Juan Perez Jr.
chicagotribune.com
Chicago, IL, United States
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Chicago Teachers Union leader on city lawyer strike comments: ‘Rich white men tell black women ... in CPS what to do all the time’
Chicago mayor's camp wants teachers union to spend more time at the table but say there's no more money for a contract deal. → Read More
CPS strike is officially on as teachers union, Chicago mayor fail to reach a last-minute deal
Chicago Public Schools teachers will be on strike on Thursday after failing to agree to a new contract with the city. → Read More
Politics, time and money in play as hours dwindle before Chicago Teachers Union strike deadline
Chicago Teachers Union representatives will gather at their West Town headquarters on Wednesday to consider calling the city’s latest strike, as a deal with Chicago Public Schools remains elusive and hours dwindle before a union-imposed deadline. Talks are set to resume in the morning before a union delegate meeting, but officials expressed scant optimism the last-minute negotiations would avert… → Read More
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle says her $6.2 billion proposed budget is ‘responsible and responsive’
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Thursday outlined her approximately $6.2 billion budget plan for next year — one that continues her agenda without relying on new taxes or fees in the coming year. → Read More
Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle says her $6.2 billion budget has no new taxes and fees
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Thursday will present a $6.18 billion spending plan that her administration says covers the smallest deficit she has faced since taking office in 2010 and proposes no new taxes or fees. → Read More
FBI raid at McCook village hall targeted Village President and Cook County Commissioner Jeff Tobolski
An FBI raid at the village hall in west suburban McCook on Sept. 26 targeted computer hard drives and other items related to Village President and Cook County Commissioner Jeff Tobolski, according to documents released Thursday. → Read More
Despite Rahm Emanuel’s tax hikes, city pension debt grew by $7 billion since 2015. Here’s why.
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s series of tax hikes were painful, but he promised the extra money was part of a plan to get the woefully underfunded city worker pension funds on a “path to solvency.” So what’s happened in the four years since taxpayers started digging deeper? The pension funds are actually worse off. → Read More
FBI raids village offices of west suburban Lyons, nearby McCook, where a Cook County commissioner is mayor. Feds also ‘conducted investigative activity’ in Summit.
FBI agents again raided multiple locations as part of an ongoing public corruption probe, including the municipal building in tiny west suburb McCook, sources confirmed. → Read More
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and activists sue Trump administration over proposed immigration rules that could hurt local health system
Cook County’s government and a prominent advocacy group sued President Donald Trump’s administration over its planned changes to immigration rules this week, adding to a long list of local governments and organizations that already have sought to block a controversial policy slated to take effect this fall. → Read More
Mayor Lori Lightfoot sees stronger Chicago with passage of fine, fee reforms and plan to publicize high-profile watchdog reports as aldermen challenge her on agenda
Mayor Lori Lightfoot took a bow Wednesday for City Council moves she said would create “a city that is stronger, more fair, and more prosperous for our families and our future": reforming automobile fines and fees, allowing certain high profile watchdog investigations to be published and advancing rules for eventual marijuana sales. → Read More
Ethics board levels $25K fine on political consultant recorded allegedly arranging Viagra, sexual services for disgraced former Chicago alderman
A Chicago political consultant who federal authorities allegedly recorded offering Viagra and prostitution services to a former alderman has been fined $25,000 for unregistered lobbying. → Read More
Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans retains leadership post and power over $272 million budget, thousands of employees and future of local court system
Timothy Evans, a Chicago political fixture and chief judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, retained his high-profile post atop one of the world’s busiest judicial systems after a voteof his peers. → Read More
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle called Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to talk about gun violence. Preckwinkle is still waiting for a call back.
After weeks of sniping over Chicago’s struggle with gun violence, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said she called Mayor Lori Lightfoot to request a face-to-face meeting that could start to settle an ongoing debate. Don’t expect an immediate detente. → Read More
Cook County was looking to help ex-offenders find housing, but a dispute over the fine print has renewed debate and could delay the law’s start date
Four months after Cook County commissioners restricted landlords from putting off potential renters with certain criminal backgrounds, the new law is mired in debate over how it will actually work. → Read More
What to know about Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s ‘State of the City’ speech and Chicago’s $838 million budget deficit.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot offered Chicago taxpayers a dismal forecast for the city’s finances on Thursday — a “staggeringly large” 2020 budget deficit of $838 million.Lightfoot declared state lawmakers must step in to help Chicago solve challenges that include overhauling the tax structure for a planned city casino and finding new tax proceeds from the sale of high-dollar properties. → Read More
Will Illinois law allow a proposed Chicago casino to make enough money? Mayor Lori Lightfoot isn’t sure
With word on the odds of success for potential Chicago casino sites due this week, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday she isn’t sure whether a gambling operator can make enough money given the up-front costs they must pay under the current state law. → Read More
A controversial tax subsidy program will generate a record $1.2 billion in revenue. Here’s what the number means for Chicago.
Cook County’s tax increment financing districts will bring in nearly $1.2 billion in revenue this year, a record , spurred by a big increase in collections from Chicago. → Read More
How will Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s ethics rules affect aldermen like Edward Burke? It’s not entirely clear.
The impact on aldermen of the ethics ordinance they unanimously passed is not yet entirely clear → Read More
Cook County Commissioner Luis Arroyo Jr. acknowledges he intervened for ally in forest preserve parking ticket incident
Cook County Commissioner Luis Arroyo Jr. said on Friday that he’s at the center of a controversial effort to dismiss a $250 parking ticket issued last year to a political associate of his who also works as a top employee to a Chicago alderman. → Read More
Cook County’s forest preserve police chief has resigned, days after scathing report on a $250 parking ticket spat
A top county law enforcement official has resigned after a scathing investigation into the dismissal of a $250 parking ticket on behalf of an unnamed elected official. → Read More