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The move Friday to give back money from Carmen A. Rossi’s companies came in response to Sun-Times reporting on an ethics order issued in 2011 by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Hospital admissions for COVID-19 have jumped more than 26% in the last week alone, putting them on pace to hit numbers not seen since mid-February.
The 2nd Ward City Council member said he ran out of time to challenge her nominating petition signatures.
Only 280 Chicago homeowners have had a lead service line replaced under city programs the past two years — out of an estimated 390,000 lead lines, the most in any city in the United States.
“Big business and right-wing donors are scared of what we’re doing,” United Working Families Executive Director Emma Tai wrote in a Friday fundraising appeal to supporters.
The cryptocurrency giant pledged at least $1 million to help provide universal basic income to help people get back on their feet after time behind bars. Now, it has filed for bankruptcy without delivering most of the grant.
The building will be closed from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m., with the drill taking place at 10 a.m. The county side of the building will remain open.
The group says turning a 26-acre site on the Near West Side into a soccer training facility will make it harder for those with disabilities to find housing.
Ald. Ray Lopez says the contribution from billionaire Joe Mansueto “represents a gross & familiar abuse of power.” Chicagoans with disabilities protest plans for the training center on land slated for affordable housing.
Bally’s casino is set to temporarily occupy the historic Medinah Temple, 600 N. Wabash Ave., before moving to its permanent riverfront location on Chicago Avenue and Halsted Street.
Mike Ruemmler, who managed Rahm Emanuel’s 2015 mayoral reelection campaign, said he plans to form a committee bankrolled by business leaders to elect moderate alderpersons.
Three districts where crime is surging — Central, Gresham and Shakespeare — have only two candidates for three open seats.
The project will offer lower-cost housing in a wealthy area while preserving some public parking for nearby businesses.
Now Chicago’s cutthroat game of petition challenges begins.
The revised database, dubbed the Criminal Enterprise Information System, was developed after the original database was found to be a disorganized mess of often unverified and outdated information.
Detective Isaac Lambert says he was demoted after he refused to clear a fellow officer in the 2017 shooting of 18-year-old Ricardo Hayes.
Indicted Ald. Edward Burke (14th) chose not to seek reelection to a record 15th term in a ward dramatically redrawn to eliminate his most favorable precincts.
Tim Degnan a trusted point man, was key to Richard M. Daley’s political, policy success. As a lawmaker, he raised funds for the new Comiskey Park to keep the White Sox in Chicago.
A loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in public health funding and low booster shot participation could lead to another surge, Dr. Allison Arwady says.
The Racine station on the Green Line closed in 1994 when the rest of the line was renovated. Now, some residents are trying to get a referendum on the ballot to measure public support for bringing it back.
If you haven’t had your COVID-19 fall 2022 booster, now is the time, Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said.
Beyond the bragging rights, candidates try to file more than the minimum number of signatures required to withstand challenges by rival candidates. The weeklong filing period also begins the winnowing of the mayoral field.
The ACLU of Illinois has repeatedly raised alarms about such cameras, warning last year that the city’s camera system “continues to operate without any regulation or privacy or regular public reporting.”
Board of Election Commissioners says it’s working on making more sites accessible and letting voters know which ones are not before February’s municipal election.
The project is expected to start with two new satellite concourses, which will “dramatically expand the airport’s ability to accommodate aircraft of all sizes,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said. “This is a big deal for us.”