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Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle speaks during a board meeting on Jan. 25, 2024. The board voted to settle three cases that will cost taxpayers more that $8 million.

Cook County approves settlements over wrongful conviction, ADA violation

January 25, 2024 at 5:58 p.m.

The Cook County Board voted to settle three cases with a taxpayer tab of more than $8 million Thursday, including awarding nearly $2 million to a former Chicago Public Schools...

Riverside Brookfield High School District 208 Superintendent Kevin Skinkis takes part in a school board meeting on Jan. 23, 2024.

After suburban pushback, Cook County leaders propose exempting parks, school districts from paid leave requirements

January 26, 2024 at 8:39 a.m.

Responding to a robust lobbying effort, Cook County leaders are moving to exempt thousands of suburban park and school district employees from a new Cook County ordinance that strengthened paid...

John Catanzara, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, gives public comment at a meeting of the City Council Committee on Workforce Development, Dec. 7, 2023, at Chicago City Hall.

Chicago aldermen defer police arbitration deal, approve settlements

January 26, 2024 at 1:12 p.m.

Confronted for the second time in as many months with the future of police discipline, aldermen deferred voting on a contract measure to allow officers accused of serious misconduct to...

Then-Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas leaves Healy School after voting on Election Day on April 4, 2023.

Paul Vallas facing $10,500 fine from city’s ethics board

January 23, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

Recent mayoral runner-up Paul Vallas is being fined $10,500 for violating the city's campaign finance rules. In November, the Chicago Board of Ethics voted unanimously to find probable cause Vallas...

Drivers race on Congress Plaza Drive during the NASCAR Cup Series in Grant Park on July 2, 2023.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s ‘better deal’ with NASCAR is a handshake agreement to pay city an extra $2 million

March 11, 2024 at 3:05 p.m.

When Mayor Brandon Johnson announced NASCAR would be returning to the streets of downtown Chicago this summer, he touted that he got a "better deal for the people in Chicago"...

Candidate Eileen O'Neill Burke, center, turns in her petitions to run for Cook County state's attorney with her husband, John Burke, at the Cook County clerk's office on Dec. 4, 2023.

Democratic candidates for Cook County state’s attorney ramping up fundraising

January 17, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

With the March 19 primary a little over two months away, Judge Eileen O'Neill Burke has nearly $250,000 ready to spend and almost $100,000 more than opponent Clayton Harris III...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, right, files petitions on Nov. 27, 2023, to appear on the primary election ballots.

Homeowner exemptions raising tax rates, undercutting savings in some towns, Cook County report finds

January 15, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

A new report from Cook County leaders comes with a warning about expanding property tax breaks for homeowners: What seems good for one taxpayer can backfire on a whole town....

Danielle Degutz dances to Wax Motif in the mud at Lollapalooza in Chicago's Grant Park on Aug. 6, 2023.

Lollapalooza sent Chicago Park District record revenue in 2023

January 10, 2024 at 7:58 a.m.

The Chicago Park District received its biggest haul yet last year from the organizers of Lollapalooza, who paid $9.6 million in fees to use Grant Park for the annual four-day...

Democrat Clayton Harris III arrives with more than 27,000 petition signatures to appear on the March primary election ballot as a candidate for Cook County state's attorney on Nov. 27, 2023.

State’s attorney candidate rips opponent for prosecuting 11-year-old in murder case

January 8, 2024 at 4:06 p.m.

Backers of Cook County state's attorney candidate Clayton Harris III are arguing his opponent's "irresponsible and reckless lack of judgment" in prosecuting a young boy in 1993 gives voters a...

Ald. Matt Martin, 47th, in his North Center ward on Jan. 3, 2024, is head of the City Council's Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight.

City Council ethics package could face uphill fight without Johnson in the lead

May 13, 2024 at 4:42 p.m.

In the wake of former Ald. Edward Burke's blockbuster racketeering conviction, his onetime colleagues on the Chicago City Council are faced with a choice: whether to hold themselves to tougher...

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