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An Illinois measure would target the disclosure of fees for businesses, including restaurants, hotels and lodging, food delivery apps, live-ticketed events and independent contractors. So-called “junk” fees include service fees for popular concerts, resort fees for hotels and additional fees tacked onto restaurant bills.
Columnists, editorial writers and many more head for the exits as the paper’s nonprofit owner, Chicago Public Media, deals with fiscal hardship.
The memo comes as Mayor Brandon Johnson ramps up pressure on the school board to include in its amended budget a payment for a city pension fund that covers some ľֱ staff.
Yolanda Talley, who most recently served as internal affairs chief and led recruitment efforts, was previously embroiled in a bizarre incident involving a drug bust centering around her personal car and her niece.
Abel Orozco Ortega was among 22 people from the Chicago area whose arrests by federal immigration agents violate a federal settlement, according to attorneys with the National Immigrant Justice Center and ACLU of Illinois.
The union is now “barreling toward an escalated conflict,” sources said. The teachers union can take a strike vote at any time. It could then walk out with 10 days’ notice.
Stone Temple Baptist Church was counting on the funds to plant trees in its community garden, which provides healthy options for the majority-Black community it serves.
Tesla owners have been victims of vandalism, rude behavior and assumptions about their politics since CEO Elon Musk joined the Trump administration and began slashing jobs.
Marian “Cindy” Friend Pritzker was the wife of Hyatt Hotels founder Jay Pritzker and mother to their five children. She was also the aunt of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.
A right-leaning online publication had posted the birth dates and home addresses of Illinois registered voters.
Peggy Montes started the Bronzeville Children’s Museum, worked to elect Mayor Harold Washington and seeks to empower, inspire women: “I said, ‘Why is there no celebration of women and what women do?”
Things got weird, people felt isolated and suffered, but some families got closer. And some changes stuck.
More than 19,000 people were wounded in shootings in Chicago since 2018. The Chicago Police Department has made arrests in 1,200 of those cases.
An annual tradition that dates back over half a century, the transformation of the Chicago River into a green waterway took place at 10 a.m. Saturday morning.
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