Takeaways From Lightfoot’s First Chicago City Council Meeting
Chicago’s new mayor scored a big win on Wednesday, and also made it clear that she has a very different way of handling the City Council.
Chicago’s new mayor scored a big win on Wednesday, and also made it clear that she has a very different way of handling the City Council.
Ahead of her first City Council meeting, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot detailed her legislative priorities for her first 100 days in office.
A company on the Southwest Side plans to build Chicago three-flats in a factory. Production time: six days.
We’re keeping an eye on City Hall’s revolving door: where Rahm Emanuel’s top aides are going, and who Lori Lightfoot taps to replace them.
On Friday, Lightfoot’s transition team unveiled an ambitious policy blueprint for her first term.
Emanuel’s legacy of city development was to build bigger, taller and faster. But his aggressive approach had vocal critics.
The city’s contract with the FOP Lodge 7 is the most expensive and contentious labor agreement facing the new mayor.
To help us unpack the “Chicago Way,” host Melba Lara talked to WBEZ City Politics Reporter Claudia Morell and started by asking her, how she would even go about defining Aldermanic Privilege.
Education advocacy groups Raise Your Hand and the Grassroots Collaborative want a preliminary injunction to stop payouts from the TIF.
Votes on two major real estate projects were pushed to Wednesday after Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot urged a delay.