Activists say more than 200,000 people are on the waiting list for public housing and they want Mayor Brandon Johnson to replace the CHA board and its CEO.
As Wisconsin loses hundreds of emergency medical services workers, one private ambulance is paying people to take a class to become certified as an EMT.
Despite the padded figures it gave to federal regulators, the Chicago Housing Authority is not finished fulfilling its obligations to build homes and redevelop communities where its high-rises once stood.
The proposal pulls together a few separate ideas that have been floated in recent months in an attempt to alter Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan for a new $120 million school on former public housing land.
The former Harold Ickes site has been vacant since 2010, and now Chicago Housing Authority officials are looking to lease the land to CPS. South Side residents say low-income housing promises made to the Black community by elected officials have gone by the wayside.