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Mayor Johnson approves $10 million payment to extend ShotSpotter deal he vowed to end — aide blames 'autopay'

A top mayoral aide said Johnson’s signature was unwittingly attached to a document authorizing the payment, which covered a contract extension that was approved by Lori Lightfoot.

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Brandon Johnson OKs ShotSpotter $10 million payment on Lori Lightfoot deal he vowed to end

Brandon Johnson OKs ShotSpotter $10 million payment on Lori Lightfoot deal he vowed to end
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In goodbye speech, Lightfoot bids tearful farewell to City Hall, but not Chicago

The outgoing Chicago mayor chided the media reporting “what four-letter word the mean, can’t-get-along-with-anyone mayor allegedly said.” But she told the crowd, “The four-letter word that propelled me forward every single day … was spelled H-O-P-E.”

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Parking tickets in Chicago surge by 25.7%

Ticketing is up 25.7% through the first six months of 2022 — from 853,906 tickets through June 30 of last year to 1,073,919 tickets during the same period this year.

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Chicago parking tickets surge by 25.7% in first six months of year

Booting, however, is headed in the opposite direction. It’s down 12.6% — from 27,656 of the wheel-locking devices applied through June 30 of 2021 to just 24,158 vehicles booted during the same period this year.

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Economics in Brief: Momentum Grows for a Minimum Wage Increase

While federal policymakers are debating the first federal minimum wage increase in more than a decade, consumer giant Costco with its 180,000 employees announced it will raise its internal minimum wage to $16 an hour. That’s one dollar more than the $15 an hour that workers and labor groups have been demanding for years as a federal minimum wage.
Costco had already raised its starting hourly wage to $14 in 2018 and $15 in 2019. The company says 20 percent of its employees currently earn its minimum wage, according to CNN.
Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., the Biden-Harris administration has been pushing to boost the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of the next COVID-19 relief and recovery package. Some Democratic representatives in Congress are weighing a $12 minimum hourly wage as a compromise. On the other side of the aisle, Republican Senator John Thune of South Dakota opposes a $15 minimum hourly wage, saying he earned $6 an hour as a kid — which would be $23 an hour in today’s dollars, accounting for inflation.

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