Switch To Grid-Based Trash Collection Saved City $30 Million
After the city switched from ward-based garbage collection to a grid system in 2012, the Department of Streets and Sanitation kept looking for more potential inefficiencies.
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After the city switched from ward-based garbage collection to a grid system in 2012, the Department of Streets and Sanitation kept looking for more potential inefficiencies.
The Chicago Police Department will be equipping every patrol officer in the city with body cameras a year ahead of schedule.
Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson is moving to discipline four more officers for alleged misconduct in connection with the 2014 Laquan McDonald shooting — but he's not seeking to fire any of them, a police spokesman said Friday.
Imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is asking the president to commute his corruption sentence.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office has released thousands of private emails he used to conduct city business, but some critics have questioned if there are more that haven't seen the light of day.
Calling it "another sordid episode in a long, tangled and distinctly Chicago saga," the Illinois Appellate Court has kept alive a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by the Denver attorney hired by former Mayor Richard M. Daley to oversee city hiring, only to be stripped of that power.
It was the Better Government Association that took the city to court to get the release of the mayor's private emails related to city business. WBBM's Steve Miller reports.
Blagojevich's legal team faces a particularly steep battle, given that the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already found that "it is not possible to call 168 months unlawfully high for Blagojevich's crimes."
Democrat Susana Mendoza says when she took over for Leslie Munger this month furniture had been removed, documents were missing and keys didn't match locks.
But Illinois electors gave the nod to Hillary Clinton, who carried the state. CBS 2 Political Reporter Derrick Blakley reports.
The president also lamented he couldn't do more to stop the killing in Syria. CBS 2 Political Reporter Derrick Blakley reports.
The Republican says Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and other Democratic lawmakers want to force a crisis after stopgap funding expires in January. WBBM's Craig Dellimore reports.
The governor signed a law providing state IDs for inmates as they leave prison, to ease their transition to life on the outside. CBS 2 Political Reporter Derrick Blakley reports.
Some Chicago aldermen have suggested allowing people with minor criminal convictions to become police officers, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel sounded open to the idea.
While crime does not respect municipal boundaries, police agencies in Cook County have no uniform way to compare their crime data or trace weapons used in crime, according to a report from a county task force on gun violence.
