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Few answers on potential new Chicago taxes at long-awaited City Council hearing
Chicago Tribune· 3 days agoChicago aldermen seemed primed Wednesday to finally put some meat on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s charge...
CTU lobbyist helped craft mayor’s letter to Senate president at heart of Springfield selective...
Chicago Tribune· 2 days agoMayor Brandon Johnson’s letter to Illinois Senate President Don Harmon last month vowing not to shut down selective enrollment schools was directly edited ...
State adds two migrant shelters months before DNC, causing objections from lawmakers
Chicago Tribune· 2 days agoAhead of August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration...
Mulling Reparations, California Sets Aside $12 Million as a Start
New York Times· 8 hours agoDirect cash payments are not imminent, but under the state’s new budget, the money could go toward...
Opinion | Chicago Needs to be Repaired Not Taxed for Reparations
The Wall Street Journal· 2 days agoIt’ll have to cost billions to fund and attempts to find that revenue will drive out residents.
Chicago Teachers Union endorses slate of candidates for Chicago’s school board election
Chicago Tribune· 1 day agoLess than a week after the filing period ended for Chicago’s first school board election, the...
Opinion | Chicago’s Slavery Reparations
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoJohnson follows the latest fad rather than fix the public schools.
Dorval on defense: Embattled CTA chief tours his transit system for lawmakers to see agency ‘up...
Chicago Tribune· 1 day agoDorval Carter embarked on a “legislative tour” of his transit system with Black lawmakers this week, the latest endeavor by the embattled CTA president to curry favor with key government officials ...
Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer dies at 51, family says
Chicago Tribune· 6 days agoDennis Deer, a Cook County commissioner from the West Side for seven years, died Sunday, according...
Editorial: City Council has a Google Doc full of wild new tax ideas and no clear plans to review...
Chicago Tribune· 2 days agoThe City Council’s mad scramble for new revenue sources, just getting underway per the orders of Mayor Brandon Johnson, is shaping up to be a spectacle ...