Decrying an unfunded mandate and scant notice about how to implement the hastily passed ordinance, several suburban park and school district leaders urged the county to exempt them from the union-backed initiative. With enforcement efforts kicking in next week, the park and school district leaders mounted a letter-writing campaign in recent days and pleaded their case at the Cook County Board meeting on Thursday.

Saying the village of Dolton has been financially mismanaged into insolvency by scandal-plagued Mayor Tiffany Henyard, attorneys representing families of two men killed in a police chase car crash have asked a Cook County court to potentially order the suburban village to raise taxes on residents to fund a $33.5 million jury verdict the families had won.

“There are individuals who are part of this criminal group, but simply because they do not have a criminal record or anything that can distinguish that they are part of that group, they have also been released within the United States.”

After flicking away the Hamas atrocities, Johnson discussed the crucible of the Middle East in terms of Black “liberation.” If you parse those comments, you can see he wasn’t just speaking of a desire to protect civilians and promote peace, a reasonable position many of us share, but to frame the Israeli-Hamas conflict in stark terms of the oppressor and the oppressed.

Johnson admitted that he doesn’t know if his statement on a ceasefire will influence the U.S. stance but said his duty as mayor requires him to “recognize people’s humanity” and “understand the value of what liberation … means for people.”

“Put simply, it’s been the fairest recovery on record,” Yellen said.

Through these new vendors, the city of Chicago reported that the new direction in food servicing is proving to be cost efficient. The new price the city will pay for providing to the shelters is $15-17 per person. Prior to the new contract the price per person was $21-$23 with Greater Chicago Food Depository and Open Kitchens.

Dealmaking in the Chicago area didn’t take quite as much of a hit as the nation overall, where sales dropped by 51% to about $347 billion as mismatched pricing expectations between buyers and sellers slowed activity, especially in the office sector. Nationally, there was a 32% drop in office sales volume in the fourth quarter of 2023 from the same time frame the previous year.

From left-of-center think tanks such as the Brookings Institution, Urban Institute and Progressive Policy Institute, to right-of-center public policy groups such as the American Enterprise Institute and the Alliance for Opportunity, there exists remarkable consensus on how to empower individuals to rise out poverty and into prosperity. Substantial consensus exists around seven “macro”-solutions to poverty.

Sheila Jackson Lee, a congresswoman from Texas, visited Chicago to raise money for her failed effort to become Houston’s mayor. Her son Jason Lee is a top adviser to Mayor Brandon Johnson.

Horrified residents of a Chicago neighborhood called 911 as they watched migrants ‘breaking into’ an apartment building – only to be told they were allowed in.

“It has gotten so bad in the Windy City that officials have begun erecting black plastic sheets to hide the migrants from airport users and city residents, allowing travelers only a small aisle of space to walk the hallways from one gate to another.”

Protestors filled City Hall on Wednesday as the Chicago City Council debated and ultimately delayed a vote on a resolution calling for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza. There were other controversial measures on the agenda, but the resolution ate up most of the council’s time.

Ald. Silverstein was disappointed by what she called a lack of respect and decorum during discussion of her resolution. “I can tell you that the people that we had on the box today for Holocaust Memorial Day were quite shaken by what happened here,” Silverstein said.

Cook County President Preckwinkle: “Cook County is well known for its criminal justice reform efforts, but we recognize that true justice extends even further into accessible and affordable healthcare for all.”