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LAPD widens investigation into source of racist City Hall leak

LOS ANGELES — Information obtained by Los Angeles police from search warrants served on Twitter and Reddit has led detectives to additional investigative avenues as they work to uncover who recorded a meeting between three L.A. City Council members and a labor leader that was filled with racist and offensive…

Los Angeles Times

Plans to demolish former police station for 900 flats in doubt as building listed

It is now Grade-II listed

Nottingham Post

Another accidental shooting raises doubts about SW Side City Council member’s skills as firearm instructor

Licensed firearm instructor Ald. Derrick Curtis (18th) shot himself in the hand in October, and his daughter was shot during a class he was teaching last week.

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Promontory Point could become a city landmark by April

City parks officials assured residents that if Promontory Point becomes a landmark after a City Council vote this spring, its historic limestone revetments will be preserved.

Chicago Sun-Times

LA City Council member Kevin de León says censure penalties would hurt his constituents

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Council member Kevin de León addressed his colleagues for more than eight minutes Wednesday, speaking publicly in council chambers for the first time since an incendiary leaked audio conversation upended L.A. politics in October, propelling the legislative body into crisis.

Los Angeles Times

Retiring Ald. Roberto Maldonado chooses Lightfoot over Garcia

“The only mayor who fully-funded the developments that were stagnated under [Rahm] Emanuel and the new ones that I came up with was Lori Lightfoot. She has been the only one who has talked the talk and walked the walk when it comes to affordable housing,” Maldonado told the Chicago…

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Commentary: Clean air should not be for sale. Why Chicago needs a clean buildings ordinance

As a young boy, my asthmatic lungs knew when harvest started in the nearby farm fields of central Illinois. Without a combine in sight, I knew that the work had begun.

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Lightfoot’s ‘No. 1 cheerleader’ in City Council rethinking support over mayor’s failure to call after he accidentally shot himself

Ald. Derrick Curtis (18th) said his second thoughts stem from Lightfoot’s “coldness” toward him, including her not contacting him after a shooting accident last fall.

Chicago Sun-Times

Head of City Council’s public safety committee renews call to fire Chicago cop with ties to far-right Proud Boys

“We have fired officers in the past with less transgressions in their associations,” Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th) said of an officer with ties to the group Proud Boys.

Chicago Sun-Times

They're loud, they're proud — these peacocks are getting the boot

SOUTH PASADENA, Calif. — About 45 minutes before dusk, 27-year-old Jonathan Gonzalez drove up the inclines of South Pasadena's Monterey Hills community in a dark-blue pickup truck. He approached the house of a client and headed to the backyard.

Los Angeles Times

Brooklyn Center police recruitment video draws backlash

MINNEAPOLIS — Activists and community members voiced outrage at a rally outside Brooklyn Center City Hall on Monday evening to denounce what they call a hyper-militarized video produced by the Police Department to recruit officers to the force.

Tribune News Service

City Council committee alters game plan on ‘astronomical’ vaping by Chicago teens

The ordinance would require a new city license whenever a retailer “derives more than 20 percent of their gross revenue from the sale of electronic cigarette products, accessories or liquid nicotine products.”

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Chicago Landmarks Commission to consider landmark status for Promontory Point

Making Promontory Point a city landmark would effectively protect the lakefront site from development or demolition.

Chicago Sun-Times

City Council committee adds teeth to city ordinance protecting abortion, gender care

The Chicago Commission on Human Relations is now empowered to “investigate and adjudicate complaints” of “discrimination and retaliation related to housing.” The ordinance

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Capital & Main

Councilmember Supports Legalizing Street Vending on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Hugo Soto-Martinez says he is seeking a way to undo the “no-vending zone” in his district.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago Alderman Roberto Maldonado won’t seek reelection, ending 13-year tenure

CHICAGO — Longtime Chicago Alderman Roberto Maldonado, 26th, appears to be joining the parade of City Council members opting out of another term.

Chicago Sun-Times

Trade union leaders square off in verbal slugfest over stalled crane ordinance

The stalled proposal would require a Chicago crane operators license for any equipment to lift over 1,000 pounds, half the current weight limit. It’s a good thing for Operating Engineers Local 150 that no final vote was taken. If there had been a roll call, the ordinance would surely have…

Chicago Sun-Times

City Hall went after Ald. Walter Burnett Jr. for owning a drug house in West Garfield Park

Within months after Mayor Lori Lightfoot took office, the police twice raided a two-flat owned by Burnett and his wife Darlena Williams-Burnett and accused them in a lawsuit of owning a “public nuisance” where drugs were sold.

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Tribune News Service

Dan Rodricks: Can you blame a shopping center for a shooting?

The people who got on Baltimore City Councilman Kristerfer Burnett after the shooting in Edmondson Village Wednesday morning might not know this, but he has been pushing for investment in that old shopping center for several years. Before and after the Freddie Gray uprising and unrest of 2015, Burnett was…

Tribune News Service

Fort Worth looks to rename Hillside Community Center after Atatiana Jefferson

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Fort Worth City Council will consider Tuesday renaming the Hillside Community Center in honor of Atatiana Jefferson as a “tangible legacy and reminder to the life she lived.”

Reason

Dismissing Volunteer City Advisory Board Appointee for Alleged Antifa Links Doesn't Violate First Amendment

The same would apply for other speech or political association, because "political affiliation [was] an appropriate requirement for the effective performance of the public office involved."

Tribune News Service

NYC Mayor Adams in his first year has taken bold steps — but success remains uncertain

NEW YORK — In his first year as New York City’s 110th mayor, Eric Adams laid out many a plan.

Chicago Sun-Times

Let’s ease property tax burden by fixing tax-increment financing

Ultimately, property taxes are a math problem we must solve if we want the fabric of our neighborhoods to remain intact. TIF reform is a good place to start finding solutions.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chatham group leaders urge liquor stores, bars to close two hours early on New Year’s Eve

South Side residents are asking Chatham liquor businesses to close early on New Year’s Eve in an attempt to curb violence in the area.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago’s top 10 stories for 2022

Another whirlwind year of local news saw a string of City Hall denizens bowing out, thousands of families reeling from the ongoing epidemic of gun violence and a wave of new arrivals looking to get their footing.

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