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Military troops arrived at an Elwood training center after weeks of threats from President Donald Trump’s administration, over the objections of local leaders.
The unanimous voice vote by the City Council’s Committee on Workforce Development means $185 million in retroactive pay could soon be in the mail to 4,800 firefighters and paramedics whose pay has been frozen for more than four years.
The mayor is a week away from unveiling a 2026 city budget that needs to erase Chicago’s $1.15 billion shortfall after two straight years of deficit spending.
Es la última de tres órdenes ejecutivas que Johnson ha firmado, todas dirigidas a la campaña de deportación que el presidente Donald Trump ha impuesto en el área de Chicago. Cómo y si realmente se harán cumplir es otra cuestión.
It’s the latest of three executive orders that Johnson has signed, all aimed at the deportation campaign that President Donald Trump has imposed in the Chicago area. How and whether they’ll actually be enforced is another question.
The 13-4 vote is a bitter defeat for advocates of transportation and people with disabilities who tried to persuade Chicago to join Toronto in clearing its sidewalks at city expense for a decade.
Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday accused President Donald Trump of “holding bipartisan funding hostage” and hurting hardworking people.
Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th) argued there are plenty of jobs, particularly in policing, that could be performed by rookies in their 50s. Police and fire union leaders branded the proposal “crazy.”
The City Council Thursday jumped at the chance to resolve the cases, with individual victims receiving anywhere from $150,000 to more than $3 million for a man who spent a decade in prison on a Watts case.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s City Council revamp became a casualty of his diminished clout Thursday — the Council only voted install Walter Burnett’s son, Walter Redmond Burnett, to replace his father as 27th Ward alderperson. The rest of the mayor’s proposed line-up of committee chairmanships was stalled indefinitely.