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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson refocuses on expanding Sustainable Community Schools

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. Sitting in a circle with dozens of students at Collins Academy on Chicago’s west side, Mayor Brandon Johnson asked a straightforward question: “What do you need?” Melvin Hines, a soft-spoken junior in purple track pants and a black zip-up […]

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Chicago mayor to ask City Council to spend $70M on migrant services

ALICE YIN and DAN PETRELLA Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — In an about-face, Mayor Brandon Johnson is now asking aldermen to approve using another $70 million in city funds to maintain this year’s migrant response. This week, the mayor’s office began briefing City Council members on plans to push through the item as a means to […]

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Lori Lightfoot hired to investigate Illinois mayor Tiffany Henyard

Politics By Megan Palin and Aneeta Bhole Published April 8, 2024, 9:33 p.m. ET The Illinois village of Dolton has voted in favor of a resolution to hire ex-Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to investigate its own leader, Tiffany Henyard, who is accused of misusing taxpayer funds and various other corrupt practices. Lightfoot, who lost her […]

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Mayor says Chiefs have “serious opportunity” to return to Dallas

Dallas mayor Eric Johnson seems determined to bring the Chiefs home. The franchise started as the AFL’s Dallas Texans, before surrendering the city to the NFL’s Cowboys and moving to Kansas City in 1963. On the heels of the landslide decision by Jackson County, Missouri voters to reject the extension of a sales tax to […]

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Lightfoot may be hired to investigate Dolton mayor, trustees – 301 – Gay Lesbian Bi Trans News

Lightfoot may be hired to investigate Dolton mayor, trustees 2024-04-06 This article shared 302 times since Yesterday A group of Dolton trustees is aiming to hire former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfootwho is also an ex-federal prosecutorto investigate Mayor Tiffany Henyard, media outlets reported. The group wants Lightfoot to investigate Henyard and village representatives in […]

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Chicago Mayor’s Homelessness Solution Fails to Convince Voters

Chicagoans last month rejected a hefty real estate tax hike meant to fund assistance for the city’s 68,000 homeless people, dealing a blow to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s progressive economic agenda. Fifty-two percent of voters said no to a March 19 referendum that sought to increase the transfer tax on properties over $1 million, claiming that […]

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Controversial Illinois mayor faces calls to resign in heated village meeting: ‘Disgrace’

DOLTON, Ill. (TND) — Residents of Dolton, Illinois took to their village hall Monday to express fury with their embattled mayor who has come under fire for alleged misuse of public funds. Dolton residents have questioned Mayor Tiffany Henyard’s leadership since February, when scrutiny of her spending habits began. Henyard has allegedly spent public funds […]

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Mayor Brandon Johnson defends alderman who spoke at rally in front of burned U.S. flag

CHICAGO (CBS) — Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday shrugged off calls from some alderpeople to remove progressive ally Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) as chair of the City Council Housing Committee as punishment for speaking at a pro-Palestinian rally where a protester had burned a U.S. flag last week. “I can be offended by someone’s presentation, […]

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Dolton mayor controversies • Ella French verdict • Pilsen bakery graffiti • and more

Ishawn Pitts (left) Tylo Eddins (right) 5. Man carjacks Uber driver in Chicago, picks up 2nd suspect before killing two people in random shooting: police Two men are accused of fatally shooting two people in Waukegan last month in what authorities describe as a random act of violence. Tylo Eddins and Ishawn Pitts both face […]

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Chicago City Council passes resolution for cease-fire in Gaza: 23-23 vote | #citycouncil

Protestors come together in Chicago demanding a cease-fire resolution. U.S. cities that have called for a cease-fire in Gaza Chicago San Francisco Richmond, Calif. Oakland, Calif. Cudahy, Calif. Bridgeport, Conn. Minneapolis Detroit Atlanta Dearborn, Mich Dearborn Heights, Mich Hamtramck, Mich Ypsilanti, Mich Seattle Albany, N.Y. Akron, Ohio Providence, R.I. Wilmington, Del. Source: Newsweek and The […]