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The campaign to hike the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2021 — four years before the rest of the state — will take center stage at City Hall Tuesday.
Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza (10) urges the crowd to call the mayor and their aldermen and urge them to support the plan to hike the minimum wage to $15 by 2021. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s proposal to block the city from suspending driver’s licenses over unpaid parking tickets while reducing penalties and offering debt relief to the city’s poor is one step away from approval, despite concerns from aldermen that the $15 million price tag is too steep.
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The Illinois Gaming Board urged state lawmakers Monday to tweak legislation permitting a Chicago casino — but its members did not say how — or when — the law should be changed.
The Illinois Gaming Board declined to make any suggestions on how to change the law permitting a Chicago casino. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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SEP 16, 2019
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A rendering of the proposed Lincoln Yards. [Department of Planning and Development]
A judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit aiming to block the $1.4 billion subsidy the city approved for the massive Lincoln Yards development, dealing a setback to groups looking to prevent the controversial 23-year financing agreement from taking effect.
The groups Grassroots Collaborative and Raise Your Hand had alleged in their April complaint that the city approved the Cortland/Chicago River tax increment financing district in a “racially and ethnically discriminatory manner” because it dedicated public resources to an already-wealthy part of the city. -
Aldermen are set to consider Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s proposal to block the city from suspending driver’s licenses over unpaid parking tickets while reducing penalties and offering debt relief to the city’s poor.
Increasing the price of sticker tickets came at a devastating cost for thousands of Chicago’s poorest residents. [Flickr/Dan X. O'Neil]
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Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans beat back a challenge to his job overseeing the county’s 400 judges, tacking another three-year term onto his already record-length tenure in the office.
Newly re-elected Chief Judge Tim Evans addresses reporters. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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SEP 13, 2019
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Amid concerns that Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration had not done enough to reach out to neighborhood groups, aldermen deferred the mayor’s first proposal to increase the supply of much-needed affordable housing by partnering with the Chicago Community Land Trust.
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Aldermen advanced Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s proposal to allow the details of high-profile investigations — such as that of the Laquan McDonald shooting — to be released to the public.
Ald. Michele Smith (43) said the measure “draws a very good line.” [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
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SEP 12, 2019
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Organizers who oppose the city's April 10 decision to give $1.3 billion in tax subsidies to Lincoln Yards developer Sterling Bay gather outside Judge Neil Cohen's courtroom on Wednesday. [Hannah Alani/Block Club Chicago]
A Cook County judge on Wednesday indicated he didn’t like the city’s deal to give $1.3 billion in tax increment financing dollars for the Lincoln Yards project, but also said a lawsuit trying to block the deal might not pass legal muster.
Circuit Court Judge Neil Cohen spent nearly two hours on Tuesday grilling attorneys for a grassroots coalition that’s suing the city over the taxpayer-funded subsidy, setting up a decision over whether the group’s lawsuit may go to trial.
Mariyana Spyropoulos [Submitted]
Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Tim Evans, right, and challenger Lorna Propes. [Submitted]
