The Illinois Supreme Court decided Tuesday in a 4-to-2 vote that it will not order a new sentencing for Jason Van Dyke, rejecting an unusual bid from prosecutors that could have meant a much harsher prison term for the former Chicago police officer.

The court’s rejection means Attorney General Kwame Raoul and special prosecutor Joseph McMahon likely have exhausted their only legal avenue to stiffen Van Dyke’s sentence of 6¾ years in prison for Laquan McDonald’s murder.

A bold proposal to put skyscrapers and a massive new transit center atop train tracks near Soldier Field could be headed for major changes, less than a week after the potentially transformative project was unveiled.

The multibillion-dollar plan led by Wisconsin-based developer Bob Dunn created a buzz of excitement, but also raised concerns after neighbors saw conceptual renderings of a row of dramatic towers just west of Lake Shore Drive, between McCormick Place and the Field Museum.

A major Chicago civic group is throwing its support behind a plan to more than triple the size of the city’s real estate transfer tax on many sales—a move the group says would raise $150 million a year to fight homelessness but one which would hit buyers and sellers of large office buildings and other commercial property with a new tax bill of millions and sometimes tens of millions of dollars.

The support for the plan comes from the Metropolitan Planning Council, a business-backed organization that included the proposal in a briefing paper it has distributed to candidates for mayor and aldermen in the April 2 city election.

The city of McHenry on Monday voted to reduce its raffle payout limit from $6 million to $3 million ahead of the popular Queen of Hearts game.

McHenry Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4600 hosts the game. The jackpot reached more than $7 million in the last round before a Schaumburg woman won in September. The starting date for a new round hasn’t been set, but the jackpot will start at $3.4 million.

After months of talking about it, the East Peoria City Council on Tuesday passed an operating budget that includes money for police cars, a new city fuel station and a snowplow truck, but not enough money for street repair to get approval from one commissioner.

“I’ll be voting ‘no’ tonight,” said Commissioner Dan Decker, the lone vote of opposition on the budget, which that passed 4-1. “I’m not upset, I’m not mad at anybody, but there’s not enough money (in the budget) to put into streets.”

The Springfield City Council Tuesday approved a $7.65 million tax increment financing request for a proposed downtown hotel and entertainment center at Fourth and Washington streets.

The request came from development group DK Collections SPI, LLC., which is seeking to build a 95-room extended stay hotel, 17 luxury apartment units, ground level and rooftop retail space, a “one of a kind” rooftop bar facing the state Capitol, and an entertainment center that would include bowling, billiards, a lounge and outdoor TV screen.