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Johnson unveils ‘blueprint to transform’ Chicago, revealing ‘how we will govern’

The mayor called the 223-page document the “foundation for how we will lead our city well into the future.” It’s loaded with ambitious, politically explosive ideas.

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Slow start or cautious rollout? Chicago mayor unveils transition report, fills key posts later than predecessors

CHICAGO -- Days before he was sworn in as Chicago’s mayor in 2011, Rahm Emanuel unveiled a series of goals from his transition team, including plans for the first 100 days.

Chicago Tribune

Lookingglass and other theaters are in crisis. For the show to go on, City Hall must lead the way.

Theaters throughout Chicago are as critical to the city as sports, politics, restaurants and architecture. Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city’s movers and shakers have work to make sure they thrive.

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Brandon Johnson replaces most of Chicago Board of Education

The new board will have a different feel than in past years when consultants, lawyers and bankers filled many of the seven seats. Only one of Johnson’s appointees is a lawyer, and she runs a legal aid organization.

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Chicago’s pension crisis worsens with investment losses

Losses from the market downturn were offset somewhat by taxes on sales, transactions, restaurants and amusements, the 2022 financial report from Deloitte & Touche says.

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‘Hyde Park is back’ at annual ‘4th on 53rd Parade’ on South Side, Brandon Johnson’s first as mayor

An estimated 5,000 people attended the Hyde Park tradition that dates back to 1992. The festivities included a battle of the bands between two rival high schools.

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NASCAR in Chicago was ‘a commercial for the city,’ but is it worthy of a 2024 repeat?

CHICAGO — The NASCAR Chicago street race was shaping up to be a disaster.

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Singing after the rain: Race promoters praise NASCAR weekend, but deeper dives will come

NASCAR said it invested $50 million in the festival, but heavy rain curtailed activities and spending.

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Chicago area cleans up, dries out after record rains flood basements, streets

Sunday’s storm dropped as much as 9 inches of rain in some places. Chicago’s Northwest and West sides were hard-hit.

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Paul Sullivan: Despite a rain delay and safety concerns, the 1st NASCAR Chicago Street Race is anything but dull

CHICAGO — The deluge that began Saturday night continued Sunday morning as NASCAR drivers awoke and prepared for the inaugural Chicago Street Race.

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Mayor Johnson appeals General Iron ruling in circuit court

An administrative hearings judge said in early June that a Southeast Side car-shredding operation should’ve gotten its permit.

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Hundreds of kids get free NASCAR tickets at West Side community event

For two days in a row, NASCAR has given out race tickets to thousands of people at events on the South, West Sides.

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Chicago police reforms slowed by staff shortages, court monitor says

Maggie Hickey’s report calls on Mayor Brandon Johnson to conduct a staffing study and improve data collection and community policing programs.

Chicago Sun-Times

Brandon Johnson building consensus behind the scenes before delivering progressive agenda, top aide says

The mayor risks disappointing progressive voters who put him in office, but deputy chief of staff Cristina Pacione-Zayas isn’t concerned. In fact, the former state senator expects her fellow progressives to keep the heat on.

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Chicago’s cost to care for migrants arriving since August tops $100 million

CHICAGO -- The city of Chicago has spent more than $100 million to provide help and services to the thousands of migrants who have arrived in Chicago from south of the U.S. border since last August, mostly on personnel costs, officials said Wednesday.

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Six candidates advance to semifinals of Chicago police superintendent search

The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, a new civilian oversight body charged with leading the search, has until July 14 to pick three finalists and deliver those names to Mayor Brandon Johnson.

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Most funding OKd by City Council for migrant crisis to be spent on personnel

Cristina Pacione-Zayas, first deputy chief of staff for Mayor Brandon Johnson, told a City Council committee that the administration wants to build the infrastructure for a welcoming city for immigrants.

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Mayor Johnson faces first school board pick as its president, Miguel del Valle, announces exit

Del Valle led the school board through multiple crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and protests surrounding the school district’s renewal of its police contract.

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Biden kicks off reelection message in Chicago with embrace of ‘Bidenomics’

“We’ve added over 13 million jobs, more jobs in two years than any president has added in a four-year term. And folks, that’s no accident. That’s Bidenomics in action,” Biden told a crowd gathered Wednesday in the lobby of the Old Post Office.

Chicago Tribune

Kevin Warren says Bears seek ‘legitimate partner’ in picking site for new stadium. Would that be Arlington Heights? Maybe.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. — Chicago Bears President Kevin Warren said at a forum Monday night the team wants to build a world-class NFL stadium but would not proceed with a multibillion dollar project in Arlington Heights without an agreement on the tax bill for the land recently purchased.

Chicago Sun-Times

Day-after-Pride Parade, teen takeover drags on for six hours in Lake View

Video posted to social media showed teenagers dancing, often lewdly, in the street and on top of cars, vans, a police squad car and a CTA bus.

Chicago Sun-Times

Did a city consultant’s financial relationship with Bally’s help the gamer win the casino bid?

The Johnson administration should step in now and find out one way or another.

Chicago Sun-Times

Johnson launches summer jobs program

The program will have 24,000 jobs and internships for young people ages of 16 to 24. And while that’s 2,000 more than last year, it is 8,000 fewer than the One Summer Chicago program provided in 2019.

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Billionaire grandson of former Empire State Building owner killed in horror crash at racetrack

The prominent heir to Chicago's wealthy Crown family fortune died suddenly at an Aspen racetrack in Colorado on Sunday, his family reports

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City could open as many as 5 migrant shelters

Potential sites for new shelters were identified in a memo distributed to Chicago City Council members before a meeting Wednesday of the Council’s Immigrant and Refugee Rights Committee.

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