The demolition fee is based on a similar “teardown tax” in neighboring Evanston that funds affordable housing development and has been in place more than a decade. Chicago charges developers $15,000 per building teardown, or $5,000 per unit, whichever is greater. The teardown fee applies through 2024 to certain areas in Pilsen and around The 606.

After noting the identification of Samuel Parsons-Salas by several witness, the video of the shootings and his previous record of violence, the judge ordered him held without bail.

Among them, a $5 million grant program incentivizes businesses to open up in Chicago’s financial district along LaSalle Street.

“Foxx’s decisions to impose new limitations and harassment of officers serving warrants and her dropping opposition to a petition of innocence for the heinous crime of the slaughter of two innocent people apparently provoked no media inquiries. There was absolute silence.”

The City Council voted 39-5 to approve the zoning changes Bally’s needs to build its $1.7 billion casino, hotel, and entertainment complex along the Chicago River. Ald. Walter Burnett, whose ward will be home to the casino, said it is a “big deal, because it can change the face of that community because of these opportunities.”

The reduced congestion is expected to save $185 million annually in lost productivity caused by delayed commuters. The interchange accommodates 400,000 vehicles every day, about 25% of which are trucks. Reconstruction of the interchange that connects the Dan Ryan, Kennedy and Eisenhower expressways began in 2013.

“Those jobs are going to be a mix of pilots, flight attendants, ground workers and technicians, and will also probably include people at our corporate headquarters,” United spokesperson Maddie King said. United has about 14,000 employees in the Chicago area, including 4,000 employees at its Willis Tower headquarters and about 900 network operations employees in Arlington Heights.

William Kohles, 42, has been charged with a felony count of threatening a public official after he allegedly sent a message in which he repeatedly threatened to shoot Lightfoot if she didn’t reduce crime in the city.

The new TIF district is controversial because it isn’t in the area where the money will be spent — Ald. Anthony Beale has called it a “rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul” approach.

School district officials say they are not sure how much the school will eventually cost. In a statement, they said the new estimate is based on 2022 construction costs, whereas the old estimate was based on 2019 costs.

“Here’s one uncomfortable truth that the RTA should be discussing: Chicago actually does a much better job of advocating for transit expansion, or capital expenditure, that it does providing adequate service that closely matches actual demand. Lines, we can extend. Stations, we can improve. Service, it appears, befuddles us.”

Roughly 40% of that spending took place after students returned to campuses for in-person learning in September 2021, at a time when leadership changes left the district without a top IT official for more than a year. Once computers get to the schools, the district has no systematic way to track how they are being used. And the lack of a systemwide digital learning plan has left some educators seeking guidance on how to incorporate the computers into learning — and in some cases, leaving hundreds of devices to gather dust in storage.