Mayor Brandon Johnson exempts migrant families with children and those with measles from shelter evictions
With these new exceptions, the city is proceeding with a plan to require migrants leave shelters after 60 days and will require vaccinations.
With these new exceptions, the city is proceeding with a plan to require migrants leave shelters after 60 days and will require vaccinations.
The Illinois Supreme Court denied an appeal by real estate groups that tried to block the ballot question regarding tax rates on property sales.
The groups want the state’s highest court to stop the effort to allow voters to approve increasing a sales tax on high-end properties before the March 19 primary
Voters should get to decide the proposed tax increase on the sale of high-end properties in Chicago, the court ruled.
Opponents of a proposal to increase the city’s real estate transfer tax for homelessness say Johnson’s plan is further proof the city doesn’t need the referendum.
Johnson says his signature development plan would rely on letting dozens of the city’s controversial TIF districts expire, and that money would be used to pay back the debt.
Davis’s Democratic challengers say it’s time for the incumbent congressman to step aside. But Davis says he has valuable seniority.
Attorneys bickered over procedural questions in court as real estate groups try to get the question kicked off the ballot.
From Chicagoans’ doorsteps to Zoom calls, supporters and opponents of a tax on high-end property sales to pay for homelessness programming make their arguments before the March 19 referendum vote.
Will it raise taxes? What would the money be for? Your questions answered about the Chicago referendum on your primary ballot.