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OCT 09, 2024
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Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a City Council meeting in April 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The City Council will meet on Wednesday at 10 a.m. to consider final approval of two major bond refinancing ordinances recently passed by the finance committee that are key to the city getting its budget shortfall under control.
Alderpeople have also called for two special meetings in the afternoon — one that covers the shakeup at the Chicago Board of Education and another that represents the latest effort to save the city’s recently decommissioned acoustic gunshot detection technology ShotSpotter.
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SEP 30, 2024
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CPS CEO Pedro Martinez provides testimony at a Chicago Board of Education meeting on Sept. 26, 2024. [Livestream]
The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Board of Education didn’t act on CPS CEO Pedro Martinez’s contract or on a proposal to take out a high-interest loan to help shore up its budget at its Thursday evening meeting, but it did vote on a school closure moratorium following allegations from the teachers union that Martinez was looking at closing or consolidating schools.
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SEP 30, 2024
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Early voting opened in parts of Illinois last week.
Illinois voters will be asked to weigh in on three issues this fall when they cast their ballots after the General Assembly approved advisory referendums to guide future policy decisions.
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SEP 26, 2024
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Illinois’ sign is picture at the Democratic National Convention. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]
Illinois voters can begin casting ballots Thursday in an election year where much of voters’ focus is on the presidential contest at the top of ticket. At the Democratic Party of Illinois, the goal is also to ensure Democratic candidates further down the ballot find success amid noise generated by the presidential contest.
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SEP 25, 2024
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The Illinois Capitol
Illinois’ public universities have a major problem with deferred maintenance and executing capital projects, university presidents and officials told a House committee on Monday.
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SEP 19, 2024
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Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36) is pictured at City Council on Sept. 18, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
The City Council on Wednesday approved a replacement zoning committee chair, an ordinance to incentivize the construction of data centers in the city and the appointment of a new chief procurement officer. The council also gave final approval to an anti-gentrification ordinance for the Northwest Side and a controversial appointment to the civilian police oversight commission.
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SEP 13, 2024
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Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly speaks at a City Club of Chicago event on Wednesday. [City Club of Chicago]
Illinois lawmakers have passed several bills in recent years designed to combat the proliferation of illegal firearms used in crimes in Illinois. Those laws are having an effect, Illinois State Police (ISP) Director Brendan Kelly said.
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SEP 09, 2024
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The Illinois sign at the Democratic National Convention at the United Center last month. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff made another stop in Chicago Friday just two weeks after the Democratic National Convention to stump for his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, as the Harris-Walz campaign looks to build on strong fundraising numbers with two months before Election Day.
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SEP 05, 2024
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Alex Gallegos, a Crete-Monee Community Unit School District 201-U Board member, attended the DNC in Chicago as a Ceasefire Delegate. [Provided]
Alex Gallegos, a Crete-Monee Community Unit School District 201-U Board member, gained local attention two weeks ago for being the only Illinois delegate to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to vote “present” during the roll call to nominate Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the party ticket over the administration’s continued support for arming Israel in its military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which has killed thousands of civilians.
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AUG 19, 2024
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Gov. JB Pritzker speaks ahead of President Joe Biden at an event in Chicago in June 2023. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]
Chicago will play host to a presidential nomination for the 26th time this week and add to the city’s rich political history, which has included influential convention moments that nominated Abraham Lincoln, produced some of America’s fiercest political fights and the dark cloud of riots in 1968 the city has never forgotten.
In addition to the new American history set to be written at the United Center this week, Illinois Democrats are also hoping to share a blueprint for passing Democratic policies as Gov. JB Pritzker takes on one of the most important political roles of his career as host governor and keynote speaker.
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