Families of Chicago students with disabilities can apply for $500 city grants
Mayor Brandon Johnson noted families of children with disabilities were hit especially hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson noted families of children with disabilities were hit especially hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Police arrived at the scene sooner than if they had waited for the first 911 call.
The team is planning to hold a press conference with city officials on Wednesday to unveil their plans for a new publicly-owned stadium on the Museum Campus.
The council also approved $48 million in grant money from the state and federal government, much of which will be used to pay outstanding debt the city owes for staffing and shelter costs.
Overall, the mayor's borrowing plan would cost the city $2.4 billion through 2061.
Aldermen were set to vote Wednesday on a measure to require a full City Council vote before removing ShotSpotter from any wards, but two allies of the mayor moved to delay the vote.
The city already has budgeted $150 million to care for migrants this year, but the mayor's office has acknowledged that won't be enough for the entire year.
The City Council Finance Committee has endorsed the plan after the mayor agreed to give aldermen more oversight of the plan, but a final vote has been put off until Friday at the earliest.
The mayor's office has been briefing alderpeople this week on the request, which will be presented to the City Council Budget Committee on Monday.
Mayor Brandon Johnson, Civilian Office of Police Accountability Chief Administrator Andrea Kersten, and Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx discussed the release of video footage of a police shootout that killed 26-year-old Dexter Reed and wounded a Chicago police officer.
"Our big ideas in the city really require us to have a process that is smooth and comparable to those actually want to do business in Chicago."
The Archdiocese of Chicago will lease the former convent and former school building on the St. Bartholomew Church campus to the city for free.
The report lays out actions the city can take to simplify the administrative process for commercial developers and home builders.
Mayor Brandon Johnson declared April 5 "Giordano’s Pizza Day" in Chicago to celebrate the restaurant's 50th anniversary.
The mayor joined several local activists in urging the Biden administration to grant work permits to long-term undocumented immigrants, not just newly arrived asylum seekers.
Mayor Brandon Johnson will join the leaders of dozens of community groups calling on the White House to offer work permits to nearly 480,000 undocumented people who've been living in Illinois for decades.
Together, the projects would cost roughly $520 million and build 1,000 new apartment units downtown, with 319 of those units rented at affordable rates.
The project was a part of the LaSalle Street Reimagined initiative launched by Lori Lightfoot in 2022.
Pacione-Zayas, a former Illinois state senator, becomes the city's first Latina chief of staff, according to Johnson's office.
The City Council Police and Fire Committee on Monday approved a measure to require a City Council vote to halt the use of ShotSpotter technology in any given ward.
A proposal in City Council could upend Mayor Brandon Johnson's plan to end the use of ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in Chicago.
Soto has worked as the Senior Director of Community Impact for the Chicago Community Trust. The news came during a ribbon cutting for the new Lawson House.
A group of 15 City Council members want to strip Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) of his seat as chair of the Housing Committee.
A coalition of 21 alderpersons, seven other elected city officials, and representatives from 48 community organizations is asking the mayor to address migrant stays on a case-by-case basis.
The number of migrants staying in city-run shelters has dropped significantly in recent months, and the mayor's office said the five Park District sites are no longer needed to house migrants.
