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City Council raises debt threshold, sets stage for potential fourth veto from Mayor Johnson (opens the original)
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A defiant City Council tried Tuesday to wean Chicago off its historic addiction to debt, setting the stage for a potential fourth veto from Mayor Brandon Johnson. By a 32-15 vote, the Council agreed to require future borrowing to be approved by a three-fifths vote. That’s 30 votes instead of the current threshold of 26 votes. But the Council’s support of the reform championed by retiring 13th Ward Ald. Marty Quinn fell short of the 34 votes that would be required to override a mayoral veto. That
City Council signs off on $2.5B parking meter sale — after making it a little better (opens the original)
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Nearly 20 years ago, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley struck a deal that allowed him to avoid raising property taxes, but has come back to haunt him and Chicago ever since. On Tuesday, the City Council took a vote that made that lopsided agreement a little less onerous for Chicago taxpayers. The Council gave final approval to New York investment firm Stonepeak Partners’ $2.53 billion bid to acquire Chicago parking meters after Council leaders brokered a compromise to sweeten the sour deal for the cit
City Council faction draws line in sand in preelection budget battle with Mayor Brandon Johnson (opens the original)
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The 29-member City Council coalition that rejected Mayor Brandon Johnson’s corporate head tax on Monday laid the ground rules for the pre-election budget debate with three boundary lines: no property tax, no “head tax or tax on job growth” and no counting on money from Springfield not yet approved. With an $882.4 million shortfall looming less than five months before the mayoral election, Johnson has drawn his own line in the sand. He is staking his uphill battle for re-election on a promise to
Illinois Restaurant Association chief calls out uneven enforcement of sidewalk cafe lights rule (opens the original)
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The head of the Illinois Restaurant Association says Chicago’s uneven enforcement of rules banning strings of sparkling lights for outdoor dining areas is unfair to restaurant owners, who are already struggling. President Sam Toia made the comments following the city’s crackdown against one Roscoe Village restaurant’s outdoor lights — even as scores of other restaurants hang them over sidewalks and parkways. Lush Wine & Spirits, 2232 W. Roscoe St., was ordered in March to remove its decorative w
Zoning Committee OK renter protections proposed by Mayor Johnson's Council opponents (opens the original)
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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s City Council opposition on Thursday strengthened its hand in the battle to determine how much protection Chicago will give to more than 600,000 renters. One day after the Council’s Housing Committee narrowly approved Johnson’s watered-down ordinance — minus a “just cause” provision that would have required landlords to make relocation payments to evicted tenants — the Zoning Committee approved a rival version favored by some of the same real estate interests that blocked
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