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The bill sponsored by state Sen. Kimberly Lightford, D-Hillside, would limit sales of most hemp-derived products to licensed cannabis dispensaries.
A Forest Park firm will repair and restore the statue, and it will return in the spring.
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Sunday was briefing members of the Chicago City Council on his latest ideas to get his 2025 budget approved by year’s end.
Former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell, who stole $53.7 million from the northwest Illinois city, and former Northbrook CEO Eric Bloom, who lost his investors more than half a billion, saw their federal sentences slashed Thursday.
Chicago’s point person on air pollution and extreme heat was pushed out, raising questions about the mayor’s commitment to neighborhoods choked by pollution.
Judge E. Kenneth Wright Jr. acquired a handful of Chicago homes from the estates of deceased clients when he was a solo law practitioner in the 1990s. Now, two families claim he took advantage of his elderly clients.
The 911 caller and his partner told the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ that Samantha Steele, a Democratic member of the Cook County Board of Review, tried to flee the scene of the Nov. 11 crash before police arrived — but her car was too damaged to drive.
That path was one of five options that CPS leaders presented to Board of Education members Thursday for how to address the proposed closings.
Some City Council members say Johnson’s budget should include more spending cuts rather than increases to property taxes. Even some progressive allies of the mayor said Johnson’s budget process lacked consensus building.
Even some members of the mayor’s Progressive Caucus, including Alds. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez, Jessie Fuentes and Angela Clay, were refusing to play along by passing a budget balanced with the help of a $68.5 million property tax and a slew of other taxes.
He’s the latest in a line of mayors who’ve budgeted annually for hundreds of ghost cops. It’s not the only fictional part of his CPD budget.
IBM’s decision is a huge win for Gov. JB Pritzker, who has for years sought to make Illinois a global leader in quantum computing and innovation. The announcement comes a day after the City Council gave the multibillion-dollar quantum computing campus final zoning approval.
Detective Allan Reddins was killed in the line of duty on Nov. 29. He joined the Oak Park Police Department in 2019 after serving for two years as a Metra police officer.
A study of how to improve the county’s property tax system comes as more homeowners complain they’re struggling to pay skyrocketing bills.
Hundreds packed an Acero board meeting in Gage Park to vent their anger directly at leadership to persuade them to reverse course on a plan to shutter seven schools at the end of the current school year.
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