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Businessman lands big deal with CTA, then helps Lightfoot’s reelection effort

The 77 Committee is the name of the fledgling effort by Lightfoot allies to bolster the embattled first-term mayor in the Feb. 28 election — often in ways she may not legally be able to do herself.

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City Hall giving passes on air pollution, CPD shooting probed and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Polluters like Southeast Side plant often get a pass on air-quality violations in Chicago, Sun-Times finds

Fewer than half of all citations written by Chicago city health inspectors in recent years for air pollution end up sticking, records show. That’s left neighbors of polluters unhappy.

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POLL: Chicagoans want more help for newly arrived immigrants — despite controversy over South Side shelter

A majority of Chicago voters think local government should provide more assistance to the hundreds of recently arrived immigrants, according to a Sun-Times/WBEZ/Telemundo Chicago/NBC5 poll.

Chicago Sun-Times

Philly may grease poles ahead of the Super Bowl. Eagles fans don't care

Philadelphia habitually greases the light poles in Center City to keep jubilant fans earthbound after a big win. Fans sometimes treat these safety measures like a dare.

WEKU

Ulez extension rebellion extends to Home Counties as councils refuse signs

Councils surrounding the capital have refused to sign an agreement allowing TfL to install street signs and cameras warning drivers they are approaching the clean air zone

Evening Standard

Havering becomes latest London borough to formally refuse Ulez expansion

The council said many of its residents are worried about the plan pushing up their cost of living

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Bankrupt Croydon council to increase council tax by record 15%

Bankrupt Croydon Council has been given special permission by the government to increase council tax by a “staggering” record amount.

Evening Standard

Chadchart pressed on school lunch prices

Jirayu Huangsap, a Pheu Thai Party MP for Klong Sam Wa district, has called out the Bangkok governor and demanded serious action be taken to combat extortionate student lunch prices at city schools.

Bangkok Post

Chicago cops caught on video attacking man in holding cell each have long records of alleged misconduct

Amid calls to fire Officer Enrique Delgado Fernandez and Sgt. Jerald Williams in the wake of the video release, the Sun-Times has found they’ve faced dozens of investigations into their on-duty conduct.

Chicago Sun-Times

These are some of the people in line to profit from Lightfoot’s Bally’s casino deal

Among them: the family of the woman chairing the mayor’s reelection campaign fund, contractors that are Lightfoot financial backers and two clout-heavy real estate investors whose children attended the Catholic elementary school where Lightfoot’s daughter was a student.

Chicago Sun-Times

Challenger for FOP president says incumbent has alienated everyone — and hurt rank-and-file cops

Bob Bartlett, a veteran CPD detective, is trying to unseat John Catanzara, the union president who has feuded with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Like Catanzara, Bartlett is no fan of Lightfoot or CPD Supt. David Brown — but he disagrees with Catanzara’s scorched-earth rhetoric.

Chicago Sun-Times

Penny Mordaunt dismisses claim Sadiq Khan is a ‘dictator’ over Ulez expansion

The Commons Leader disagreed with Tory MP Bob Blackman.

The Independent UK

Rough sleeping in London rises by 21 per cent in a year

There was a severe increase in the number of people sleeping rough for the first time on the capital’s streets

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WEKU

Fayette Urban County Government welcomes new County Clerk, Susan Lamb

Fayette County has a new administrator when it comes to local elections, land deeds, marriage licenses, and vehicle registration and taxation. The new county clerk moved from City Hall, not even a block away, to the Clerk’s office.

Chicago Sun-Times

Newly released video shows Chicago cop repeatedly punching man in holding cell

Activist William Calloway called for the firing of the officer and his partner in the beating of Damien Stewart in May of 2019.

Chicago Sun-Times

Vallas proposes ‘second Burnham plan’ to rebuild neighborhoods, reverse population loss

The plan unveiled by Vallas, a former Chicago Public Schools CEO, would invest one-third of all new revenues from a Chicago casino, sports betting, developer fees, tax-increment financing districts and TIF surpluses in South and West side neighborhoods.

Daily Mirror

Thousands of kids across country living in damp, mouldy and infested homes, Sadiq Khan warns

According to an anlaysis by City Hall over 1.8million children were forced to living in poor quality homes in 2019-2020 - leading the London Mayor to call for emergency action from Government ministers

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Chronicle Live

Six decades of The Who in Newcastle - from 1960s Mod upstarts to rock royalty

ChronicleLive reported this week how legendary rockers The Who will this summer once again be performing in our region

Evening Standard

Children with health issues plead with anti-Ulez councils to back expansion

The ultra low emission zone is due to expand on August 29, meaning an additional 200,000 drivers a day will have to pay the £12.50 daily levy

Bristol Post

Major questions facing group who will decide how city is run from next year

The group has been thrashing out the details for how the council will run after May next year

Bangkok Post

Covid-19 cases 'are declining' despite foreign arrival surge

The number of Covid-19 cases has gradually declined, despite the spike in foreign visitors entering the country, said government spokeswoman Traisuree Taisaranakul.

Evening Standard

Minecraft Mayor: Blocky Sadiq Khan appears in-game in Croydon design competition

The Mayor of London features as an NPC to introduce design challenges to young Londoners

Bristol Post

Inquiry into Bristol council ‘spying’ on SEND parents social media delayed by months

Council staff were monitoring the social media accounts of parents with disabled children

Evening Standard

London borough to turn 75% of its streets into Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

The move will see most vehicles banned from three quarters of Hackney’s streets

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