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An employee stocks merchandise in the grocery section of the Family Dollar store at 7927 S. Ashland Ave. in Chicago, Jan. 24, 2024. (Antonio Perez/ baiduhai)

Dollar store restrictions to get Chicago council vote

February 21, 2024 at 3:49 p.m.

The so-called “small-box retailer” ordinance would prohibit store operators from opening at new sites within one mile of pre-existing Chicago locations.

ShotSpotter extended as company and Mayor Johnson reach agreement

March 1, 2024 at 10:27 a.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced the gunshot detection system will stay into next fall.

Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed Lissette Castañeda as the new commissioner for Chicago’s Department of Housing. (City of Chicago

Johnson Housing nominee advances

February 16, 2024 at 4:47 p.m.

Lissette Castañeda said she hopes to slash red tape to speed up housing construction and use tools like subsidies to facilitate more home ownership.

Mayor Brandon Johnson answers questions during his news conference after a Chicago City Council meeting at City Hall on Feb. 15, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Johnson says he expects ShotSpotter to remain through September, but dodges contract questions

February 15, 2024 at 7:07 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson repeatedly refused to say if the company's operators had agreed to the contract extension needed to keep the police tool running.

Ald. Andre Vasquez, 40th, left, speaks to John Catanzara, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, after the Chicago City Council voted down police union arbitration deal at their meeting at City Hall on Feb. 15, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Chicago aldermen again vote down police union arbitration deal

February 15, 2024 at 5:32 p.m.

The decision sets the city and its rank-and-file police union up for a court battle to determine the future of police misconduct hearings.

ShotSpotter gun shot detection technology in use on a light pole in the Austin neighborhood on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson will not renew ShotSpotter after summer

February 13, 2024 at 7:36 p.m.

Mayor Johnson will end the contract with the gunshot location technology company in September, says money will go to other safety initiatives.

Martina Standley’s sister, Rain Standley, right, gathers with other family members while speaking about her sister on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, on East 71st Street near South Jeffery Boulevard in South Shore at the location where she was struck by a Chicago police vehicle in November 2019. Martina Standley died in January 2022. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Family of woman hit, allegedly killed by cop car in line for $3.25 million in proposed settlement

February 12, 2024 at 7:48 p.m.

The family of a woman who died three years after she was struck by a Chicago police officer’s SUV and severely injured could get $3.25 million in a settlement with...

Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, 35th, left, joins then-mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson in campaigning at the CTA's California Blue Line station on Feb. 15. 2023. (Antonio Perez/ baiduhai)

Mayor Johnson hasn’t acted on Lightfoot order aimed at aldermanic ward power

February 11, 2024 at 5:01 a.m.

Nine months into his term, Mayor Brandon Johnson has not implemented changes his predecessor ordered to bring transparency to zoning.

A cyclist veers into Lincoln Avenue to avoid a delivery truck parked in the bike lane in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on Nov. 14, 2023. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Automated ticketing of drivers parked in bike and bus lanes downtown could begin this summer, more than a year after pilot program was approved

February 6, 2024 at 2:41 p.m.

City officials have highlighted the program as a way to improve safety for cyclists and pedestrians downtown and boost bus service

Chicago Police officers attend a graduation and promotion ceremony at Navy Pier, Aug. 28, 2023. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Aldermen call for report on Chicago police deployment

February 5, 2024 at 6:19 p.m.

Aldermen Monday called for a study on where and when officers deployed, also considered allowing them to stay on job two more years.

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