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After months of negotiations, the Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight approved a watered-down ordinance.
City Council still only needs a simple majority, 26 votes, to approve city borrowing.
La demanda, presentada por 66 ciudades, impugna las iniciativas de la administración del presidente Donald Trump que buscan restringir los fondos federales a las ciudades que prohíben a sus oficiales de policía y otros empleados hacer cumplir las leyes federales de inmigración.
JDL Development and Kayne Anderson Real Estate take over most of the North Side parcel, with plans for a “walking” residential neighborhood that’s modest compared with an earlier Sterling Bay push for high-density offices and homes.
The settlements would broadside an already severely cash-strapped City Hall, which ended last year with a zero balance in its operating checkbook.
Aunque Burke ya no está en prisión, sigue bajo la jurisdicción de la Oficina Federal de Prisiones. Cuando eso termine, se espera que comience a cumplir un año de libertad supervisada.
The lawsuit, filed by 66 cities, challenges President Donald Trump’s administration initiatives that seek to withhold federal funding from cities that prohibit their police officers and other employees from enforcing federal civil immigration laws.
There are lessons for Democrats from Zohran Mamdani’s strategy of tapping into the frustrations of working-class families and disaffected young people, former political strategist and longtime Chicagoan David Axelrod says.
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.