Companies cutting back on office space as they adjust to post-pandemic work patterns keep emptying out office buildings in the Chicago suburbs. But the demand headaches are far less painful for landlords that own the newest and nicest properties.

The City Council Ethics Committee on Monday advanced an ordinance that restricts when the city’s Law Department can attend investigative interviews and lays out when city attorneys can claim attorney-client privilege to avoid sharing records sought by the inspector general.

“The people of Chicago don’t trust government,” Ald. Matt O’Shea said before the vote. “What I’ve witnessed here these last two years, with our government — I’m talking about this building, this room — they’re not wrong.”

Drivers should celebrate after the devices have issued over $1.5 billion in fines and failed to make roads any safer.

“Perhaps no two schools represent the importance of school choice better than Chicago Hope Academy and Manley High School on the Westside. This contrast highlights much of what’s broken in the Chicago Teachers Union’s (CTU) approach to education, particularly their relentless efforts to block competition and protect union jobs at the expense of students.”

Kenneth Weddington, 28, is accused of posting on Facebook on July 4, “BOMB PLANTED AT YOUR OFFICE FOR SUPPORT THIS (expletive) AND BEING A FOLLOWER,” according to the police report, which says Weddington was referring to Ald. Jason Ervin.

The lack of urgency to respond to the revelations that both former Ald. Ed Burke and former House Speaker Michael Madigan routinely sought to corruptly leverage their elected office for perks or cash — without anyone around them blowing the whistle or even voicing the mildest objection — represents a missed opportunity to pay down Chicago’s “deficit of legitimacy,” Inspector General Deborah Witzburg said.

The Chicago Public Safety DataHub, developed by the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago and the University of Chicago, will track the most recent data on violent crime in Chicago and allow users to compare it to public safety data of other major cities. The DataHub will also measure the effectiveness of the Civic Committee’s investments in local Community Violence Intervention initiatives.

This latest push for additional dwelling units comes amid growing urgency around the city’s affordable housing crisis. Chicago is short more than 120,000 affordable housing units, and the state of Illinois needs to build 227,000 during the next five years to keep up with demand. But the proposal is facing resistance from some city council members, especially those representing districts largely zoned for single-family housing.

“I think you can look no further than Seattle, Portland, Chicago [and] New York,” said the national VP of the Fraternal Order of Police. “All of these cities have basically told their police officers, ‘We don’t support you. We’re not gonna be there for you when you need us. We’re gonna try to defund you when given the opportunity.’

The dissension in the City Council will only the make the process of agreeing on solutions to close the budget gap — potential new taxes, fees, service cuts or furloughs — politically tougher. “Somebody’s going to have to support something,” Ald. Nick Sposato said. “Pick your poison.”

Months past a federal deadline, more than 90% of at-risk Chicagoans haven’t been told their drinking water could be unsafe. Of the 10 cities with the most lead pipes, only Chicago has confirmed it hasn’t finished sending out notices.

The Chicago Teachers Union wants Gov. JB Pritzker to allocate more than $1 billion to CPS. Johnson supported that move on Sunday during his church discussion. “The city of Chicago and districts across the state are not fully funded by the state of Illinois,” Johnson said. “It’s one of those areas where I’m gonna need more people to get active, to challenge not just city government, but the state government as well to fully fund our schools, because the crisis that we are experiencing is a crisis of the result of failures of the past.”

“When it comes to the health and safety of our residents, Chicago has never waited on Springfield. We led on tobacco restrictions. We took bold action on flavored vaping. We’ve implemented innovative public health measures time and again when state action fell short. Now we must do the same with intoxicating hemp products.”