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We Are Retail: Yhana Boba
Yhana Boba Cafe brings a fresh and flavorful twist to Lake County’s retail scene. Owned by Anahy Hernandez, the cafe blends traditional boba tea with Latin-inspired flavors like Chamoy, Tajín, horchata, and mangonada.
The café is a welcoming community space where friends and families can gather and enjoy something new. Stop by Yhana Boba Cafe in Grayslake for a delicious drink today.
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SEP 03, 2026
Toni Brooks is pictured. [Fred Brown Photography]
A U.S. military veteran running in the increasingly crowded race for Chicago mayor says she wants to bust open the city’s books to find ways to reallocate wasteful and unnecessary spending to programs more beneficial to Chicagoans.
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SEP 02, 2026
Ald. Maria Hadden (49) is pictured at a City Council meeting on April 7, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The City Council Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy on Tuesday approved an ordinance to include data centers in the city’s energy benchmarking program for large buildings.
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SEP 01, 2026
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Outgoing BACP Comm. Ivan Capifali is pictured. [City of Chicago]
Chicago is losing its head of the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP), the latest member of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration to exit in the last couple of months.
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AUG 28, 2026
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Ald. Maria Hadden (49) is pictured at a City Council meeting on April 7, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The City Council Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy on Tuesday will consider an ordinance that would remove an exemption in city code that excludes data centers from the city’s program that intakes and reports on large buildings’ energy use.
The environment committee will meet at 10 a.m. in council chambers.
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AUG 27, 2026
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Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a City Council meeting on April 15, 2026. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The mayor signed an executive order Wednesday to establish new ethics and anti-corruption standards for companies that seek to hold city contracts.
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AUG 26, 2026
Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a City Council meeting on March 12, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday announced a plan to close a shortfall in the 2026 budget without resorting to layoffs.
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AUG 25, 2026
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas appears at a budget hearing in October 2023. [Livestream]
An analysis from the Cook County Treasurer’s Office showed that homeowners faced more of an increase in their property taxes this year compared to businesses and that the entire property tax levy increased beyond the rate of inflation.
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AUG 24, 2026
A rendering of McLaurin Development Partners' development in Bronzeville. [Department of Planning and Development]
The Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday approved plans for the redevelopment of the site of the closed Ford City Mall, a mixed-use development near Rate Field in Bronzeville and a condominium building in the West Loop.
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Chicago City Hall is pictured. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
Following a change to how the city collects taxes on alcoholic beverages purchased at liquor stores and other packaged goods licensees, Chicago reported a more than $4 million drop in the amount of liquor tax revenue remitted by businesses through July.
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AUG 20, 2026
A rendering of McLaurin Development Partners' development in Bronzeville. [Department of Planning and Development]
The Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday will consider plans for the redevelopment of the site of the shuttered Ford City Mall, a mixed-use development near Rate Field and a downtown condominium building.
The plan commission will meet at 10 a.m. in Room 1103 at City Hall.
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AUG 19, 2026
The seal of the Forest Preserves of Cook County.
The Forest Preserves of Cook County said its facilities and sites plan to remain “open and operational” even amid a union strike.
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AUG 18, 2026
Mayor Brandon Johnson attends a rally in Edgewater in support of the Protecting Renters Ordinance on Aug. 16, 2026. [Livestream]
The mayor and allies held a lakefront rally on the Far North Side Sunday to urge support for a proposed overhaul of the city’s rental housing code that has sat in the City Council’s housing committee for almost two months.
The rally kicked off an expected canvassing effort to build grassroots support for the housing proposal.
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AUG 17, 2026
The Chicago Community Justice Foundation center project at 3845 W. North Ave. is pictured. [Chicago Department of Planning and Development]
The Chicago Community Development Commission last week recommended approval of the allocation of millions in tax increment financing (TIF) funds to support a shared nonprofit resource center in Humboldt Park and a revitalized industrial laundromat in Lawndale.
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AUG 14, 2026
City Hall is pictured. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released an investigation that concluded the Chicago Community Catalyst Fund has been insufficiently utilized and failed to regularly report its activities just days after Chicago Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin said she intended to dissolve it.
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Businessman Willie Wilson is pictured. [Campaign photo]
Businessman and philanthropist Willie Wilson officially announced his fourth bid for Chicago mayor this week.
