New mural unveiled at West Side career center
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A West Side community center is showing off a new look to go with an important mission: helping those with disabilities get jobs.

Lightfoot proposal may end natural gas hookups for new homes
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New home and businesses in Chicago may find it hard and nearly impossible to get natural gas hookups under a new proposal.

Chicago’s Black contractor numbers still too low, City Council’s Black Caucus says

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration paid $763 million to prime contractors through July 31 of this year, but only 11% of that total — $82 million — went to companies owned by African-Americans.

Chicago opens new health and education center on Southwest Side

After sitting vacant for 25 years, a former furniture store is reopening as a community health and education center.

Chicago city clerk, treasurer defend 20.5% pay hikes
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Risking a preelection backlash, City Clerk Anna Valencia and City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin said Friday they will accept the 20.5% pay raises ? to $161,016 ? that Mayor Lori Lightfoot?s 2023 budget includes for the city clerk and city treasurer.

City lawyers try (again) to block Mayor Lori Lightfoot deposition in CPD whistleblower case

In 2017, Sgt. Khalil Muhammad shot 18-year-old Ricardo Hayes near his home in Morgan Park. Another officer said he refused superiors’ requests to change reports to say that Muhammad was a “victim” of an aggravated assault by Hayes, his lawsuit states.

Some Chicago police misconduct complaints will now be handled by independent mediators

Some low-level misconduct complaints against Chicago police officers will be handled by independent mediators in a six-month pilot program that aims to speed up misconduct investigations and rebuild the public’s trust in police, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office announced Wednesday.

Chicago welcomes more than 2K asylum seekers bused in from Texas

In Mayor Lori Lightfoot's 2023 budget proposal, she designated $5 million to support asylum seekers and immigrants brought to the city.

Chicago welcomes more than 2K asylum seekers bused in from Texas
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In Mayor Lori Lightfoot's 2023 budget proposal, she designated $5 million to support asylum seekers and immigrants brought to the city.