These are proposals that could get public subsidies for the proposed revitalization of La Salle Street, although projects under consideration still represent more than $1 billion in private investment and possibly more than 2,000 residential units. Two of the active proposals involve the 105 W. Adams St. building, which is in foreclosure.

The emails ranged from generic fundraising appeals to invitations to private town halls and requests for help gathering petitions, newly obtained records show.

“Those things never stand a chance against large trucks in the city,” @toombsday tweeted in January. The traffic calming is just another component of the city’s Vision Zero safety campaign, begun in 2017 with the goal of eliminating traffic fatalities in the city by 2026.

The Fort Lauderdale Police Department alone recently added eight former Chicago cops. Officer Michael Molitor went to St. Petersburg. “Down here it seems like, ‘Hey, we want you guys,’ and they’re getting quality over quantity in Florida,” he said.

Theft is driving the overall increase in crime. Car theft is up 114% since 2018, and other thefts increased by 32% since 2018. Just last year, motor vehicle theft increased by 102% and theft by 56%.

Downtown and surrounding neighborhoods like Fulton Market are designated low-affordability communities, allowing developers of new properties to get the steep assessment cuts, that taper off over 30 years, if they keep 20% of the units affordable for families making no more than 60% of area median income. About 17,000 units across greater downtown are in the planning stages.

“This bill still allows those local governments to raise their property taxes as if the Bears were paying property taxes on the full $5 billion of their project,” Americans for Prosperity Illinois State Director Brian Coston said. “If they can’t pay property taxes, then maybe they should stay at Soldier Field where they don’t have to pay property taxes.”

The state comptroller says Lightfoot instructed her pension board appointees to deny “duty disability” salary and health benefits to police officers, including Mendoza’s brother, after they got career-ending coronavirus complications. Sgt. Joaquin Mendoza was hospitalized for 72 days and lost the use of his kidneys and his left arm after contracting the coronavirus on the job, according to his lawyers.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, 338 downtown restaurants and bars have closed, the majority of which have been fast-casual and quick-service restaurants. Pedestrian traffic remains lower during weekdays, but inches closer to pre-pandemic levels, averaging 85% of 2019 foot traffic in the final months of 2022, according to a report from the Chicago Loop Alliance. Office occupancy in the Loop grew to 48%, from 31% in 2021 — in line with national trends that hit

While DeSantis made mention of Illinois’ high taxes, COVID-19 restrictions, critical race theory and school choice, he spent several minutes shaming Chicago for following New York in eliminating cash bail for nonviolent offenders. “There used to be, you could be a Democrat or Republican and still want law and order,” DeSantis said. “Just because you’re running in

“It’s just it’s a huge shock. It makes us feel violated,” said Aliki Marinos, who is fighting a 140% increase on the property taxes at her family business. The bill went from about $42,000 in 2021 to about $109,000 in 2022. “A 50-plus-year-old business in Chicago was starting from scratch and manufacturing. This is kind of what Chicago was built on in the old days,” she said.

The most populous county in Illinois is currently bringing “racial… equity” into its criminal justice system using a consulting agency which promulgates critical race theory, calling the move “unprecedented.” One of her papers described “positioning people of color as knowledge producers about the institutional and interpersonal effects of racism,” “confronting the tactics of white denial,” and “promoting consciousness about systemic racism.”