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The ‘Bring Chicago Home’ measure, an effort to end homelessness, would raise real estate transfer taxes on properties over $1 million.

Eighth Ward Council Member Devon Reid told fellow commissioners on Evanston’s Equity and Empowerment Commission Aug. 17 that he will put forward a Eighth Ward Council Member Devon Reid suggests that retailers who use self-checkout kiosks should be taxed, with the money going toward training and placement programs for Evanston teens.

City council stopped short of greenlighting a planned housing complex on Church Street Monday night, holding a sale of land but granting loans to the Housing Opportunity Development Corporation. The council considered three actions: swapping a portion of the city’s property with the church, Mt. Pisgah Ministries, Inc, approving a sale of this new property...

A D.C. Council member is sponsoring a bill that will study reparations for Black residents of the District.

City Council unanimously voted to put more than $500,000 toward emergency repairs for the elevator at Police and Fire Headquarters Monday night. But the elderly elevator provided a peephole into a larger conversation about the city’s aging infrastructure, a situation Ald. Devon Reid (8th) described as “grim” and “sobering.” “We really need to nail this...