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Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s first attempt to make good on her signature campaign promise and root out corruption at City Hall advanced Wednesday with the unanimous support of the Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight.
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City officials spent $272 million to create, improve and preserve 8,539 apartments and homes in 2018, according to the final report on Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration’s efforts to bolster affordable housing in Chicago.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s announcement Wednesday that she had asked a consultant to study the feasibility of building Chicago’s casino at one of five locations on the South or West sides was immediately rejected by 3rd Ward Ald. Pat Dowell and 4th Ward Ald. Sophia King.
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The newly created Committee on Ethics and Good Government will meet for the first time Wednesday to weigh Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s initial attempt to make good on her signature campaign promise and root out corruption at City Hall.
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JUL 17, 2019
A tax break worth $1.2 million designed to help Greyhound relocate its bus maintenance facility from Goose Island to Canaryville narrowly advanced Tuesday amid concerns from several aldermen that the bus giant does not need city assistance.
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When Mayor Lori Lightfoot halted the installation of water meters in Chicago homes after city officials found elevated levels of lead in more than one in five metered homes they tested, she urged worried residents to test their water.
The lead testing kit Chicago residents can request. [City of Chicago]
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Twenty-four years ago, Chicago’s 1995 heat wave claimed the lives of more than 700 people, and a subsequent string of extremely hot days in July of 1999 killed another 80 people — most on the city’s South and West sides.
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An effort by the Chicago Police Department to create a new database to keep track of gang members is a “nonstarter” because it is based on flawed data, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Friday.
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Seven of the 10 companies picked to test out electric scooters in Chicago have been cited by city officials for a variety of violations — one month into a four-month pilot program.
[Credit: Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University.]
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday declined to sign an executive order banning the Chicago Police Department from working with federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump is set to order mass deportation raids this weekend.
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A proposal designed to scare off drag racers eager to burn rubber along Lower Wacker Drive for social media glory with the threat of “astronomical fines” got the green light from aldermen Thursday.
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Downtown Ald. Brendan Reilly (42) is taking aim once again at one of his biggest targets: the street racers who flock to Lower Wacker Drive to burn rubber late at night — often with onlookers recording videos for social media.
Cars line up on Lower Wacker during a drag race. [DNAinfo Chicago]
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An otherwise routine Zoning Committee meeting Tuesday ushered in the start of a new era for the Chicago City Council — the age of live-streaming.
The CAN-TV camera at Tuesday's Zoning Committee meeting. [Heather Cherone/The Daily Line]
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Participation in a pension buyout program by members of the State Employees Retirement System has so far only saved the state $20 million, in part because of slow rollouts and unexpectedly low participation for teachers.
The program had been expected to save the state $400 million in its first year.
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Elected officials who use social media to communicate with constituents and city residents are banned from blocking people or deleting critical comments, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, upholding a lower court ruling used by the Chicago Board of Ethics to regulate how aldermen use Facebook and Twitter.
