As temperatures plummeted to their lowest this season, the homeless outreach program of Thresholds, a North Side-based mental health provider, worked overtime to canvass the city handing out warm clothes, meals and offering shelter.
Chicago real estate coalition aims to kill homelessness alleviation referendum courthousenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from courthousenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A coalition of real estate and development groups filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to knock the binding referendum off the ballot on grounds that it is a “textbook example” of a time-honored, but illegal legislative tactic known as “log-rolling,” which combines a politically unpopular proposal with popular one to sugarcoat and therefore convince voters to swallow the bitter pill.
A coalition of business groups has filed suit to stop the “Bring Chicago Home” referendum question from appearing on March primary ballots, in the real estate lobby’s latest attempt to stymie Mayor Brandon Johnson’s bid to deliver on a key campaign pledge. The suit was filed Friday in Cook County Circuit Court by opponents of a tax increase on higher-priced property sales, including the .
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