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The closest vote — 29 to 21 — was on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to raise property taxes by $94 million, followed by annual increases tied to the consumer price index.
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The mayor proposed delaying the team’s $250,000 payment to the Cub Fund until 2024. The fund was created in 2014 to bankroll neighborhood infrastructure improvements, including street resurfacing and lighting projects.
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The allegations came after Conyears-Ervin moved to terminate four of her employees over the weekend.
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If there were a responsible way to close our budget gap that didn’t involve raising taxes or requiring furloughs for employees, we already would have taken it.
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On the eve of a final budget vote, representatives from the DefundCPD Campaign, Black Lives Matter, the Grassroots Collaborative and United Working Families put the mayor on blast and aldermen on notice.
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With a two-thirds vote to make it effective immediately, the City Council reined in what critics call "predatory" delivery fees that third-party services charge restaurants. They’d be capped 10% or 15%, including all fees and commissions.
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The grandson and nephew of Chicago’s two longest-serving mayors wants a $1.25 tax on packages weighing 50 pounds or less, and $2.50 for packages over that. Prepared food, prescriptions and medical appliances would be exempt.
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A day after the Finance Committee approved the mayor’s $195.7 million revenue package, the Budget Committee approved the spending plan 26-to-8.
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"The people that you’ve worked with to help make everyday peoples’ lives better — you can’t just walk away from that situation," said Bob Reiter, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor.
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The move would make the Ricketts family eligible for federal tax credits.
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The city’s Black Shop Friday effort will have more than 500 listings for shoppers eager to support Black-owned businesses.
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The 21-to-12 vote could signal smooth sailing in the full Council next week on the full $12.8 billion budget, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday she’s not gloating.
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Lisandra Velez said the city metaphorically crushed her mother’s legs when they towed her wheelchair accessible van in 2018.
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With the virus raging through the city in ways not seen since the onset of the pandemic, and long lines forming at testing sites, Mayor Lori Lightfoot responded by boosting Chicago’s testing capacity.
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The chickens are coming home to roost for a political newcomer who failed to cultivate relationships of trust with aldermen but now is asking them to walk the tax plank.
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A federal housing official tells City Hall that a civil rights complaint makes "persuasive" arguments the metal shredder’s move to the Southeast Side would cause "serious and irreparable injury."
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The stage is set for a two-thirds vote by the full City Council needed to throw an immediate lifeline to restaurant owners.
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Shelves in Garfield Park, Humboldt Park and Belmont-Cragin remained stocked with groceries and essentials like toilet paper — which became scarce during the initial lockdown in March — were limited to one or two per person.
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The plan by Habitat and P3 Markets could boost affordable housing and transit development along 43rd Street.
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Ald. Matt O’Shea’s endorsement helped propel Lightfoot’s landslide win last year, but that didn’t prevent his video gaming idea from being sent to the Rules Committee, a traditional burial ground for legislation the mayor opposes.
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The ordinance proposed by two mayoral allies would automatically end 90 days after restrictions on indoor capacity are eased to allow at least 40% capacity. The catch is, Chicago restaurants only get the break immediately if two-thirds of the City Council approves.
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The mayor emphasized that the $94 million property tax increase will not impact Chicago taxpayers until 2022, when coronavirus vaccines are expected to be widely-distributed. The idea is to give Chicago’s pandemic-ravaged economy time to fully re-open and recover.
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The company that owns General Iron in Lincoln Park wants to set up shop on the Southeast Side. Community members call the move "environmental racism."
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Revenues generated by the sale of recreational and medical marijuana have "gone through the roof," allowing the city to cancel the layoffs.
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Rookie Ald. Jeanette Taylor (16th) said she was outraged by the threat and told Mayor Lightfoot that she wouldn’t stand for it.
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The Fraternal Order of Police contends officers who attend mandatory in-service training "have the potential of becoming superspreaders of the virus."
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See Wong made a secret 2014 audio and video recording for the feds of then-Ald. Danny Solis and House Speaker Michael Madigan, according to court records and sources. It became part of the investigation that led to the indictment of Ald. Edward M. Burke.
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She later was a founder of the Latino Institute, Her daughter and 93-year-old husband David Cerda also have COVID-19, complicating her burial plans.
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Lightfoot told the Black Caucus said she’ll play hardball when choosing projects in her $3.7 billion capital plan. She’s also tying the budget to removing loopholes in the Welcoming City ordinance that allow police to assist immigration authorities in some cases.
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Two weeks before Thanksgiving, the mayor implored Chicagoans to buy small turkeys and fight the urge to open their homes to extended family. Otherwise, we’re "on track to lose 1,000 more Chicagoans" — or more — by Dec. 31.
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The best development for Chicago and other big cities in the last week was the election of Joe Biden as president. He favors a pandemic relief package worth as much as $3.5 trillion.
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The Copernicus Foundation said officials unfairly spurned its $300,000 offer for the Jefferson Park property.
