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Two aldermen moved to force the City Council to hold a hearing on the discovery that the water Chicagoans drink and bathe in might be tainted with lead.
The testing kit Chicago residents can request. [City of Chicago] -
Ald. Brian Hopkins (2) invoked a rarely-used rule to force a vote that could block scrap metal facility General Iron from operating at night near the North Branch of the Chicago River.
General Iron's North Side facility is scheduled to close. [2nd Ward Office] -
A 75-unit complex in Jefferson Park at the heart of the furious debate over affordable housing on the Far Northwest Side advanced Thursday as the Plan Commission gave the project the green light.
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While the Plan Commission conducted a marathon meeting that lasted nearly six hours, aldermen raced through three committee meetings, putting off a vote on a measure designed to tighten the regulations on taxi and ride-hailing firms.
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On the same day Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Chicago Police Department Supt. Eddie Johnson submitted the final consent decree designed to reform the Chicago Police, the attorney general’s office released the names and applications of nine different firms competing to become the independent monitor tasked with overseeing the reforms.
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The battle over affordable housing on the Far Northwest Side will once again take center stage at City Hall Wednesday, as the Plan Commission is set to consider a 75-unit complex in Jefferson Park.
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A Wicker Park community center and soup kitchen will be transformed into 16 apartments under a plan endorsed Wednesday by the City Council’s Zoning Committee.
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Aldermen are set to consider a measure that would require taxi companies and ride-hailing services to report violent incidents involving their drivers to city officials every three months.
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The familiar clip-clop of hooves will continue to echo Downtown — at least for now — as a measure to ban horse-drawn carriages stalled Wednesday in the City Council’s License Committee in the face of opposition from chairwoman Emma Mitts (37).
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed 47th Ward Ald. Ameya Pawar’s push to study what a universal basic income will mean for Chicago. Former Gov. Pat Quinn vowed to go to court after the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners affirmed a ruling by a hearing officer that voters should not get a chance to decide whether Chicago mayors should be limited to two terms.
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The race to replace Mayor Rahm Emanuel began take shape Wednesday with U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez’ announcement that he will not be a candidate.
Preckwinkle consults with her Chief of Staff, John Keller, at a Cook County Board meeting on September 12, 2018.
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Children younger than 13 would no longer be detained at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center under a measure that cleared the county’s Criminal Justice committee Tuesday.
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A Wicker Park community center and soup kitchen would be transformed into 16 apartments under a plan set to be considered Wednesday by the City Council’s Zoning Committee.
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For weeks, animal-rights activists have made sure to be at City Hall early on days when the City Council is scheduled to meet in order to make a public plea to aldermen to ban horse-drawn carriages.
A carriage from the now-shuttered Noble Horse stables rumbles down Wells Street in 2011. [Flickr/David B. Gleason] -
Ald. Brian Hopkins (2) is set to launch a push to create a registry of Chicago murals, after it ran into a brick wall at last month’s meeting of the Zoning Committee failed to advance Thursday, after aldermen agreed the plan designed to prevent graffiti-removal crews from wiping them out could backfire. Two new candidates for the City Council surfaced, and a commissioner weighed in on what Toni Preckwinkle would be like as mayor.
