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Crain's Chicago Business: Opinion: Here's how Mayor Johnson brings Chicago together on homelessness
At a news conference after the ballot defeat of “Bring Chicago Home,” Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters: “The organizing doesn’t pivot. . . .We get stronger, and whatever we didn’t get the first time, we’ll get even more the next time.”
The Center Square: Pritzker defends IL's tax credits while MO looks to slash corporate rate
While Illinois looks at tax credits for gifting endowments, student loans, hiring journalists and music companies, Missouri is looking at phasing out not just tax credits but also their corporate income tax.
Not among the slew of tax credits the Illinois Senate is reviewing is the Invest in Kids school choice scholarship tax credit, which expired at the end of 2023. There’s been no public discussion about revisiting the program.
Chicago Sun-Times: Killing of Dexter Reed raises questions about Chicago police reform. ‘The message is, go in guns blazing.’
Nearly a decade after a grainy dashboard camera captured a Chicago cop shooting Laquan McDonald 16 times, reform efforts spurred by the killing face renewed scrutiny after newly released footage showed another African American dying in a hail of bullets fired by police.
Alexandra Block, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, said the police department’s approach to a federal consent decree has amounted to “a box-checking exercise” — and the promises of overhauling the culture haven’t been kept.
The Chicago Tribune: After balking earlier, Johnson to ask City Council to spend $70M on migrant services
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 keep afloat the city’s costly response to the 38,000-plus asylum-seekers who have made their way to Chicago since 2022.
The Daily Herald: Here we go: $127 million transportation construction program announced in Lake County
Fifteen miles of new or widened pavement, 58 miles of resurfacing, eight big intersection improvements, 13 bridge deck repairs and two roundabouts are among the projects in Lake County’s $127 million 2024 construction program.
The Chicago Tribune: Local School Council elections are this week. Why that matters to your community.
The primary election may be over, but voting season is still underway, as this week communities across Chicago Public Schools will vote on who will oversee academic and social initiatives within the walls of their school.
Local School Councils exist at each of the more than 600 public schools spanning all 77 neighborhoods of Chicago, and operate independently of the district administration, the school board and other schools. They were created in part to give Chicago parents more control over what happens at their children’s schools.