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Getting a ticket for possession of 10 grams of marijuana or less, instead of getting arrested, could come to Cook County because of recent change to the cannabis possession ordinance. The Cook County Board of Commissioners expanded the jurisdiction of marijuana ticketing for possession of 10 grams or less, ordinance to cover Ford Heights....
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Cook County Board Commissioners approved an ordinance last week that will overhaul the county’s procurement process as well as raise all board-approval contracts to $150,000. The ordinance–which was unanimously approved– re-organizes and modernizes the county’s purchasing process with outside vendors, while also using taxpayers’ dollars more efficiently, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said...
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City leaders’ dreams that the 2016 Olympics would come to Chicago ended in October, but their hopes for the economic development, job creation and neighborhood expansion the Games would have brought to the city are alive and well. On a snowy afternoon on Feb. 9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago’s Neighborhood Development Awards...
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With the primary less than a month away, the Cook County Board president race is heating up, and the hot button issue of sales tax remains at the forefront. On Saturday, the four Democratic candidates were at each others’ throats in a sometimes contentious forum held at Columbia College Chicago. After each candidate presented...
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Terry Clark has lived at the Prairie Shores apartment complex in Bronzeville for 43 years. For the last couple of weeks though, his allergies have flared up, making it difficult for him to breathe, and causing headaches, and a runny nose. Clark attributes the flare-up to the trees and shrubs being dug up at...
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Story by: Lisa Wardle April 27, 2009 – With Olympics buzz going around Hyde Park, an old proposal to improve public transportation involving a new South Side CTA route that would run on existing Metra tracks has resurfaced. And it looks more likely to happen than ever before, according to backers of the plan...
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by Beth Palmer Oct. 4, 20 ST. LOUIS – The man is from Delaware, the woman is from Alaska. Maybe not Mars and Venus, but the stark differences in age and experience between Democrat Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Republican Sarah Palin had both sides worried before Thursday night’s debate – the only meeting...
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