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CPD has said police did not assist ICE at all during an operation when federal agents arrested 10 people at a South Loop ...
"At no point did CPD assist in immigration enforcement. All actions taken by CPD during this incident were in accordance with ...
Planned by PGBS MGR LLC and designed by Kennedy Mann, the site at 6659 N. Kedzie in Chicago is approved for 47 townhome ...
The future of a “snap curfew" for Chicago teens will come down to a vote on whether to overturn Mayor Brandon Johnson's veto ...
And Johnson is not entirely wrong. Since 1995, Chicago’s mayor has had the sole authority to appoint board members, who then vote on the school district’s CEO, without City Council input.
The Chicago City Council Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights has approved a mandate for the city to investigate the ...
As Chicago’s City Council enters its 100th year under its modern form, some alderpersons, good government advocates and political science experts say that despite incremental progress, ...
Chicago’s 50 City Council members each represent far fewer people than their counterparts in other big cities. This contributes to their tendency to focus on ward-level constituent services, as ...
At a special session of Chicago’s City Council last Thursday, aldermen adopted a new slate of committees and chairmen — 28 total, up from the council’s existing 19. In a sign of an ...
City Council members have until Sept. 2 to decide whether to accept the raise, which will boost pay to $142,772 for the 30 alderpersons who have accepted all annual pay raises.
Chicago’s 50 aldermen have until Sept. 15 — Wednesday — to decline a pay raise of nearly 5.5% for next year. If they don’t formally reject the raise, it will kick in automatically on Jan. 1.