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CPS planned as of Friday to ask the Board of Education as soon as next week to authorize rehiring the janitorial behemoth to clean all its school buildings, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.
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Police officers who take those calls — while on limited duty or awaiting disciplinary findings — met the goal for answering phones just 38% of the time, records show.
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Many said that what passed in the City Council on Wednesday is a good first step.
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Robert M. Kowalski is accused of embezzling at least $31 million from Washington Federal Bank for Savings, which operated in the Daley family political fiefdom for generations.
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Commissioner Tammy Wendt is accused of hiring her first cousin for a cushy $150,000-a-year job at the property tax appeals office. She accuses her fellow commissioners of being "nothing but bullies."
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A police chase took place outside a church Merrick Garland planned to visit during his first Chicago official trip as attorney general. Raised in Lincolnwood, Garland said of gun violence: "I feel it particularly in my hometown."
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He and his late brother William Shaw, a former state senator and mayor of Dolton, were a powerful political duo in city, county and state politics.
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Ald. Brian Hopkins wants to require party buses to halt operations at 10 p.m. The shooting at a gas station at North Avenue and LaSalle Street occurred just after midnight, and was the third mass shooting of the day.
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The 79-page plan includes 84 "strategies" and hundreds of "one-to-three-year targets." The overriding goals are to make public transportation faster and more accessible, Chicago streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists and expand bike share, bike lanes and dedicated bus lanes.
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Ald. Roderick Sawyer, among the Council’s prime backers of civilian oversight, predicted if things are so dire a no-confidence vote is needed, "that person is pretty much out the door anyway" and might even be fired before aldermen weigh in.
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"It’s up to individuals to make a decision about whether they want to be in a large group," Gov. J.B. Pritzker said. "I would recommend to people that if they’re going to be jammed together, please wear a mask."
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The lawsuit filed by the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans alleges the Chicago Park District breached a nearly 50-year-old contract when it removed the statue last year.
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Ald. Emma Mitts called it a "history-making moment" for the West Side. "When I first came in, the first thing I asked for was a youth center for our children. It took me 21 years," Mitts said. The council also passed a streamlined process for approving business signs.
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The 36-to-13 vote came after a sometimes heated and emotional debate that dragged on for nearly two hours. Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the debate "historic" and "one for the ages."
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The Cubs’ partnership with DraftKings could put Major League Baseball’s first stadium sportsbook at Wrigley Field. But first, the City Council must lift the ban on sports betting in Chicago. Ald. Walter Burnett, whose ward includes the United Center, wants to do just that.
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In 2008, the City Council borrowed $85 million to buy the shuttered hospital, hoping to put an Olympic athletes village there for the 2016 Games. But Chicago lost its bid for those Games, and the site has remained vacant.
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12-8 vote by Public Safety Committee moves the oversight panel to council floor some six years after it first was proposed.
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A plan years in the making to build a $4 billion multi-use development at the site of the former Michael Reese Hospital campus on the South Side is one step closer to becoming a reality.
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The position is critical to the ward, and aldermen should have the ability to complain about superintendents who are not doing a good job.
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The COVID-19 Delta variant is now estimated to account for almost half the new city cases, and if the variant is allowed to fester, more restrictions eventually could be in store, the mayor warned.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot appeared headed for a second City Council defeat on aldermanic prerogative, but an eleventh-hour compromise could avert that showdown, according to License Committee Chairman Emma Mitts.
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At Wednesday’s City Council meeting, Ald. Anthony Napolitano wants to take some crimes normally prosecuted by the state’s attorney’s office and divert them to city hearing officers.
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Ald. Brendan Reilly wants pedicabs banned from the River North entertainment district from 6 p.m. to 9 a.m. and their amplified sound silenced at all times, saying some pedicab drivers are serving as DJs for "illegal curbside parties."
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The city hasn’t dedicated sufficient resources toward responding to protests and potential unrest since it hosted the NATO summit in 2012, the report said.
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At Wednesday’s City Council meeting, Ald. Brian Hopkins plans to introduce an ordinance changing the law to make it clear that the hiring and firing of ward superintendents is controlled by the local alderman.
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The City Council’s Finance Committee agreed to earmark $60 million to build city streets, a new park and other infrastructure needed to pave the way for the "Bronzeville Lakefront" project.
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A month after losing a vote on the issue of aldermanic prerogative — her first City Council defeat — the mayor will try again on legislation shaving up to two months off the 150-day wait for business permits, signs and awnings.
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The mayor would retain final say on police policy disputes. Reform advocates won the right to take a vote of no-confidence in the police superintendent, though the vote would be non-binding.
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"Bernie taught me that policy only matters when it works at the street level," said U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley.
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About 50 cops will focus on gun traffickers and people whose state firearm permits have been revoked in the latest effort to reduce violence in the city.
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The U.S. transportation secretary’s Illinois stop is one of three he’s made in recent days to promote Biden’s infrastructure plan. The former Democratic presidential hopeful has also visited Arizona and Oregon.
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Moreno, 49, was sentenced to "second chance" probation as part of a deal with prosecutors, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office said.
