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Lightfoot's gas and transit giveaways hit rough patch — even after income threshold reduced

Many City Council members questioned the mayor’s motives. Others noted the $12.5 million cost and wondered if improving security should come first. The prepaid cards would cover about two tanks of gas or five CTA round-trips.

New corporation counsel Celia Meza vows to boost minority hiring, speed compliance with consent decree

Chicago may resume water mater installations two years after troubling lead tests prompted a pause

City forges $3.5M partnership with Rush to help track coronavirus variants in Chicago

Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times The Chicago Department of Public Health got the go-ahead on Wednesday to forge a ground-breaking partnership with Rush University Medical Center to undertake “genomic sequencing” to track the spread of coronavirus variants in Chicago. The City Council’s Committee on Budget and Government Operations signed off on the $3.5 million partnership that will cover sequencing of up to 6,000 sample specimens from Chicagoans who test positive for COVID-19. It will be bankrolled by a $3 million “epidemiology and capacity grant” received during the first few months of the pandemic from the Centers for Disease Control and a $500,000 grant for the same purpose awarded to the city in December.