Emanuel Property Tax Hike Clears Another Hurdle, But With Plenty Of Dissent
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal for the City's largest ever Property Tax increase won key committee approval Tuesday afternoon, but the vote was far from unanimous.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal for the City's largest ever Property Tax increase won key committee approval Tuesday afternoon, but the vote was far from unanimous.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says officials are ready for activists who want to thwart the city's gun buyback program, reports WBBM's Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
A 65-year-old man who suffers from dementia and was missing for more than a month from the South Side Grand Boulevard neighborhood has been found safe.
Barber Miguel Rosas can't believe the attention he's gotten for his intricate design of Jake Arrieta he created for his friend's son.
Every classroom at the Chicago Public Schools should have broadband wireless Internet access by next school year, thanks to a $38 million federal grant announced Tuesday.
Hundreds of students at Northern Illinois University have received booster shots, as the university tries to keep a mumps outbreak under control.
Firefighters responded to a three-unit apartment building in the 1700 block of 119th Street in Whiting, Ind., about 3 a.m., Whiting Fire Chief Gus Danielides said. The woman living in the apartment, thought to be in her 60s, was found right outside the rear door leading to the fire escape.
It's not an elimination game for the Cubs, but with the Mets leading 2-0 in the NLCS headed into Game 3 at Wrigley Field, it feels like a must-win matchup for Chicago.
Former Ald. Sandi Jackson has arrived at a minimum security prison camp in West Virginia, to begin serving her yearlong prison sentence for filing a false federal income tax return.
Thomas Kelly of NYC's Mexicue shows how to make pork tacos, the perfect portable party food.
As members of an Illinois House committee prepared to hold a hearing on Mayor Rahm Emanuel's request to expand property tax exemptions to ease the burden of his proposed property tax hike, Chicago landlords were criticizing the mayor's plan.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's $7.8 billion budget passed its first major test on Monday, as the City Council's Budget Committee endorsed the spending plan after the mayor made a slight change to satisfy aldermen who fear his proposed garbage collection fee would be used to pay for other things.
Commissioner John Fritchey said he was driving north on LaSalle Street on Monday, when he noticed a man on an old bike, pulling the tire off another bike.
A Chicago lumber yard went up in smoke and flames Tuesday, when dry and breezy conditions forced firefighters to return to the warehouse after they seemingly had the blaze under control.
The Seattle Seahawks entered the 2015 NFL season with high expectations while the San Francisco 49ers entered the season with more questions than answers.
