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The city is always working to bring Pullman Innovations into compliance, “but they never get there,” one environmental group reported. The smell is “unbearable,” the 10th Ward alderperson said.
Austin accepted home improvement materials such as sump pumps and kitchen cabinets as kickbacks from a developer overseeing a $50 million project in her 34th Ward, prosecutors say. She allegedly then took action to benefit the developer and others.
HUD accused Chicago of violating residents’ civil rights by allowing City Council members to use their veto power to block low-income housing.
Walter Burnett, the City Council’s dean and Zoning Committee chair, plans to step down from the Council regardless of whether he gets the CHA post.
Should two-thirds City Council approval be needed for future borrowing? One mayoral critic thinks so
Southwest Side Ald. Marty Quinn (13th) wants to raise the threshold for approving City Hall borrowing from a simple majority, or 26 votes, to a two-thirds majority, or 34 votes. That would allow 17 members to block future borrowing.
It’s time to bring to a head the yearlong debate on whether to legalize accessory dwelling units, senior mayoral advisor Jason Lee said Monday.
Senior mayoral adviser Jason Lee acknowledged that there are “some real limitations on moving the date” based on NASCAR’s overall schedule and “some of the local events in Chicago in the same footprint.”
Wednesday’s mass shooting — which left four dead and 14 injured — was not counted in the total.
Lifeguard Charles Leto is accused of fatally shooting 15-year-old Marjay Dotson and seriously injuring 14-year-old Jeremy Herred near the park pool June 26. But tension between lifeguards and park patrons has been brewing for years, the 24th Ward alderperson says.
The main revenue source for the 4% raise isn’t available until at least September. Meanwhile, the CPS board president says he and the interim CEO are working “feverishly” to produce the raises sooner.
Chicago’s Department of Buildings approved the permit days after outlining a plan for the demolition at a community meeting at the Arturo Velasquez Westside Technical Institute.
The family is asking the Illinois State Police to take over the investigation as their attorney says the Chicago Police Department’s story of what happened doesn’t “pass the smell test.”
Inspector General Deborah Witzburg told the City Council that she’ll investigate the controversial June 4 police response if no one else will.
Most of the payouts stem from decades-old cases where convictions were overturned, the Law Department says.
Delvya Harris, 32, was a CHA manager at the Trumbull Park Homes in South Deering when she stole 50 money orders worth a total of $18,125 and put them in her personal account between December 2022 and March 2023, prosecutors said. She pleaded guilty to that crime as well as for filing fraudulent PPP claims.
Debra White’s OEMC dispatch colleagues describe her as the “mama” of the unit, making everyone feel welcome and treating emergency callers with empathy. They held her up when tragedy struck her own family and sent her off to retirement with cake, tears and a procession of police and firefighters.
Two factors outside the city’s control explain the situation: a $165 million reduction in Chicago’s share of revenues from the personal property replacement tax, and a disputed $175 million pension payment for non-teaching school employees.
No charges have been filed in the attack that left an unidentified 56-year-old man dead Sunday.
The funds likely were unfrozen out of fear of retaliation after President Donald Trump authorized a military attack to damage Iran’s heavily fortified underground nuclear targets.