The plaintiff, Marianne G. Dwyer, alleges that the city violated Illinois Traffic Law by reducing the urban speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph in a long a stretch of Clark Street, between Maple and Oak, without proper signage. She is seeking a refund for all tickets paid by drivers cited in that zone.

For Racquel Fields, owner of Hyde Park’s 14 Parish Restaurant and Rhum Bar, though she agrees that minimum wage needed to be raised, the speed at which it increased is difficult for her business to keep up with. “As a business owner, it stops me from increasing what I already do. It limits my ability to keep creating more environments, to hire more workers and create spaces where they have increased ability to develop their skills and be paid very well doing so.”

The $156.2 million spent between December 2022 and January of this year includes some money from the state, money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and money from the city. But it does not appear to include how much the city has spent within its own agencies – such as the Department of Streets and Sanitation, or the Chicago Public Schools to educate school-aged new arrivals.

This location was built at the site of a former CVS store as a part of the $160 million investment from the Illinois Department of Human Services to assist with the ongoing “humanitarian crisis.” Families and individuals with disabilities will be prioritized.

“The good news is in his first budget, Mayor Brandon Johnson recognized this as a big issue by adding $307 million to the city’s pension fund. The bad news is projected pension payments for 2024 came in $335 million higher than originally estimated. That more than offsets what the city added to the fund. The only way to truly address this problem is through structural reform.”

The share of available office space in the central business district at the end of the year inched up to an all-time high of 23.8%, from 23.7% at the end of the third quarter, according to data from real estate services firm CBRE. This occupancy rate measures how much space is under lease, not actual usage from day-to-day.

Ald. Marty Quinn noted the Chicago Lawn District has “just north of 250 officers” serving a population of 250,504 and a “23.1 square-mile” district. That ratio of 10 officers for every 10,000 residents is “the worst in the city,” even though the district is “No. 1” in calls for service and sheer volume of crime, he said. “Response times are bad, and constituents are frustrated. … The district is too big, too busy, and the good police officers of the 8th District are actually being set up to fail by the city of Chicago.”

“The investigation showed that the school did not follow basic internal controls procedures in that they gave the assistant principal near-total control over the school’s receipt and processing of electronic payments and failed to maintain adequate records of receipts and expenditures,” the report read. “One of the reasons that the assistant principal had so much autonomy was that the other administration members did not understand how the electronic accounts worked.”

According to the Building Owners and Managers Association of Chicago, the referendum language lists three potential tax adjustments under the umbrella of a single question, on which voters can simply vote yes or no. And the co-plaintiffs allege that presentation is unconstitutional. “The binding referendum would force voters to approve or reject three separate policies in one question, including a tax decrease, to manipulate voters into approving two separate tax increases,” reads the BOMA/Chicago press release.

“I had a job to do, a mission to serve, and I believe I accomplished that mission,” she said. She boasted about shifting her office’s focus from low-level crimes to violent cases. When she took office in 2016, Foxx said her office’s most common charge was shoplifting. She raised the threshold for felony shoplifting from $300. Now her office’s most-charged offense is gun possession. She said her office prosecuted 90% of

“There are just black holes in terms of where devices were,” Inspector General William Fletcher said, noting that every school seemed to do audits differently and no one was held accountable. At 36 schools, all the devices assigned to students were marked as lost or stolen, but Fletcher said it was not clear there was an expectation for students to return the devices. One teacher was listed as losing 10 computers in one year, but eight were later found just sitting in the school.

“We are public servants and we do want to serve and we want to do what’s right for everybody, including people that are new to our various communities,” Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso said. he said sharing information between communities is one way to get closer to solving this crisis.