The Tribune’s claim also accuses Perplexity of distributing fabricated content, also known as “hallucinations,” next to the Tribune’s trademark, making the mistakes appear as mistakes by the paper’s reporters and editors. The New York Times filed a separate suit against the company the day after the Tribune, also accusing the company of copyright infringement.

“There can be no meaningful, credible accountability — and we cannot hope to foster public trust — if we cannot, at the most basic level, actually ensure that discipline is implemented where we have found misconduct,” city Inspector General Deborah Witzburg said in a statement.

Litigation is ongoing to determine whether the county is responsible for paying the homeowners for their losses as a result of these tax sales. Since 2019, more than 1,000 Cook County homeowners, including 125 senior citizens, have lost their homes and all their equity, often over tax debts of less than $1,000. Their homes were worth more than $108 million total, but the families received nothing.

The Social Media Amusement Tax is imposed on “social media businesses that collect consumer data from more than 100,000 Chicago consumers in a calendar year.” The rate of the tax is $0.50 per the number of Chicago consumers in excess of 100,000, calculated on a monthly basis.

The alternative revenue plan embraces Johnson’s proposed 15 percent tax on cloud computing, but includes no corporate head tax and no increase in Chicago’s $9.50 a month garbage collection fee. Instead, it relies on raising Chicago’s shopping bag tax; licensing newly legalized video gambling terminals; broadening a downtown congestion fee zone and taxing off-premise liquor sales.

A statement from The Department of Homeland Security reads, in part, “As we said a month ago, we aren’t leaving Chicago and operations are ongoing.”

The number of finance roles in Illinois as a whole is down 2.7% since Griffin left to 397,000 in September, according to data from the state’s Department of Employment Security. That’s a big setback for Chicago, a city that gave birth to the modern futures industry in the late 1800s and is home to CME Group Inc. and Cboe Global Markets Inc., some of the top derivatives exchanges.

The Hispanic owner of the popular Beat Kitchen restaurant, who was booted by City Hall out of his spot on Chicago’s busy Riverwalk, says Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is black, and his administration, which is dominated by black deputies and appointees, broke the law by allegedly rigging the process of selecting Riverwalk restaurants to ensure a black-owned business landed the lucrative spot.

Without the garbage collection fee hike, the only political hills that Johnson has to die on are the revenue estimates and the corporate head tax. His latest version includes a $33 a month per employee fee on companies with 500 or more employees. As for the meeting with Johnson, Ald. Samantha Nugent said, “I just wish it could have been a tad more collegial.”

“This matters more than ever because capital, businesses and talent have never been more mobile. … Policies such as the corporate head tax and the expanded cloud services tax threaten to make Chicago’s fiscal problems worse over time by discouraging job creation and economic activity in a city that is already falling behind its peers.”

“This is going to continue to happen unless we change some rules,” said UChicago professor Chris Berry.

“Here in Chicago, hate crimes against Jews are up 58 percent from 2023 to 2024. … Antisemitism threatens not only Jewish Chicagoans but also the integrity of our city itself.”