Proposed ordinance would ban valet parking at Chicago bars
Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd, introduced an ordinance Thursday to phase out valet parking services at Chicago taverns on the grounds that the city shouldn't be making it easy for people...
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Loud music from boats would be outlawed in Lake Michigan’s ‘Playpen’ and on Chicago River under proposed ordinance
Boating partyers in Chicago's notorious "Playpen" area in Lake Michigan would need to turn down the bumping dance music under an ordinance a downtown aldermen introduced to the City Council...
Progressive aldermen want mayor to increase spending on struggling Chicagoans and eliminate vacant cop jobs in budget boosted by pandemic aid
Progressive Chicago aldermen will call on Mayor Lori Lightfoot Thursday to get rid of hundreds of Police Department vacancies in her budget, eliminate the controversial ShotSpotter program and direct tens...
Defy city vaccine deadline, Chicago police union boss tells officers. Mayor responds to threat of FOP lawsuit: ‘Bring it’
The head of Chicago's police union has advised officers not to comply with the city's COVID-19 vaccine reporting requirement and says members should be willing to be sent home without...
Chicago police superintendent defends ShotSpotter gunshot detection system, says it’s saved lives
Chicago police Superintendent David Brown defended his department's controversial ShotSpotter contract Monday, telling aldermen it's an important "tool in our toolbox" despite studies that questioned the gunshot-detection system's usefulness. Appearing...
Electric scooter sharing could come back to Chicago under plan that could get approval this week
A full-fledged Chicago electric scooter-sharing program seems primed to launch thousands of the zippy conveyances citywide. The City Council Transportation Committee passed an ordinance Wednesday that would allow as many...
Chicago speed cameras couldn’t ticket cars going 6-9 mph over limit if proposed change is OK’d
One alderman's move to roll back Mayor Lori Lightfoot's policy of using speed cameras to ticket cars going as little as 6 mph over the limit advanced Tuesday, while another...
Blues legend Muddy Waters’ South Side home nears landmark status
Chicago blues legend Muddy Waters' South Side home is on the cusp of earning landmark status, which would protect the look of the structure where his descendants plan to launch...
Activists rally to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. Italian American group doesn’t want ‘one-sided narrative.’
Over 50 people gathered in protest and celebration Monday morning on the Far North Side as politicians and activists spoke to denounce Columbus Day and lift up Indigenous Peoples Day...
Chicago’s recycling rate remains stubbornly low, even as the pandemic increased the amount of household waste
Chicago's household recycling rate is still stuck in the single digits despite Mayor Lori Lightfoot's attempts to improve residents' stubbornly low participation in the perennially underachieving recycling program. Appearing for...