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  • The Obama Presidential Center is set to move one step closer to winning final approval from Chicago officials, when the council’s Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards considers the massive $500 million project at its meeting set for 11 a.m. Tuesday.

  • Ald. Brendan Reilly’s (42) multi-year effort to beef up the financial reporting available to aldermen is up for discussion in Budget Committee today. Reilly filed a Rule 41 motion last week to discharge the ordinance, forcing a hearing today.

  • Finance Chair Ed Burke (14) held two of the committee’s biggest agenda items Monday – a sweeping measure aimed at protecting Chicagoans’ digital data and enshrining a recent mayoral executive order on pay history and equity into city law.

  • The council’s Finance Committee is set to consider an as-yet unreleased measure designed to address the gender pay gap at its meeting set for 10 a.m. Monday.

  • Correction (Aug 17, 2018): Some of our data used for Garry McCarthy's fundraising were included by mistake, over representing donations from Illinois and under-representing donations from Chicago and Illinois. We have updated our figures and the chart below.

    Lori Lightfoot jumped in the fundraising game on Friday, unloading at least $243,000 into her campaign fund just one day after the state received her committee filing.

  • With nine candidates already shaking hands and kissing babies in their push to deny Mayor Rahm Emanuel a third term, the leader of the City Council’s Progressive Caucus is still weighing his options. The Chicago Teachers’ Union is asking their members to make their voices heard in Springfield before the legislative session ends May 31 and Chicago officials prepare to take two more votes on the Obama Presidential Center.

  • A City Club luncheon titled “Civilian Police Oversight: A Bridge Too Far?” kicks off at 11:30 a.m. Monday and promises a spirited discussion about police reform, which has come to define the early stages of the campaign for mayor of Chicago.

  • Mayor Rahm Emanuel's effort to crack down on carjackings by stepping up the penalties for teens ran aground in the Illinois House after Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle came out in opposition to the effort. Former Chicago Police Board President Lori Lightfoot made her campaign for mayor official and city officials out 3,200 properties up for sale for $1 each.

  • The fate of the Obama Presidential Center was never in doubt Wednesday, as the Chicago Plan Commission unanimously gave the massive project the green light and sent it to aldermen for final approval after nearly seven hours of emotional testimony.



  • A clear sign that the municipal elections are approaching, the agenda for the council’s Committee on Transportation and the Public Way features nine honorary street sign proposals.

  • Motorists who double park Downtown will face a $300 fines, under a measure unanimously approved Wednesday by the council’s Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety.

  • After months of debate — and gallons of newspaper ink and millions of pixels — the debate over plans for the Obama Presidential Center moves to City Hall, with the Plan Commission scheduled to consider the massive proposal for Jackson Park Thursday. Plans for an affordable housing complex on the Far Northwest Side that created a firestorm of controversy will not move forward after being passed over by a state agency for tax credits, and Ald. Ariel Reyboras (30) said he is working to change the format of four planned hearings on proposals for police oversight after he acknowledge the first meeting did not go as planned.

    Ald. Ariel Reyboras (30) said changes are planned for hearings on police oversight proposals. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
  • Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle Wednesday said her opposition to the carjacking bill backed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel making its way through the Illinois General Assembly does not make her soft on crime.

  • Aldermen balked at Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s effort to encourage mobile businesses by creating a new permit for the firms on wheels, saying the measure could create a host of problems for Chicago businesses.

  • A coalition of community organizations demanding federal oversight of efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department released a 10-point plan Tuesday that group leaders said must be included in the final package approved by a judge.

    Immanuel Campbell, the lead plaintiff in a suit that seeks to reform the Chicago Police Department, said officers must be held accountable for their behavior. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]