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OCT 22, 2019
City leaders on Monday painted the broad strokes of a plan to channel the city’s array of neighborhood development funds into a targeted set of commercial districts on the South and West sides where neighbors have already etched out plans.
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OCT 22, 2019
A proposal to ask voters for permission to raise their taxes will not come before the Board of the Forest Preserves Districts of Cook County on Tuesday, leaving the body one last chance in November to put the question on the March primary ballot.
Hikers along the North Branch Trail. [Alex Nitkin/The Daily Line]
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The city will save $200 million, wiping out a quarter of the deficit facing officials in 2020, by refinancing $1.3 billion of the city’s debt — in part by using a technique pioneered by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, finance officials announced Monday.
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Chicago students will be out of class for the fourth day on Tuesday after a tense 24-hour period that featured Mayor Lori Lightfoot saying again that the city had no more money to offer teachers and asking teachers to go back to work during negotiations. Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey flatly rejected the mayor’s request.
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Ald. Howard Brookins, Jr. (21), right, jokes with Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Ald. Walter Burnett (27) while announcing new taxes on ride-hailing services. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
Ald. Howard Brookins, Jr. (21) has formally objected to a ruling from the Chicago Board of Ethics that banned aldermen who are also criminal defense attorneys from representing clients whose cases involve the Chicago Police Department.
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OCT 21, 2019
A county rulemaking body is set on Monday to send Cook County Commissioners tweaks to the fine print of a controversial housing ordinance, setting the stage for the new law to take effect without a series of concessions that landlord groups proposed.
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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx raised more than $500,000 between July and September this year, making her the best-funded candidate running in a any countywide race next year, according to third-quarter election filings.
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Flanked by a bevy of beaming elected officials, Mayor Lori Lightfoot stood at the podium in her briefing room and gestured toward the traffic rumbling through the Loop on streets below.
Ride-hailing use in Chicago has grown 271 percent in recent years, officials said. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
“I bet there is not a person in the room or watching who has not been stuck in Downtown traffic,” Lightfoot said. “There is a clear correlation between increased congestion Chicago and the growth of ride-hailing companies.”
Ride-hailing use in Chicago has grown 271 percent in recent years, Lightfoot said, her voice dripping with incredulity.
As part of her 2020 budget proposal, Lightfoot will ask aldermen to put a premium on single rides that start or end in an area that includes the Central Business District, the Near North Side and West Loop.
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The strike by the Chicago Teachers Union and support staff workers stretched into a third day of missed classes for 300,000 Chicago Public School students on Monday, even as both sides reported some progress on key issues.
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As members of the Chicago Teachers Union and the Service Employees International Union picketed Chicago schools and flooded Downtown on the first day of a strike designed to force Mayor Lori Lightfoot to agree to their demands on a host of issues including staffing, pay and class sizes, a key credit rating agency said a “reasonably short” work stoppages would not effect the district’s debt rating.
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Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin is set to call on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to jumpstart the city’s 3-year-old $100 million Catalyst investment fund and use it to breathe new life into the South and West sides of Chicago and help fight crime and blight.
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OCT 17, 2019
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Plans call for a 100-unit, all-affordable apartment complex on city-owned land near the Logan Square CTA Blue Line station.
[Bickerdike Development]The Chicago Plan Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to approve a long-brewing proposal to build an all-affordable 100-unit apartment complex next to the Logan Square Blue Line station, knocking down its first major hurdle in a line of needed city approvals.
The proposal by Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation envisions a seven-story building on the site of a 1.43-acre city-owned parking lot at 2602-38 N. Emmett St. The commission also approved a measure on Thursday to sell the property to the developer for $1. -
Members of the Chicago Plan Commission are set on Thursday to consider a proposal for a 100-unit, all-affordable apartment complex on city-owned land near the Logan Square CTA Blue Line station. Plans call for a 100-unit, all-affordable apartment complex on city-owned land near the Logan Square CTA Blue Line station. [Bickerdike Development]
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Staffers for an unidentified Chicago aldermen went to great lengths to avoid forcing their boss to pay a fine for letting the registration on their ward vehicle expire, according to the city’s watchdog.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot started her day at 8 a.m. Wednesday by announcing that negotiations between the city and the Chicago Teachers Union had broken down and that schools would be closed Thursday in anticipation of a strike.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot announces that schools will close Thursday after her administration fails to reach deal with the Chicago Teachers Union. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
By her third and final appearance in public at 6 p.m., Lightfoot had notched several victories — but huge challenges remained.
