Food trucks fight for the right to exist

By Austin Berg

09/15/2016

City officials in Chicago and across the state are crushing a pillar of the culinary community. But food trucks are fighting back.

TAGS: Chicago, food trucks, jobs, regulations

Chicago utility-tax hike shows need for taxpayer bill of rights

08/10/2016

Under a taxpayer bill of rights, Chicago City Council would have to seek voter approval before raising taxes.

TAGS: Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, taxes, utility tax

Illinois General Assembly passes law allowing creation of ‘super TIFs’

By Chris Lentino

07/20/2016

A law passed by the Illinois General Assembly in June allows Chicago to create new transit-based super TIFs, adding more opportunities for city-run slush funds to divert and hoard property-tax dollars.

TAGS: Chicago, ILGA: Illinois General Assembly, Rahm Emanuel, TIF: Tax Increment Financing

Chicago City Council aims to crowd ballot with needless referendums

By Chris Lentino

07/17/2016

City Council violates procedural rules and plays political games to put popular, but toothless, measures on the ballot and protect the mayor and bureaucrats from any real challenges to their power.

TAGS: ballot, ballot referendums, Chicago, Chicago City Council, Rahm Emanuel

Chicago City Council committee passes resolution supporting expansion of record sealing

By Bryant Jackson-Green

07/16/2016

In a July 11 resolution, Chicago City Council’s Committee on Public Safety urged the General Assembly to pass “meaningful sealing reform” to help ex-offenders re-enter the job market and their communities more successfully.

TAGS: Chicago, criminal justice reform, expungement, record sealing

Chicago passes new rules on Uber and Lyft

By Austin Berg

06/22/2016

The city will require rideshare drivers to complete an online course before hitting the road, and will allow ridesharing platforms such as Uber and Lyft to continue conducting their own background checks.

TAGS: Chicago, Lyft, Rahm Emanuel, regulations, rideshare, Uber

Chicago’s new Airbnb ordinance greets visitors to the city with a 21 percent tax bill

By Chris Lentino

06/22/2016

The city’s new ordinance will punish visitors to the city with a 21 percent hotel tax bill.

TAGS: Airbnb, regulations

Instead of whacking Uber, Evanston looks to lift burden on taxis

By Austin Berg

06/21/2016

The city of Evanston offers a path forward for governments to level the playing field between traditional taxis and ridesharing.

TAGS: collaborative economy, Lyft, rideshare, Uber

Uber and Airbnb ordinances show Chicago ushering in new era of hyperregulation

By Chris Lentino

06/21/2016

In the face of fleeing residents, the Chicago City Council has chosen to add more and more layers of regulation instead of reforming.

TAGS: Airbnb, Chicago, collaborative economy, Lyft, Rahm Emanuel, regulations, Uber

Uber, Lyft threaten to leave Chicago

By Austin Berg

06/18/2016

Chicago City Council is one vote away from enacting punishing rules that could force the popular platforms out of the Windy City.

TAGS: Chicago, collaborative economy, Lyft, regulations, rideshare, Uber

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Food trucks fight for the right to exist

Chicago utility-tax hike shows need for taxpayer bill of rights

Illinois General Assembly passes law allowing creation of ‘super TIFs’

Chicago City Council aims to crowd ballot with needless referendums

Chicago City Council committee passes resolution supporting expansion of record sealing

Chicago passes new rules on Uber and Lyft

Chicago’s new Airbnb ordinance greets visitors to the city with a 21 percent tax bill

Instead of whacking Uber, Evanston looks to lift burden on taxis

Uber and Airbnb ordinances show Chicago ushering in new era of hyperregulation

Uber, Lyft threaten to leave Chicago

4 ways to break out of Illinois’ pension trap

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