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Users of e-cigarettes are now paying more at Chicago counters. On Sept. 20, Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced an ordinance raising taxes on e-cigarettes and requiring all retail stores to keep vaping products below the counter, effective immediately.
The Illinois tollway has hired a number of politically connected Republicans to work at the agency in important positions. While that is troubling to some government watchdogs who say they're concerned about favoritism, tollway officials say the agency is staffed with well-qualfied professionals.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced the appointment of Jamie Rhee as the new Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Aviation . Rhee will succeed Ginger Evans, who is stepping down on August 1 after three remarkable years leading Chicago's aviation system.
The allegiance of political empathy between Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel is striking. Both promised to serve and improve the city of Chicago, albeit through taxation, yet assured the citizens such expenses will be short lived and/or improvements will offset the expenditures.
The deportation follows an earlier decision by US authorities to deny Miguel Perez's citizenship application because of a felony drug conviction , despite his service and the PTSD he says it caused. Perez, 39, was escorted across the US-Mexico border from Texas and handed over to Mexican authorities Friday, ICE said in a statement.
Choose your news! Select the text alerts you want to receive: breaking news, prep sports scores, school closings, weather, and more. Members of the Northern Illinois University campus male mentoring organization Black Male Initiative said their final goodbye in January 2016 to fellow NIU student and BMI member Quintonio LeGrier.
Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans told county commissioners Friday that Obama has been summoned for jury duty next month in Illinois, according to CNN affiliate WLS-TV. Obama plans to serve as juror, according to WLS-TV.
The city of Chicago filed a lawsuit Thursday against the credit reporting company Equifax over a data breach that exposed personal information of about 143 million people, including more than 5 million in Illinois. Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the company should be held accountable for the breach and a delay in notifying consumers.
Back in December of last year, over vocal protests from residents, Cook County, Illinois adopted a policy similar to many other cash strapped, liberal municipalities. They decided to save the people from themselves and simultaneously put a bunch of money in the city's nearly empty coffers by imposing a sin tax on soda and other "sweetened beverages."
African-American elected officials said Thursday that they will continue pushing for changes to the Chicago's police union contract, which the newly-elected Fraternal Order of Police president has promised to defend. Ald. Roderick Sawyer , the leader of the City Council's Black Caucus, threatened to block approval of a new contract if it doesn't include significant changes. "The FOP contract has been serving and protecting a culture of racism in our police department for far too long," he said. The city's contract with the FOP expires at the end of June.
Eve Rothbaum, 11, holds a sign during a "Rally for Sanctuary" on Feb. 4 in Oak Park. A proposed "welcoming ordinance," up for approval by the Oak Park Village Board on Monday night, would be "exactly what we were looking for," Mony Ruiz-Velasco said as a group of hundreds gathered in Scoville Park on Saturday afternoon.
Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin and Congressman Danny Davis are holding an event Thursday afternoon calling on Aldi to keep the store open. "The community depends on this location as its sole source of healthy, nutritious food," a statement from Boykin's office said.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle today launched an unprecedented effort to generate new industrial investment in Chicagoland neighborhoods. The Industrial Growth Zones program will accelerate neighborhood development in seven designated areas over the next three years by removing longstanding hurdles to development and providing a broad set of services to support property owners and industrial businesses.
An effort to fire a Chicago police lieutenant has failed after the investigating agency missed a five-year deadline by just a few weeks. The lieutenant, Glenn Evans, is one of the city's leading recipients of excessive-force complaints.