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Unveiling of city’s 2024 budget will be 2nd big test of Brandon Johnson’s leadership

Mayor Brandon Johnson will stand before the City Council Wednesday to disclose how he plans to plug a $538 million budget shortfall, more than $200 million of it tied to the migrant crisis.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 10, 2023

With libraries, more is better

Providing more money for prison libraries is the right move, to help inmates have a better chance of successful re-entry to society. But regulating little free libraries is a waste of time.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 9, 2023

Gas stoves aren’t the problem when it comes to toxic benzene emissions

An idling car or truck in the street probably emits more benzene than your average bacon and eggs meal cooked on a gas stove.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 5, 2023

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Small steps, slight delay for key parts of Johnson’s progressive agenda

Eliminating the subminimum wage for tipped workers has been teed up for a final vote on Friday. The City Council also created a working group to study reopening shuttered mental health clinics and held a hearing on a plan to create a dedicated fund to combat homelessness.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 4, 2023

Push to give Chicago City Council more control over pot zoning a ‘nonstarter’ for advocates

Weed firms would have to be OK’d by the local alderperson and the Zoning Committee, which typically defers to City Council members’ authority over zoning matters in their wards.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 4, 2023

City Council should pass ordinance to require new buildings be all-electric

Transitioning away from the gas system will take decades, but the first step is to end wasteful, unnecessary spending on the gas system by moving to all-electric new construction.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 4, 2023

Things to know about the resignation of a Kansas police chief who led a raid on a small newspaper

It took only a week for the central Kansas police chief who led an August raid on the local newspaper to go from looking like he had enough support at city hall to keep his job to resigning

The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023

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South and West Siders plead for law to end pollution ‘sacrifice zones’

City Council members hear from public before a major environmental impact ordinance is introduced this year.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 3, 2023

Ald. Ray Lopez running for Congress against Rep. Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia

Ray Lopez, representing the 15th Ward on the Chicago City Council, plans to challenge U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia in the 4th Congressional District’s Democratic primary election in March.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 3, 2023

The Kansas police chief who led the raid on a small newspaper has resigned

Gideon Cody's resignation comes days after Cody was suspended for reasons that were not made public, and weeks after a prosecutor said that there wasn't sufficient evidence to justify the search.

WEKU · Oct 3, 2023

Police raid on Kansas newspaper appears to have led to a file on the chief, bodycam video shows

Body camera video from a central Kansas police department’s raid of a weekly newspaper shows that an officer rifled through a desk drawer of a reporter who was investigating its chief

The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023

There's a new police superintendent in Chicago. The city council chose the ex-counterterrorism head

Chicago’s City Council has unanimously confirmed Larry Snelling as the city’s police superintendent, elevating the department’s counterterrorism chief

The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2023

Police board rejects push to move misconduct cases behind closed doors after arbitrator’s decision

The ruling prompted rebuke from FOP President John Catanzara, who said the union is “going to encourage these officers and maybe even assist them in suing the city, the police board and everybody.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 27, 2023

Chicago mayor’s top cop pick glides through first confirmation test

During a committee hearing Friday, Larry Snelling vowed to aggressively use technology to address robberies while supporting officers by bolstering mental health supports and giving them more time off.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 22, 2023

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Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 19, 2023

Congestion, chaos from Mexican Independence Day crowds must be addressed, City Council members say

A downtown parade or festival would help Chicago avoid sporadic, ad hoc celebrations citywide that jammed streets and caused all sorts of problems.

The Independent UK · Sep 18, 2023

Atlanta to release copies of 'Stop Cop City' petitions, even as referendum is stuck in legal limbo

Atlanta’s city government will scan and release copies of petitions against a proposed police and firefighter training center

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 15, 2023

Back to the kitchen? Mayor’s floor leader rejects latest restaurant industry compromise on subminimum wage

Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) said the restaurant industry’s latest proposal to raise the minimum wages for tipped workers to $20.54 an hour at Chicago restaurants with more than $3 million in annual revenue is “dead on arrival.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 14, 2023

Campaign to create funding to reduce homelessness finally launched in City Council

The “Bring Chicago Home” Coalition and its City Council allies introduced a measure to put a referendum on the ballot to allow a revised tax on high-end home sales,

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Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 14, 2023

Delta-8, other mind-altering hemp products would be tightly restricted in Chicago under new proposal.

The substances exploded in popularity after a federal law unintentionally allowed businesses to sell the weed-like substances without regulations.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 12, 2023

Chicago facing 2024 budget shortfall of $538 million — more than a third of it tied to migrant crisis

Mayor Brandon Johnson didn’t take his predecessor’s word for it when Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she’d left the city in great financial shape, with an $85 million shortfall. And it’s a good thing the new mayor was skeptical, his top aides told some City Council members in a budget briefing.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 12, 2023

Blackhawks project, Fulton Market towers get OK from City Council zoning panel

Two of the projects will be at Kinzie and Morgan streets, part of a neighborhood that has seen intense activity from developers.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 12, 2023

Proposed rewrite of Chicago’s hate crime ordinance would create additional category of ‘hate incidents’

The ordinance Ald. Debra Silverstein plans to introduce would create the category of a noncriminal “hate incident,” which Chicagoans could report either by calling the city’s 311 nonemergency number or by using the 311 app.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 11, 2023

Finance Committee OKs $25 million settlement to two men wrongfully convicted of 1993 murder of IIT hoops star

Tyrone Hood would get $17.5 million after spending 22 years in prison. Wayne Washington spent 14 years behind bars and would get $7.5 million. But Ald. Brian Hopkins worried the City Council would be setting an unaffordable precedent.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 8, 2023

Chicago will spend $255.7 million on migrant crisis by year’s end, mayor says

Alderpersons were not told where the tent cities would be located — they were simply asked to identify potential sites in their wards.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 7, 2023

Migrants would move from police stations to big tents in ‘winterized base camps’ under mayor’s new plan

Mayor Brandon Johnson did not rule out budget cuts or tax increases to pay for a burgeoning humanitarian crisis already costing Chicago upwards of $30 million a month. “Sacrifices” will be required from the city, he said, but the cost of not making those sacrifices would be far greater.

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