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Alderpeople are poised to pay $2.2 million on Wednesday to settle three lawsuits claiming Chicago police officers used excessive force in 2014, before officers were required to wear cameras and record their interactions with Chicagoans. ....
An aide said the mayor needs the authority to deal with supply chain disruptions and price increases. This comes a day after her plan to lift the ban on sports betting and impose a 2% tax on gross revenues also went nowhere. ....
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Elle Lee/Sun-Times file photo Chicago aldermen on Monday laid the groundwork for Metra to get $850,000 in tax-increment-financing funds to engineer improvements to seven grade crossings in Fulton Market, but not before giving the commuter rail agency an earful about neighborhood neglect. During a Finance Committee meeting, a parade of aldermen demanded to know why Metra is talking about upgrading the seven crossings and building a new Fulton Market Station on the Near West Side while property owned by Metra outside the Central Business District is in such sorry shape. “I’m glad to see you’re making an investment near downtown. But I’m not gonna support this with a `yes’ vote until I see Metra do better in my own neighborhood,” said Budget Committee Chairman Pat Dowell (3rd). ....
Single dad Laurentio Howard and his daughter, Dnigma Howard, 18, outside their Near North Side home earlier this year. At 16, she was shoved down the stairs and Tased by Chicago police officers stationed at Marshall Metropolitan High School. She graduated from the school in June. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Chicago taxpayers will spend $300,000 to compensate a former 16-year-old special needs student Tased and wrestled down a flight of stairs by police officers at Marshall High School after refusing to put away her cellphone during a test. On Monday, the City Council’s Finance Committee approved the settlement to Dnigma Howard, bringing a costly end to the January 2019 incident that became a flashpoint, dramatically altering the role cops assigned as “school resources officers” play in Chicago Public Schools. ....