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Chicago Tribune: City of Chicago Law Department fined $62,500 for withholding police records
A federal judge has ordered the city of Chicago to pay $62,500 for withholding records in a wrongful death lawsuit, marking the eighth time Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration has been sanctioned for failing to turn over potential evidence in a police misconduct case.
The city agreed to the amount this month after U.S. District Court Judge Joan Gottschall upheld an earlier ruling that the city acted in “bad faith” when it ignored a court order and made little effort to provide documents to the lawyer for the family of 20-year-old Divonte Young, who was shot and killed by an officer five years ago.
Chicago Tribune: With enrollment plunging, SIU Carbondale chancellor pushes a radical overhaul
Faced with plummeting enrollment and deteriorating finances, the chancellor at Southern Illinois University is proposing a radical reorganization that has spurred fierce backlash from many faculty members and stoked broad confusion about how it would be implemented.
SIU Carbondale Chancellor Carlo Montemagno is pushing to eliminate academic departments and department heads, a highly unorthodox move that eschews the customary structures of higher education. In its place, he wants to introduce a hierarchy of colleges, schools and programs that would move related areas of study under the same roofs and foster easier collaboration.
Daily Herald: Stalled Schaumburg hotel project seeks tax incentive
Schaumburg trustees have unanimously recommended the village’s endorsement of a Cook County tax incentive to save a two-hotel project that has already been approved but is financially stalled.
In March, the trustees approved a Holiday Inn and adjoining Holiday Inn Express at 30 N. Martingale Road for what would be the village’s 31st and 32nd hotels. The 5.3-acre site has been vacant since the former farm it belonged to was annexed by Schaumburg 30 years ago.
Daily Herald: Wheeling approves $64 million Uptown 500 development
Another piece of Wheeling’s emerging downtown of apartments, restaurants and retail space has won approval from the village board.
The village board unanimously approved plans Monday for Uptown 500 — a $64 million development with 262 apartments, 12,000 square feet of commercial space and a six-story parking garage — at the northwest corner of Dundee Road and Northgate Parkway.