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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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).
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File-This May 29, 2019, file photo shows Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, right, chatting with Corporation Counsel Mark Flessner, center, and Deputy Corporation Counsel Jeff Levine during her first city council meeting at City Hall in Chicago. Flessner, Chicagoâs top attorney resigned Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020, in the fallout of a botched police raid on the home of a Black woman who was not allowed to put on clothes before being handcuffed. Flessner announced the move in an email to employees, saying he was only recently involved with the legal case connected to a police video of the February 2019 wrongful raid on the home of social worker Anjanette Young. Flessner did not say if he was asked to resign. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)
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.
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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.