Allocations in the state’s budget have allowed organizers to offer subsidies to new homebuyers. But higher construction costs have led to higher prices — the average mortgage for the new homes ranges between $180,000 to $260,000, depending on the neighborhood.

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Police said in each incident, between two to seven people approached victims on the train cars and took or attempted to take property from victims by force—some going into victim’s pockets.

Across the state, the majority of detainable cases filed involved domestic violence charges, according to a report from the Loyola University Chicago Center for Criminal Justice Research. Numbers for detention have varied across counties, with some collar counties filing petitions to detain in domestic cases at much higher rates than Cook’s 16 percent. In McHenry County, petitions to detain were filed in about 45 percent of the 518 domestic violence cases. In DuPage, prosecutors sought detention in 56 percent of 1,630 domestic violence cases.

“Chicago can achieve full funding for our students, staff up our schools in critical areas, ensure salary increases that combat inflation and reward parents with greater investments in their children’s future. … It won’t improve teacher attendance without improving teacher support, recruitment and retention. It cannot improve the development and nurturing of the city’s children if educators cannot take care of their own.”

“After living here for nearly two decades, I now know what it’s like to voluntarily sign up to play on Charlie Browns baseball team: one humiliating, dignity-shredding loss after another.”

Will Johnson, of The Harris Poll: “A quarter of adults in the city and Cook County suburbs have a unique-to-Chicago winter holiday tradition, according to a new Harris Poll survey. … Growing this offseason fanbase would undoubtedly help Chicago’s hospitality sector finally recover from the COVID-19 shutdown in 2020 and, in turn, provide much-needed tax revenue to a municipality operating deep in the red.”

Inclusionary zoning usually requires developers to “set aside a proportion of units in market-rate residential developments to be made affordable for lower-income households,” effectively capping the rent that can be charged for those units. In reality it is targeted rent control.

“Maybe Johnson should recognize ‘no’ to $300 million in new taxes means ‘no’ to $300 million in new taxes.”

“Lurking in the shadow of formidable fiscal frictions is the spectre of a city shutdown. The inflexible dichotomy posed by Mayor Johnson—accept new property taxes or face shutdown—heightens the stakes.”