See our own column linked here on this radicalism.

The team offered economic projections last year that the project would generate a $9 billion impact, with nearly $4 billion in overall labor income, with

Chicago office occupancy was about 50% of pre-COVID-19 levels during the last week of May, according to data from Kastle Systems. Even on the busiest days in the middle of the week, that means fewer people downtown, and fewer potential riders for the water taxi. The company also eyes Metra

It takes time for academic work to filter into politics; Friedman’s pro-business radicalism had to wait a decade for Ronald Reagan as the 1970s saw government regulation of evermore areas of the economy. The critiques of capitalism I heard echoing around Booth’s Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired halls ring true: Politicians all-too-frequently boost big business and get a small slice of oligopolistic profits back as donations.

“At present, our court has 15 (fifteen) circuit judge vacancies, with two additional retirements scheduled for July,” Evans wrote. “In addition, I have received letters from 3 (three) associate judges indicating their intent to retire in July and have been informed that an additional 6 (six) judges may retire as well.” He further acknowledged that there has been “an increase in judicial transfer requests” from judges assigned to divisions where caseloads are increasing due to the shortage. But there’s no escape.

Historically, the Chicago Public Schools and the City of Chicago have had a close financial relationship, partly established in state statute and partly through intergovernmental agreements. As a result, the City provides the school district with significant annual subsidies. This is a situation unique to Chicago; No other Illinois municipalities have a financial responsibility to their school systems.

Catalytic converter thieves have struck more than 17,000 times in Chicago since 2019. And they almost never get caught. Only 34 of those reported thefts — 0.2% — ended with an arrest. The thieves — often the bottom level in organized crime rings — have hit every part of the city.

“Chicagoans know all too well how the Bears turn to intimidation to get their way with pliant politicians. During Mayor Richard M. Daley’s reign, the team torqued the screws hard on City Hall to renovate Soldier Field. The result was a saucer-shaped monstrosity that permanently marred a memorial to World War I U.S. soldiers, and heaped $432 million in public debt on the backs of taxpayers. When the deal was first inked, Daley pledged

More than 40 migrant families said they’ve been at this location for a month; Some children are even enrolled in summer learning programs at a school nearby, and their parents said moving them will further add to their already mounting emotional trauma. City leaders have said the migrant families are being moved elsewhere to make room for migrants still sleeping on police station floors.

“We knew then what we know now: If workers want to shape their destiny, we must organize inside the workplaces where we have the most influence and maximize our deep connections as teachers to a broader set of social forces.”

The DOJ has budgeted $100 million for anti-violence programs, modeled in part on the programs that cover Chicago’s most-violent neighborhoods with former gang members who recruit their one-time peers to enroll in a year- to 18-month program of therapy, educational and job trainings. Programs in Chicago in 2022 received more than $120 million from state, federal and philanthropic funding, a massive expansion from around $7 million devoted to the programs in 2017.

The Cook County Guaranteed Income Pilot issued its first payments at the end of last year. The more than 3,000 participants are given monthly payments of $500. The $42 million pilot is the largest publicly-funded guaranteed income program in American history.

“This new policy is one of the most important and significant expansions of our members’ rights outside of our contract negotiations,” CTU President Stacy Davis Gates said. “This should be the norm for every woman who works in any industry — and any parent who works in any industry — to nurture their child, but to also have an opportunity to heal their bodies.”

While CPS could not