Chicago News
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The City of Chicago has no choice but to pay $20 million to the families of two men killed when an off-duty Chicago Police Officer smashed into the the back of the men’s disabled car on the side of the Dan Ryan Expressway, aldermen agreed Monday. That officer had approximately four times the legal limit of alcohol in his system, and the crash trapped two men in the burning car.
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The council’s Committee on Special Events, Cultural Affairs and Recreation agreed to spend $500,000 of developer-generated fees to build a new orchard in East Garfield Park. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District will chip in another $500,000 in grant funds to bring fruit and nut trees to the neighborhood.
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The City Council’s Committee on Finance has a packed agenda for its meeting set to start at 10 a.m. Monday, including a $147 million tax break for the developers of the Old Main Post Office, a $20 million settlement for the families of two men killed in a car crash by drunken off-duty police detective Joseph Frugoli and a package of laws designed to change the way the city deals with stray or abandoned animals.
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On the same day City Council passed an ordinance expanding sexual harassment protections to constituents, lobbyists and business owners that come in contact with elected officials, Ald. Pat O’Connor (40) suggested the state party should wait until after the primary to decide whether House Speaker Mike Madigan should step down as its head.
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Eight businesses won multi-year rights to set up shop along Chicago’s riverwalk Thursday. The license agreements approved by City Council’s Housing and Real Estate Committee will help the city pay back a 35-year, $99 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance Innovation Act loan from the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded in 2013. But some nearby residents worried the city was cementing a deal with a bad neighbor.
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After commissioners raised a ruckus over the Cook County Health and Hospitals System’s uncollected bills during last year’s budget negotiations, the system put out a request for proposals to sell its accounts receivables. The due date, Feb. 16, came and went with no takers.'
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Four South Side aldermen – one a committeeman – gathered to endorse Frederick “Fritz” Kaegi for Assessor Wednesday afternoon. Ald. Danny Solis (25), Ald. Toni Foulkes (16), Ald. Rick Muñoz (22), and Ald. George Cardenas (12) cited the impact unfair assessments have on their communities, including declining property values, bankruptcy and foreclosures.
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Ald. Marty Quinn (13) was the center of attention Wednesday morning at City Hall, as reporters clustered outside the meeting of the Committee on License and Consumer Protection hoping to ask him about the imbruglia that has swamped Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and led to calls for his resignation as the head of the Illinois Democratic Party.
