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Brighton Park migrant site construction halted pending environmental review

Construction was halted Sunday pending an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency review of a nearly 800-page city consultant’s study that was released Friday night.

Chicago Sun-Times

City Hall and civic groups need to plot a downtown rescue

With vacancy rates rising and valuations falling hard, civic and business leaders are starting to talk about what can be done with office space few companies want anymore.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sadiq Khan cleared of bringing mayoralty into disrepute over anti-Ulez protester remarks

Mayor also found not to have breached the City Hall code of conduct on bullying in way he made the remarks at the public meeting in Ealing

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Chicago must keep pushing forward on O’Hare expansion project

United and American Airlines want to scale back or slow down the massive project to replace Terminal 2. Both Illinois senators and former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who forged the plan with the airlines, say a deal’s a deal.

Chicago Sun-Times

Official rebuke for Sadiq Khan's claim of ‘falling’ knife crime

Office for Statistics Regulation said a mayoral press release was wrong to claim that knife crime in the capital has declined since he took charge of City Hall in 2016

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan celebrates after funding 500,000 trees in London

Tory politician Tony Devenish pointed out that the mayor promised in 2015 to plant two million trees in his first term alone

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Chicago City Hall is owed billions of dollars it hasn’t managed to collect

A Sun-Times analysis finds that thousands of scofflaws — many from the suburbs — have dodged city debts over the years, depriving City Hall of a massive sum of money as Mayor Brandon Johnson faces steep budget challenges.

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Memorial for victims of HIV and AIDs takes first step as Sadiq Khan commits funding

The memorial is expected to be in place by 2026, City Hall has confirmed

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan's business deputy quitting City Hall to focus on fight to be an MP

The mayor will now begin a "thorough recruitment process" to find a new holder of the £141k per year role

Evening Standard

MSG Sphere: Sadiq Khan blocked venue after being warned it could trigger fits in people with epilepsy

Exclusive: Independent report commissioned by City Hall warned lights would affect people with 'metal health issues, dementia, autism, and epilepsy'

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London road collision victims denied justice due to poor evidence-gathering, City Hall told

Almost 4,000 people were seriously injured in collisions on London's roads last year

Evening Standard

Lord Ashcroft: 'Sadiq Khan is not unpopular but Londoners wonder what he has to show for 8 years in City Hall'

Sadiq Khan’s call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict had helped insulate him from a prospective challenge from Jeremy Corbyn at next year's Mayoral election

Evening Standard

London Assembly member Onkar Sahota told he cannot fight next year's City Hall election

Ealing and Hillingdon's London Assembly member has been told by Labour that he cannot keep his seat after 2024

Evening Standard

Settlement and Apology as to Restriction on Holding "God Bless the Homeless Vets" Sign by City Hall

From the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE): A Georgia city apologized and paid up to settle a lawsuit about its officer's arrest of a veteran for holding a sign that said "God Bless the Homeless Vets" outside of its city hall. Following a First Amendment lawsuit from the…

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Why Sadiq Khan rejected a Las Vegas-Style sphere for London

London is not Las Vegas. More searing insights from West End Final when we have it. But in all seriousness, it's difficult to think of two cities less alike.

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Stratford MSG Sphere: Sadiq Khan rejects plans to build version of Las Vegas venue in London

London mayor concerned about scale of light pollution and development's green credentials

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Sadiq Khan calls for Government funding to build 76,000 brownfield homes

The call for funding comes as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt prepares to give his Autumn Statement

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Concern over three-year delay to Sadiq Khan's Met Police stop and search study

The mayor promised in November 2020 that his office would complete a study into the Met's use of stop and search - but the project remains incomplete

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Chicago Sun-Times

‘Stickler’ defense? Opening statements wrap in Burke trial, feds begin calling witnesses

Prosecutors kicked off their case with Elmhurst University political science professor Constance Mixon, who began to explain Chicago city government to the jury.

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Lexington renters and landlords have their say about source of income discrimination

Lexington City Hall has seen some rather lengthy public hearings in its time. Chalk one more up this week when the topic of housing was on the agenda. Specifically, the three-hour hearing focused on a proposed ban on “source of income discrimination.”

Chicago Sun-Times

In crooked Bridgeport bank case, investigators are looking into longtime city contractor

They’re looking at ties between a dumpster company, owned by James W. Bracken III, and a former city official who was on the bank’s board, the Sun-Times has learned.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ed Burke’s corruption trial to shift into high gear, jury seated, opening statements to begin soon

U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall, prosecutors and defense attorneys have chosen 12 jurors at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse who will hear evidence that was used in 2019 to level criminal charges against Burke in a push against old-school, Chicago-style corruption.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mayor Johnson gets a green light on budget, but kicks the fiscal can down the road on migrant spending

With the city spending $40 million a month on the migrant emergency and no assurance of more state or federal aid, the long-term financial impact of Johnson’s budget is still very much up in the air.

Evening Standard

Questions about Sadiq Khan's international travel raised at City Hall

City Hall's oversight committee has called for data on international trips to be made more accessible and for carbon offsetting processes to be improved

Evening Standard

Progress on misogyny in London Fire Brigade but ‘significant work to do’, City Hall told

The Brigade's deputy commissioner said staff were now more confident in lodging complaints about misconduct

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