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Scrap metal facility General Iron will be allowed to continue to operate at night near the North Branch of the Chicago River after an effort by Ald. Brian Hopkins (2) to revoke the firm’s permit failed Tuesday.
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A 75-unit complex in Jefferson Park at the heart of the furious debate over affordable housing could take another step forward Wednesday.
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A discussion around two new appointments to Chicago’s Low Income Housing Trust Fund board expanded Tuesday to include needed changes to the city’s next five-year affordable housing plan, the affordable requirements ordinance and direct city payments intended to help make rent more affordable for families in all of Chicago’s neighborhoods.
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SEP 19, 2018
Correction: A previous version of this story misstated Lanetta Haynes Turner's salary as interim chief of staff as $186,000 annually. It is $154,000.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s future came into sharper focus with the news that he will write a book, set to be published in 2020, about the shift of power away from gridlocked state and federal governments and toward cities. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced late Tuesday that her chief of staff had stepped down for personal reasons.
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Aldermen reluctantly approved a plan Monday to forgive a $9 million loan and allow 289 apartments home to low- and moderate-income Chicagoans to be sold.
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The Committee on Housing and Real Estate will consider two appointments to the city’s Low-Income Housing Trust Fund Board at its meeting set for 10 a.m. Tuesday.
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Two aldermen successfully pressured the City Council to schedule a hearing on the discovery that the water Chicagoans drink and bathe in might be tainted with lead.
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Aldermen endured full slate of committee meetings Monday, with another full day of hearings set for Tuesday at City Hall.
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Aldermen are set to consider whether to approve an agreement to pay $16 million to the family of Bettie Jones, the woman shot dead by an officer who fired at a teenager carrying a baseball bat in December 2015.
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Against the backdrop of several more candidates filing to run against them, aldermen have a full slate of committee meetings set for Monday, as they prepare for Thursday’s full City Council meeting — which will be held one day later than usual because of Yom Kippur.
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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.
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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.
