Chicago News
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Ald. Daniel La Spata (1) chairs the Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The City Council’s Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety will meet Wednesday and hold a hearing on how the city can make its road safer for cyclists, and the Committee on Transportation and Public Way will consider a resubdivision request in the 30th Ward.
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Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36) chairs the Committee on Economic, Capital and Technology Development. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The City Council Committee on Economic, Capital and Technology Development will meet at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday and consider multiple appointments, including confirming Mayor Brandon Johnson’s new planning commissioner.
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An alderperson dropped out of his race to keep his position as the Democratic Party’s local ward boss, and another alderperson made the decision to try to retain his longtime ward committeeperson role with a write-in campaign. Meanwhile, the City Council education committee is set to hold a hearing on City Colleges of Chicago programming.
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A file photo of voting booths.
A coalition of real estate industry groups and other commercial groups filed a lawsuit Friday morning against the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners alleging the city’s Bring Chicago Home ballot question is legally invalid in a few ways.
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The Chicago Police emblem is pictured at the Public Safety Headquarters in this file photo.
Edwin Benn, the independent arbitrator who last year in a ruling opened the door for Chicago police officers to have serious disciplinary decisions decided in private instead of in front of the Chicago Police Board, issued a ruling Thursday that upheld his original decision after the City Council voted to kick the issue back to him last month.
Last month, the City Council voted 33-17 to reject a portion of a new contract between the city and Chicago chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police that would allow officers to have serious disciplinary cases decided through arbitration instead of the Police Board.
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CDOT Comm. Tom Carney speaks during a ribbon-cutting for pedestrian and bike safety improvements to Central Park Avenue in Garfield Park in December 2023. [CDOT]
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s appointment of a new Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) commissioner last month was met with disappointment by some groups that had called for a transformative leader to tackle the myriad transportation challenges the city faces.
The mayor announced in late December that Tom Carney, who had been serving as acting commissioner since the departure of Gia Biagi in August, would move into the CDOT commissioner role permanently, though his appointment still needs to be approved by City Council.
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Chicago Department of Housing Comm. Lissette Castañeda [Courtesy of Mayor's Press Office]
Mayor Brandon Johnson made numerous appointments to administrative leadership roles last month, including to the city’s housing department.
The appointment of a new housing commissioner comes as the mayor’s office launches a new initiative aimed at reducing the red tape that can slow new developments and as the city may have new revenue available soon to fight homelessness if voters approve an increase to the real estate transfer tax for high-end properties.
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Chicago's skyline is pictured in this file photo.
The city and its partner organizations released the findings of a heat disparity study last month, and the results helped visualize how different communities across Chicago experience heat because of their geographic surroundings and infrastructure.
Chicago was one of 18 communities selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) back in April to participate in the agency’s annual urban heat island mapping program, a project to record and track heat disparities across geographic areas in municipalities. NOAA has run the project, which is funded through the NOAA Climate Program Office, since 2017.
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Onni Fulton Market is pictured in this post from the company's Instagram. [@onnifultonmarket on Instagram]
The Chicago Plan Commission held its final meeting of the year Thursday and approved a proposed amendment to a Fulton Market planned development and heard a presentation on the next phase of a previously approved planned development in Garfield Ridge.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson attends a ribbon-cutting for the new Maria Elena Sifuentes Apartments in Albany Park on Dec. 20, 2023. [Chicago Department of Housing]
The city marked the completion of a new affordable housing complex in Albany Park on Wednesday — the Maria Elena Sifuentes Apartments, located at 3559 W. Lawrence Ave. The complex is a six-story, mixed-use development with most of the residential units designated as affordable housing.
The $26 million project received substantial assistance from the city after it was selected in the Department of Housing’s 2019 funding round.
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The Cook County flag flies over the county government building in downtown Chicago. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The Cook County President’s Office on Thursday will release its second Policy Roadmap, an overarching strategic plan that will guide the legislative and administrative actions of the Offices Under the President for the next four years.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson is pictured during a City Council meeting in September 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The city government continued to defend its actions Tuesday regarding the death of a 5-year-old migrant boy following a medical emergency at a temporary shelter at 2241 S. Halsted St. in Pilsen Sunday.
Though other children and teens from the same shelter were reportedly hospitalized, according to the Chicago Fire Department, the city Tuesday denied the incidents were related to the boy’s death.