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Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin will hold four town hall meetings during the next several weeks as part of an effort to make the little-known office a resource for Chicagoans struggling to launch businesses or land investors.
Breaking from the behind-the-scenes path taken by her predecessors, Conyears-Ervin said she is determined to leverage her control of the city’s approximately $9 billion investment portfolio to help boost Chicago’s economically struggling communities by publicly holding the financial institutions the city does business with “accountable.” -
Cook County leaders have a message for high schoolers across the region: We want your help designing a new flag to fly over our public buildings.
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State Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado (D-Chicago) took her seat in the Illinois House of Representatives on Wednesday, hopeful that the storm of controversy that greeted her appointment has passed — even as Gov. JB Pritzker vowed to crack down on the kind of corruption that prompted her appointment.
Eva-Dina Delgago addresses Chicago elected officials as she asks to be appointed to replace former State. Rep. Luis Arroyo. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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Scooters will return to Chicago’s streets this summer — but only as part of a second pilot program after city officials concluded that the first test run of the two-wheelers ended with “mixed results.”
Jump was one of 10 scooter firms that participated in the pilot program. [Jump]
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Chicago aldermen put off considering a measure calling for the city to take the first step toward decriminalizing magic mushrooms and peyote.
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Marchers in support of a CBA ordinance to protect against Obama Center-related displacement head down Stony Island Avenue on Sept. 5.
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A city-crafted proposal designed to prevent longtime residents from being pushed out of gentrifying parts of Woodlawn near the planned Obama Presidential Center does not go far enough, a coalition of community advocates said Tuesday.
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Voters eager to cast an early ballot in the Democratic presidential primary and a slew of Cook County races may have to wait, elections officials said Tuesday.
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JAN 29, 2020
Former State Sen. Martin Sandoval (D-Chicago) promised to “go balls to the walls” to protect the interests of a red-light camera company in exchange for $5,000 in monthly bribes, according to a plea agreement Sandoval signed as part of a guilty plea he entered on Tuesday.
“I’m ashamed, and I’m sorry. I want to apologize to the people of Illinois, to my constituents," said former State Sen. Martin Sandoval, (D-Chicago). [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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Less than a month after Illinois lawmakers legalized marijuana, Chicago aldermen are scheduled to weigh whether to take the first step toward decriminalizing magic mushrooms and peyote.
Ald. Brian Hopkins (2) addresses a community meeting. [Block Club Chicago]
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JAN 28, 2020
Chicago voters on March 17 will come face-to-face with more than 5,000 new voting machines and ballot tabulators ordered as part of an effort to ensure votes are counted accurately and free of outside interference, city election officials announced on Monday.
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JAN 27, 2020
Members of more than 60 Cook County boards and commissions would be banned from contracting with the county under a sweeping set of new ethics rules dismissed by county board President Toni Preckwinkle as a “political stunt.”
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JAN 27, 2020
Ald. Anthony Beale (9) collected enough valid signatures to appear on the March 17 ballot for Democratic committeeperson in his Far South Side ward, election officials ruled on Friday in their final eligibility decision for the 2020 primary election cycle.
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JAN 24, 2020
A rendering shows what a 20-story hotel at 800 W. Lake St. could look like.
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Fulton Market needs a new CTA station to cope with the flood of new residents and workers unleashed by the neighborhood’s development boom, Ald. Walter Burnett (27) said on Thursday.
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An exclusive deal allowing Lyft to operate the city’s Divvy bicycle-sharing system — inked at former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s final City Council meeting in April — does not amount to a “backroom monopoly” that improperly “locks out” competitors, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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Legislation that would put an elected board of Chicago residents in charge of the Chicago Police Department is once again in the spotlight at City Hall, with negotiations underway that could lead to a vote as soon as next month.
