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The Chicago Plan Commission has a crowded agenda for its meeting set to start at 10 a.m., including a new building across from People’s Gas Training Facility on the Southwest Side, the redevelopment of an old Salvation Army Center into near West Side apartments, and a new development in the North Branch Industrial Corridor.
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With a plan to rename Balbo Drive for investigative journalist Ida B. Wells stalled, Ald. Sophia King (4) said she was open to renaming another major Chicago street for the Civil Rights icon — as long as it was prominent enough to merit bearing Wells’ name.
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A familiar face will return to City Hall to run the city’s procurement office as part of a shuffle caused by the resignation of Aviation Commission Ginger Evans. Aldermen will weigh tax breaks for three Chicago businesses, and the council’s Progressive Caucus demanded hearings on Chicago Public Schools officials handling of a sexual abuse scandal.
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Chicago hotels would only be required to provide employees who work in guest rooms with panic buttons to protect them from being sexually assaulted or harassed under a change endorsed Wednesday by the Committee on Workforce Development.
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Some homeowners near the popular 606 elevated trail are one step closer to getting some financial help from the city, as aldermen voted to approve a new grant program to help pay for exterior repairs. One alderman pressed city officials to develop more help for homeowners whose property values suddenly surge.
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Aldermen have a full set of committee meetings on tap — but a proposal to rename Balbo Drive for Civil Rights icon Ida B. Wells is now in limbo, and won’t be heard by the Transportation Committee. Aviation Commissioner Ginger Evans stepped down after three tumultuous years, and will be replaced by a City Hall veteran. The city’s use of a gang database faces a legal challenge filed by Northwestern University’s MacArthur Justice Center.
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City Council’s Housing and Real Estate Committee meets at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday to consider a revamp of one third of the Chicago Housing Authority’s Board, a plan to maintain homes for long-time residents near the 606 trail, and a road widening designed to allow better access to Chicago’s newest neighborhood.
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Chicago hotels would only be required to provide employees who clean guest rooms panic buttons to protect them from being sexually assaulted or harassed under a change proposed by Ald. Michelle Harris (8.)
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Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle offered her usual sobering warning at a briefing with reporters Monday designed to look ahead to the 2019 budget, anticipating it will be “difficult and challenging.”
Cook County budget projections show stagnant revenues and growing general fund expenses in the out-years, owed in part to the repeal of the county's beverage tax in 2017. [Cook County]
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A Chicago police officer who planned to challenge Sheriff Tom Dart dropped out of the race, while three new aldermanic candidates filed to challenge incumbents across the city.
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Despite efforts by supporters of a plan to rename Balbo Drive for investigative journalist Ida B. Wells to flood aldermen with calls and emails, the measure backed by 27 aldermen won't be considered Wednesday by the Committee on Transportation and the Public Way.
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A compromise measure that would give members of the public “some” but not “complete” control of the police department could be unveiled as soon as this week, Ald. Ariel Reboyras (30) said.
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Supporters of a plan to rename Balbo Drive for investigative journalist Ida B. Wells scrambled Friday after they got wind the measure had been pulled from the agenda for Wednesday’s meeting of the Transportation Committee. Surprising no one, Mayor Rahm Emanuel picked an ally of House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) to serve as 23rd Ward alderman. One day after touting a new express train to O’Hare Airport designed to cater to business travelers and tourists, Emanuel turned his focus to the CTA Green Line on the South Side.
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State, city and county lawmakers met Friday afternoon at the headquarters of the Service Employees International Union to discuss an uphill battle — getting constituents to participate in the 2020 Census.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel invoked the spirit of Daniel Burnham Thursday, unveiling a $1 billion plan to transform the way business travelers and tourists get from O’Hare International Airport to the Loop by allowing Tesla’s Elon Musk’s The Boring Co. to dig a high-speed speed tunnel across the Northwest Side, which the mayor referred to as “the X” — like a next generation version of the L we all know and tolerate.
