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The four projects named by Johnson's office stand to create more than 1,000 new apartments with at least 319 projected to have affordable rents through tax increment financing assistance.
Choose Chicago President and CEO Lynn Osmond announced Thursday she would resign effective Jan. 31, just 20 months into her four-year contract to focus her “time and energies on a family health matter.”
The proposed quick-fixes include a six-month delay until July 1 in the requirement that businesses give Chicago employees five paid sick days and five paid vacation days per year. Businesses also would get 16 days, or one pay period, to remedy a problem with paid leave.
The ordinance would require 10 days off a year five sick days and five vacation days. Companies with 100 or more workers would be reqired to pay out up to seven days of unused time when employees leave.