Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson launches campaign for Chicago mayor
The race is getting bigger as another candidate is jumping into the race for Chicago mayor.
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The race is getting bigger as another candidate is jumping into the race for Chicago mayor.
The news conference will happen in City Hall at 2:30 p.m.
Chicago's mayors haven't had any pay raises since 2006, but a proposal from Mayor Lori Lightfoot could change that starting in 2024.
"We believe that CPS is unable to separate our former CEO and founder from what's currently going on at Urban Prep, the current leadership that exist. And that's problematic."
Chicago Public Schools leadership has recommended the Chicago Board of Education revoke the charters from Urban Prep's campuses in Englewood and Bronzeville
Young, an innocent social worker, was handcuffed naked as officers swarmed her home in a botched raid in 2019.
The group is calling on the city to raise the real estate transfer tax on high-end property sales, using that money to invest in affordable housing and services for the homeless.
The takeaway, for the most part, is that the city is in a good fiscal spot. But not everyone agrees.
The mayor is foregoing her original plan for a 2.5% property tax increase, which officials estimated would have cost the average owner of a $250,000 home approximately $34 next year.
The city's partnership with Mexico City dates back 30 years.
Owners of buildings on LaSalle Street between Washington Street and Jackson Boulevard are eligible to respond to the invitation for proposals in order possibly to receive city support.
Chicago city and Illinois state leaders are hoping their announcement of two new building projects will lure Chicago workers back downtown in person.
As a rise in book bans is happening nationwide, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is declaring Chicago a book sanctuary city.
Knudsen has already filed paperwork organizing a campaign committee to run for a full term in 2023.
Lightfoot is testifying Thursday along with other Great Lakes mayors at a federal field hearing on the Infrastructure Act.
The mayor's office said the advisory council includes residents and community groups from the neighborhoods surrounding the permanent casino site in River West, as well as experts on a range of topics related to the casino.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot's office confirmed the latest group of 103 migrants arrived at Union Station around 3 p.m. Wednesday
Garcia would almost certainly become the instant favorite to unseat Lightfoot, after forcing then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel into a runoff election in 2015.
The activists are having a hard time keeping up, as they are not really given a heads-up of when the migrants will arrive in Chicago from Texas – until it has already happened.
The bus of families brings the total of people bused here to 125.
The migrants arrived on a bus that let them off outside Union Station Wednesday night.
More than a fifth of the City Council is now either leaving or has already left mid-term.
In the years following the shooting death of Laquan McDonald by Chicago Police, an effort has been made to bring the community into the decision-making process around police policy.
Businesses found out about contracting opportunities in fields including construction, information tech and transportation.
It will include more than 70 units and the project is expected to finish in 2024.
