Rahm Emanuel's New City Spending Plan Called 'Good News Budget'
It's different, because almost $800 million in property tax and water tax hikes have finally reduced the city's red ink from underfunded pensions.
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It's different, because almost $800 million in property tax and water tax hikes have finally reduced the city's red ink from underfunded pensions.
It took 18 months for all three players to reach a tentative agreement, and according to labor expert Bob Bruno, everyone walks away with a win and a loss.
Several Cook County suburbs have begun pushing back against the county's newly-approved paid sick leave ordinance.
Declaring city finances were "back on solid ground" after enacting unpopular tax hikes to shore up various employee pension funds, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday announced a 2017 budget that would allow Chicago to hire hundreds of new police officers.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to open an elite high school that once was to be named after President Barack Obama has been put on the back burner, as part of the financial package that averted a teachers' strike at the Chicago Public Schools.
Chicago Public Schools parents breathed a sigh of relief – and perhaps let out a few sleep-deprived yawns – after the district reached a tentative contract agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union at the 11th hour before a threatened strike Monday night.
Karen Lewis said she was optimistic, during a media briefing at 10 p.m. Monday, two hours away from a deadline to declare a strike if no deal is reached.
The day after the second debate was like the aftermath of a gutter fight.
Trump entered Sunday night's debate desperate to steady his floundering campaign.
A defiant Donald Trump insisted Saturday he would "never" abandon his White House bid, facing an intensifying backlash from Republican leaders across the nation who called on him to quit the race following the release of his vulgar and sexually charged comments caught on tape.
Same-day voter registration will be allowed in Illinois in the general election because an appeals court ruled Friday that a challenge to the law won't be resolved until after Nov. 8.
An old Walgreens will be turned Monday into an official Chicago Board of Elections Annex in downtown.
In between fund-raising appointments, President Obama on Friday cast his ballot for November's election.
Amid an ongoing Justice Department probe of its policies and procedures regarding the use of force, the Chicago Police Department has unveiled new limits on how and when officers can use force in the line of duty.
Sarah Ma, a parent and local school council member at Alexander Graham Bell Elementary School, pleaded with the mayor's office to support an ordinance that would require uncommitted tax increment financing money to go back to CPS in times of financial distress.
