Lightfoot to unveil plan to ‘fix it ourselves,’ erase $1.2 billion shortfall without federal help
Lightfoot to unveil plan to ‘fix it ourselves,’ erase $1.2 billion shortfall without federal help
On Wednesday, the mayor will outline the $94 million property tax increase she plans to propose, the roughly 350 employees who will lose their jobs and the services she must cut to, as she put it, "fix it ourselves."
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Chicago Sun-Times
Coronavirus live blog, Oct. 19, 2020: Second surge in coronavirus cases prompts stern message from Lightfoot: ‘This is a warning sign’
Coronavirus live blog, Oct. 19, 2020: Second surge in coronavirus cases prompts stern message from Lightfoot: ‘This is a warning sign’
Here’s Monday’s news on how COVID-19 is impacting Chicago and Illinois. Follow here for live updates.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Lightfoot’s ‘pandemic’ budget: 500 layoffs, $94 million property tax hike
Lightfoot’s ‘pandemic’ budget: 500 layoffs, $94 million property tax hike
The budget also raises the gasoline tax 3-cent-a-gallon and would eliminate 1,000 vacant jobs, including 450 police officers. City employees laid off would have pink slips delayed to March, giving the new Congress time to act.
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How County Commissioner Bridget Degnen whipped through the revolving door to potential riches
Degnen should resign from the Cook County board or quit working as a paid consultant — and possible owner — in the recreational pot business.
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Coronavirus live blog, Oct. 20, 2020: Illinois Department of Public Health announced 3,714 more people have tested positive for the coronavirus
Here’s Tuesday’s news on how COVID-19 is impacting Chicago and Illinois. Follow here for live updates.
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Gov. Pritzker restricting service in restaurants, bars in Will, Kankakee, Kane and DuPage counties
With the state facing what Gov. J.B. Pritzker has called a "new wave" of surging coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths, business restrictions will be in place across four of the state’s 11 regions by the end of the week — and other regions are flirting with a state intervention as…
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