A 2015 bill, drafted by the ACLU, would have limited police to saving license plate data for just 30 days unless it was used in an investigation, among other restrictions.The bill was defeated. Illinois lawmakers have since tried two other times to regulate ALPRs, but both attempts failed. At least 16 states across the country have passed laws regulating how ALPRs are used.

Eligible individuals did not need to take any required action to have their convictions tossed out. Foxx’s office said it has 588 cases remaining in its system that fit the criteria for expungement, with some dating back to 1965.

Even those who supported the plan said they would vote for the program reluctantly, and only because so many people were already counting on the money, which will be awarded through a lottery.

Talking to reporters at the Red Line’s 35th Street/Bronzeville platform across from Guaranteed Rate Field, activist Tio Hardiman said rising crime on CTA trains demanded action from community groups and called on Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago Police Department to collaborate with volunteer patrols.

East Dundee officials claim the village has lost tax revenue from so many people dropping cable; They expect the tax will generate $25,000 in the first year and grow as more residents drop cable. In 2021, Chicago raised $37,193,927 from a similar tax — up from $29,625,536 in 2020.

A Magnificent Mile storefront space leased to Louis Vuitton and other high-end retailers has hit the market, testing investor demand for property on the slumping shopping strip. Nuveen Real Estate has hired CBRE to sell the 51,800 square foot space at 919 N. Michigan Ave., whose tenants include the French fashion house, David Yurman and Breitling, according to a CBRE email.

The journalist, named only as Rob, took Lightfoot to task during a question and answer session Wednesday, saying: ‘Real Chicagoans are asking me, how can you possibly even consider running for re-election for mayor of the city of the Chicago after all the harm you’ve caused?’

The reporter began by saying the mayor always starts her press conferences by saying that crime is down and the “economy is booming.” Lightfoot said that this wasn’t true and asked the journalist to continue with his question.

Asking rents continued to trend upward, increasing 7.5% quarter-over-quarter to $5.76 per square foot, according to the report, and seven million square feet of net absorption was observed. Vacancy fell to 6.8% — down 260 basis points from 2021.

Several Evanston residents, including Evanston Live TV co-host Meleika Gardner, have advocated for direct cash payments. “Getting new windows should not represent all of the pain (of Black people). I don’t understand who at the city told the Reparations Committee it had to be about housing because there’s no other way to prove that a Black person has experienced racism or discrimination.”

$5.6 million worth of the gas cards will be earmarked for residents of the South and West sides — as well as $3.75 million worth of the CTA cards, under a revised measure of the proposal released by the mayor’s office Tuesday.

“Where the hospitalization rates are going and the infection rates are going all seems to be positive. I am double-vaccinated and boosted so I feel pretty safe,” Metra commuter Brian Maher from Orland Park said.

The land’s been owned by the city but vacant for 15 years due to environmental and access issues, according to the city. The land is worth about $3.5 million, but it will be sold to the developer for $1, according to the city. The project is expected to create more than 250 jobs.

Said Starbucks employee and organizer Zero Muñoz, “It is a growing labor movement. It’s not just Starbucks, it is the workforce as a whole. There are so many other industries who are pushing to unionize right now and it’s amazing.”

Bring Chicago Home, a proposal that advocates for the homeless hope to see as a referendum on the ballot in Chicago, would more than triple the transfer tax on buyers paying $1 million or more for a residential or commercial property. The transfer tax, 0.775% of the purchase price, translates to $7,500 per million dollars. Bring Chicago Home would raise the transfer tax to 2.65%, or $26,500, with the entire $19,000 difference going to the fight against homelessness.