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Mayor-elect Johnson’s plans to double number of summer jobs for Chicago’s teens might require some work

Johnson will take office just two weeks before the city’s deadline to apply for summer employment, and he will be locked into a budget set by the previous administration.

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Vallas sues consultant who allegedly defrauded campaign out of $680,000

Chimaobi Enyia, hired to get out the vote in Black communities, is accused of being paid for work he refused to give an accounting of or return the money when confronted by mayoral candidate Paul Vallas.

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Chicago told to reinstate employees fired over COVID-19 vaccination requirement

CHICAGO — Chicago must reinstate city employees who were fired for refusing to comply with Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and rescind the requirement, a state administrative law judge has ruled.

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City went too far in worker crackdown over COVID vaccines, judge rules

In a case that applies to members of several unions, an administrative law judge for a state agency rules the city has to reinstate workers and make up for lost wages and benefits.

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Mayor-elect warned: don’t mess with City Council reorganization

Finance Committee Chair Scott Waguespack is among the committee chairs who could be pushed out in favor of more chairs loyal to Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson.

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Mayor Lightfoot leaves a legacy worth building on in city planning, development

It will be up to Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson to keep pressing forward and, as Daniel Burnham said, ‘make no little plans’ for the South and West Sides.

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Acting CPD leader resigns amid search for top cop, Mayor-elect Johnson’s new chief of staff and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Interim Chicago police Superintendent Eric Carter to retire next month as Mayor Lightfoot leaves office

CHICAGO — Eric Carter, the interim superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, will retire on May 15 after three decades with the department, the CPD announced Thursday.

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Acting Chicago Police Supt. Eric Carter announces retirement amid nationwide search for next top cop

Carter plans to retire May 15, two months after he took over the police department from David Brown — and the day Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson is sworn into office.

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The long goodbye: City Council honors Mayor Lori Lightfoot, 13 departing members

Tears were shed, good-natured barbs traded, hatchets buried. One would never have known Ald. Edward Burke is leaving under the cloud of a federal indictment or that the mayor’s relationship with the Council was so contentious,

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Harp maker Lyon & Healy is orchestrating a move to the Galewood neighborhood

The 159-year-old company could get a property tax break from the city of Chicago for moving from Fulton Market and expanding at 6500 W. Cortland St.

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Lightfoot extends pandemic lifeline to airport concessionaires on her way out the door

Presiding over her last City Council meeting on Wednesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot introduced an ordinance empowering Aviation Commissioner Jamie Rhee to negotiate new, more “limited relief” for O’Hare and Midway concessionaires.

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Paul Vallas outspent Brandon Johnson nearly 2-to-1 in losing mayoral bid

CHICAGO — Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas outspent Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson by a nearly 2-to-1 margin leading up to Vallas losing in April in the race to become Chicago’s next mayor.

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Year of the Incumbent? Only one sitting City Council member unseated this year — first time in a century

The solitary defeat of appointed Ald. Anabel Abarca (12th) marks the fewest defeated incumbents since Chicago instituted the 50-member City Council system in 1923. Seven sitting members were knocked out in each of the previous two election cycles.

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Mayor takes Chicago police leaders to task amid questions on response to latest violent gathering of youths downtown

CHICAGO — Outgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot used a weekly meeting with police leaders Tuesday to demand answers for why officers seemingly struggled to control crowds of young people who gathered downtown over the weekend, damaging vehicles and leading to the circulation of viral videos of the chaos, sources familiar…

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Bronzeville high-rise near CTA Green Line to open by summer

Half the units in 43G One, a 10-story mixed-use building next to the 43rd Street station, will be affordable for lower-income residents. The second phase of the project is expected to be completed next year.

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Lightfoot says she’s handing Johnson a city with rosy financial future

The midyear budget forecast, issued about four months earlier than usual, offers a brighter picture than the last forecast, just eight months ago. But one City Council member said it’s far too soon for an accurate assessment.

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CPD leadership blamed for fractious response to weekend gatherings, Ed Burke Day proposal pulled and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Democrats place big bet on Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson by tapping Chicago for ’24 convention

CHICAGO — Democrats, led by President Joe Biden, are making a big bet on Brandon Johnson.

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Alderman blasts fractious CPD leadership for flat-footed response to violent weekend gatherings

Officials fought amongst themselves and street cops were overwhelmed, Ald Brian Hopkins said, as groups of teens jumped on cars and set fires in the Loop — and at least three teens were shot. ‘Nobody knew who was in charge,’ Hopkins said.

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Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson tries to influence City Council reorganization

Jason Lee, a senior adviser to Johnson’s transition team, refused to pinpoint specific changes amid reports that several committee chairs could lose those posts.

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Prognosis uncertain for Arwady post with Johnson — but city health chief ‘looking forward to the conversation’

Dr. Allison Arwady told the Sun-Times, “I am hopeful to stay on in my role,” but Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson has voiced concerns about the way Chicago Public Schools were reopened during the COVID pandemic.

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Chicago's mayor, mayor-elect weigh in on weekend shootings as summer approaches

CHICAGO — The weekend shootings of three teenagers in two separate incidents drew responses from Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson as summer looms.

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How Black labor leaders propelled Brandon Johnson to the Chicago mayor’s office

CHICAGO — One warm evening last July, SEIU Local 73 President Dian Palmer got a call out of the blue from Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, who wanted to meet.

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Chicago theaters embrace intimacy choreographers, another City Council race decided and more in your Chicago news roundup

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