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Chicago Sun-Times: Panel rejects plan for elected civilian board to oversee CPD
A City Council Committee on Monday shot down the most extreme of four pending proposals for civilian police review after one aldermen claimed the proposal was drafted to appease people who are “hateful of the police.”
Ald. Walter Burnett (27th), who is African-American, likened the ordinance championed by Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) to allowing the Ku-Klux Klan to “make a decision about me.”
Crain's Chicago Business: Ald. Tunney sics city inspectors on Wrigley construction work
After weeks of attacks from groups allied with owners of the Chicago Cubs, Ald. Tom Tunney, 44th, has fired a legal brushback: a cease-and-desist order over the latest construction work at Wrigley Field.
Tunney complained to the Chicago Department of Public Health, which has ordered the Cubs to stop storing metal girders, chunks of concrete and other materials from Wrigley renovation on a team-owned parking lot at the northeast corner of Clark and Grace streets, the alderman said.
WTTW Chicago Tonight: Aldermen Consider $2 Billion Plan to Get Lead Out of City Water
It’s a problem that has ramifications for public health, real estate – and possibly even violence.
City Council members on Monday debated a proposal to institute a new tax to help solve the problem of lead in Chicago residents’ water pipes. It could affect as many as 375,000 properties in Chicago.
WBEZ: 5 Things You Learn Sitting Through Cook County Budget Hearings
There were a batch of public hearings last week about Cook County’s proposed 2019 budget, a nearly $6 billion plan with no new taxes, fees, or fines.
A ritual ensued. A parade of elected and appointed officials who oversee the county’s jail, courts, health system, and more told County Board commissioners how the budget would impact their offices.
Daily Herald: Schaumburg plans 1 percent cut to tax levy
Though Schaumburg officials again plan to make a 1-percent cut to the property tax levy first enacted during the recession in 2009, they say newer factors than that economic downturn are reasons the village will still rely on a property tax to make ends meet in 2019.
Village Manager Brian Townsend said rising pension costs, the impact of online shopping on sales tax revenues, and the state’s financial struggles are major factors in keeping the property tax in place.