Chicago News
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Cook County Assessor candidate Andrea Raila, as promised, appealed the Cook County Electoral Board's decision to remove her from the ballot to the Circuit Court on Tuesday.
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City Council’s Finance Committee meets at 10:00 a.m. today for one agenda item - a hearing on sexual harassment at the Ford Motor Plant on the city’s South Side. The resolution is sponsored by Ald. Ed Burke (14), Ald. Marge Laurino (39), Ald. Carrie Austin (34), Ald. Michelle Harris (8) and City Clerk Anna Valencia.
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An independent study commissioned to examine the fairness in Cook County’s property tax assessment system came to an unsurprising conclusion: the system is more variable and regressive than industry standards, leading to low-value homeowners paying more, and high-value homeowners paying less.
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Englewood’s new high school that would consolidate student populations from four under-enrolled South Side schools passed the Chicago Plan Commission easily Thursday, as did another slew of West Loop projects and two new transit oriented developments.
Sterling Bay's new West Loop properties at the site of the former Coyne College will generate millions for the city's Neighborhood Opportunity Fund. Photo: Chicago Department of Planning and Development.
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The Chicago Plan Commission meets at 10:00 a.m. today to consider a cluster of zoning changes in the 27th Ward, and two lakefront developments: a practice facility for Loyola athletes, and construction of the new Englewood high school in Ald. Roderick Sawyer’s (6) ward serve students from Harper, Hope, Robeson and TEAM Englewood high schools.
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Two attorneys made their case to the Cook County electoral board Tuesday afternoon–one warning if the board did not uphold a hearing officer’s recommendation and remove Assessor candidate Andrea Raila from the ballot, electoral chaos would ensue. The other said Raila’s removal would disenfranchise hundreds of voters who signed her petitions.
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The March 20 primary is 35 days away - plenty of time to bombard constituents doors and inboxes. Here are the latest scans and pictures we’ve received. Send us yours at [email protected]. Kindly cover your home address, but let us know what neighborhood you’re sending from.
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FEB 12, 2018
Days before the Electoral Board was set to rule on whether she would be kicked off the ballot, Andrea Raila’s attorney, Frank Avila, shared an affidavit alleging that the hearing officer in Raila’s case, Christopher J. Agrella, had a prior relationship with her challenger, Fritz Kaegi. Avila suggested that tie, revealed this week, was a conflict that should have been disclosed and might have led to bias in the case. Both Kaegi’s campaign and Agrella both vehemently denied the accusations.
