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Chicago students will be out of class for the fourth day on Tuesday after a tense 24-hour period that featured Mayor Lori Lightfoot saying again that the city had no more money to offer teachers and asking teachers to go back to work during negotiations. Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey flatly rejected the mayor’s request.
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Ald. Howard Brookins, Jr. (21), right, jokes with Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Ald. Walter Burnett (27) while announcing new taxes on ride-hailing services. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
Ald. Howard Brookins, Jr. (21) has formally objected to a ruling from the Chicago Board of Ethics that banned aldermen who are also criminal defense attorneys from representing clients whose cases involve the Chicago Police Department.
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OCT 21, 2019
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Flanked by a bevy of beaming elected officials, Mayor Lori Lightfoot stood at the podium in her briefing room and gestured toward the traffic rumbling through the Loop on streets below.
Ride-hailing use in Chicago has grown 271 percent in recent years, officials said. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
“I bet there is not a person in the room or watching who has not been stuck in Downtown traffic,” Lightfoot said. “There is a clear correlation between increased congestion Chicago and the growth of ride-hailing companies.”
Ride-hailing use in Chicago has grown 271 percent in recent years, Lightfoot said, her voice dripping with incredulity.
As part of her 2020 budget proposal, Lightfoot will ask aldermen to put a premium on single rides that start or end in an area that includes the Central Business District, the Near North Side and West Loop.
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As members of the Chicago Teachers Union and the Service Employees International Union picketed Chicago schools and flooded Downtown on the first day of a strike designed to force Mayor Lori Lightfoot to agree to their demands on a host of issues including staffing, pay and class sizes, a key credit rating agency said a “reasonably short” work stoppages would not effect the district’s debt rating.
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OCT 17, 2019
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Plans call for a 100-unit, all-affordable apartment complex on city-owned land near the Logan Square CTA Blue Line station.
[Bickerdike Development]The Chicago Plan Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to approve a long-brewing proposal to build an all-affordable 100-unit apartment complex next to the Logan Square Blue Line station, knocking down its first major hurdle in a line of needed city approvals.
The proposal by Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation envisions a seven-story building on the site of a 1.43-acre city-owned parking lot at 2602-38 N. Emmett St. The commission also approved a measure on Thursday to sell the property to the developer for $1. -
Members of the Chicago Plan Commission are set on Thursday to consider a proposal for a 100-unit, all-affordable apartment complex on city-owned land near the Logan Square CTA Blue Line station. Plans call for a 100-unit, all-affordable apartment complex on city-owned land near the Logan Square CTA Blue Line station. [Bickerdike Development]
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot started her day at 8 a.m. Wednesday by announcing that negotiations between the city and the Chicago Teachers Union had broken down and that schools would be closed Thursday in anticipation of a strike.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot announces that schools will close Thursday after her administration fails to reach deal with the Chicago Teachers Union. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
By her third and final appearance in public at 6 p.m., Lightfoot had notched several victories — but huge challenges remained.
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OCT 16, 2019
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OCT 16, 2019
