people spent the last days of 2019 preparing for holiday celebrations or buying last-minute gifts, Rosa Escareno, the commissioner of the city’s department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection, had a warning for Chicago’s nascent legal pot industry.
The owners of the MOCA Modern Cannabis dispensary ask the city's Zoning Board of Appeals for a permit for a new dispensary. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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JAN 02, 2020
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DEC 20, 2019
County leaders will launch a working group next year to find an answer to the question that roiled city and state government this week: did the state’s cannabis legalization law go far enough to help the people who have been harmed by the War on Drugs?
Cook County Board Board President Toni Preckwinkle looks on as Comm. Bill Lowry discusses plans to study the legalization of marijuana. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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DEC 20, 2019
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Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi. [A.D. Quig/The Daily Line]
Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi will relax requirements for next year’s property tax appeals process after his staffers rebuffed an overwhelming majority of the thousands of property owners who claimed the rookie assessor had over-valued their buildings.
Kaegi hit homeowners and landlords in Cook County’s 13 north-suburban townships with a double-punch this year when his valuations team hiked their assessments — sometimes more than doubling them — and then rejected most of their pleas for reductions. Kaegi’s office delivered its last round of appeals decisions on Dec. 7.
