Evanston’s Rules Committee is scheduled to consider a proposal from Reid to let noncitizens vote in municipal elections. A handful of politically progressive communities in a few states have adopted similar laws recently, but courts have ruled such provision unconstitutional in San Francisco and New York. Illinois’s state legislature has considered, but so far not acted on, legislation introduced this year that would permit non-citizens with children in public schools to vote in school board elections.

Pritzker acknowledged there have been mayors and governors in the past who didn’t get along but said he and Mayor Johnson are able to work things out even when they disagree.

Limiting members of the public to the third floor “offers, at best, second-class status and degrades public access to meetings of this vitally important public body,” BGA president David Greising wrote. “Lumping law-abiding and responsible citizens in with the disruptors, and clearing them from the chamber, denies their right to see their government at work.” Unless Johnson changes course, he could become the third consecutive mayor to be sued by the BGA.

Mayor Brandon Johnson campaigned on a pledge to end the city’s roughly $9 million-a-year ShotSpotter contract. But the company, now known as SoundThinking, announced in its latest earnings call that Chicago’s 2024 budget includes continued funding for ShotSpotter – as well as a new deal to pilot CrimeTracer, a law enforcement database and search engine.

Ald. Jeanette Taylor, 20th, responded “absolutely not” on Monday when asked if she regrets any of the her comments last week. Then, she said, “I felt like we’re not ready and it’s showing out in the wash…. We’re pretending like now we got the power, let us show you how it’s supposed to be done, and we look real stupid right now…. We were not ready because we haven’t been in government long enough to know how the government really runs. . . .You still have daddy Daley’s people still in these committees, still in these departments, so we’ve got

Moog guided CPM’s acquisition of the Sun-Times in 2021, which created the largest local nonprofit newsroom in the country. CPM says the Sun-Times digital audience has increased by 70% since the paper dropped its paywall in late 2022. The merger has not been all smooth sailing due, in part, to lengthy contract negotiations with the Sun-Times guild.

Ahead of Chicago’s brutal winter, the city has committed to “decompressing,” or moving out migrants from police stations into shelters and churches. Still, almost 600 migrants are sleeping outside or on the lobbies of precincts across the

The Catholic school at 4910 W. Addison St., closed earlier this year after merging with Pope Francis Academy. Migrants could move in early January, wrote Ald. Ruth Cruz in a letter to constituents. “Utilizing the space as a temporary shelter will alleviate the strain on police districts, allowing officers to refocus entirely on community safety.”

As an organizer and activist, Johnson was once blocking City leaders from taking the elevators to the fifth floor of City Hall, the very building Johnson now manages. “I just want to lift that up because I don’t want anyone to think that, somehow, I’m mayor of Chicago because we knocked on some doors, and we gave some speeches, and we raised some money,” he said. “I’m mayor of Chicago because there

“Don’t be fooled by Johnson’s winning smile and soaring, preacher’s son rhetoric, nor by Pritzker’s make-nice statements from the podium. There is real frustration behind the scenes on both sides, stemming from the migrant crisis, Chicago’s crime wave, a tug of war over leadership of the Democratic National Convention and the parade of tax increases and costly mandates being imposed on Chicago’s business community. It’s also at least tangentially tied to Pritzker’s presidential ambitions and his fears

When the pandemic hit, experts speculated office building values would decline 20%. Then the talk went to 40%. Now, it’s 60%, bolstered by the one completed sale of a downtown office property so far this year. Researchers at the University of Chicago crunched the data and concluded that a 40% hit downtown would lead to a 9% increase — $479 — in the annual tax bill for an average Chicago home.

At roughly 0.1% of the city’s recently passed $16.77 billion budget, the initial cost of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s effort to begin reopening Chicago’s city-run mental health clinics is minuscule. But the political ramifications are potentially huge. Johnson rode into office on a progressive wave powered by unions and activists who have long advocated that Chicago should return to having 19 city-run clinics, as it did in the 1980s, and grow those offices to also become bases for expanded nonpolice emergency response teams and a corps of new community care workers.

Last weekend, at least 14 people were shot, one fatally, in gun violence across Chicago, police said.