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A pro-Palestinian supporter celebrates the passing of a contentious vote over a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in City Council on Jan. 31, 2024, at City Hall in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/baiduhai)

Chicago City Council votes to support Gaza cease-fire, as Mayor Johnson casts tiebreaker

February 1, 2024 at 2:28 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson cast the tiebreaking vote as the Chicago City Council narrowly passed a resolution calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza Wednesday, bringing a monthslong battle over the...

Chicago FOP President John Catanzara Jr. sits through a Chicago City Council meeting at City Hall on Jan. 24, 2024.

City Council to vote on police arbitration again after committee opposes private disciplinary hearings

January 31, 2024 at 12:16 p.m.

The committee's vote tees up another chapter in the back and forth between City Hall and the Fraternal Order of Police over the contract provision.

Decenas de migrantes se congregan afuera de un refugio para migrantes en la cuadra 1600 de W. Walnut St. en Chicago, el lunes 29 de enero de 2024.

El Alcalde de Chicago pospone el desalojo de inmigrantes de los refugios

April 15, 2024 at 3:36 p.m.

'(Los inmigrantes) no esperan llegar a Elmhurst, ni a los suburbios, sino a la ciudad de Chicago'

CPS high school students sit down on La Salle Street in front of the City Hall to call for a cease-fire in Israel-Hamas War on Jan. 30, 2024.

Students walk out at several CPS schools to demand City Council support cease-fire in Gaza

February 1, 2024 at 4:49 p.m.

At about a dozen high schools across Chicago Tuesday, students are holding walkouts to demand aldermen vote in favor of a cease-fire resolution.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson gives an update on migrant issues at City Hall on Jan. 29, 2024.

Mayor Brandon Johnson postpones shelter eviction dates until March

March 11, 2024 at 11:58 a.m.

On the eve of a City Council hearing to probe conditions at a migrant landing zone and shelters and days before thousands were scheduled to be evicted from the shelters,...

Personas afuera de un refugio para inmigrantes cerca de la cuadra 2300 de South Halsted Street el 19 de diciembre de 2023 en Chicago. (Armando L. Sánchez/baiduhai)

Los concejales firman una carta en la que instan a Johnson a suprimir la política de 60 días de acogida de inmigrantes

April 15, 2024 at 3:36 p.m.

Más de una docena de concejales de Chicago pidieron el jueves al alcalde Brandon Johnson que deseche su política de 60 días de límite de acogida para inmigrantes, la última...

People stand outside a migrant shelter near the 2300 block of South Halsted Street on Dec. 19, 2023, in Chicago.

Aldermen sign letter urging Johnson to scrap 60-day migrant shelter policy

March 11, 2024 at 12:02 p.m.

More than a dozen Chicago aldermen on Thursday called on Mayor Brandon Johnson to scrap his 60-day shelter limit policy for migrants, the latest sign the City Council's recent streak...

People wait in line to attend a Chicago City Council meeting at City Hall on Jan. 24, 2024.

Mayor Brandon Johnson calls for Gaza cease-fire ahead of heated resolution vote

January 24, 2024 at 4:54 p.m.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson backed calls for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza Wednesday ahead of a hotly contested vote on a City Council cease-fire resolution set for next...

Sponsor Ald. Matt O'Shea, 19th, during a Chicago City Council meeting, May 24, 2023.

Chicago aldermen considering new restrictions on where dollar stores can be built

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

An ordinance restricting where dollar stores can be built in Chicago got delayed when it came up for debate Wednesday in the City Council. The legislation would prohibit operators from...

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...

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