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Nonbinding referendums in February found widespread support for protections from gentrifcation among residents near the Obama Center, as well as for a plan to build affordable housing on the largest city-owned lot in Woodlawn. Thursday, two City Council members introduced a proposal to expand protections in place in Woodlawn to include South Shore, as well as $12 million set aside for grants and down-payment assistance, $20 million for home improvement grants, and $2.3 million for grants to pay off property tax debt incurred by long-term residents.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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There’s no gentrification. The neighborhood will turn hispanix or latinks. Across the street from Obama’s rarely visited library will be taco carts and panhandlers.
Obammy — the self-described community organizer — refuses to listen this community’s issues — hypocrisy much?