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Will Bally’s planned $1.7 billion Chicago casino get built by 2026? The odds may be shrinking.
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoTo paraphrase Mark Twain, reports that the planned $1.7 billion Bally’s Chicago permanent casino may be doomed before the first shovel is planted are, according to the company ...
Council approves rezoning, use for South shore freight rail terminal near New Carlisle
South Bend Tribune· 5 days agoThe St. Joseph County Council voted 9-0 Tuesday to rezone four parcels of land from agricultural to...
Daywatch: City demands thousands of Chicago officers pay off pension error
Chicago Tribune· 6 days agoThousands of Chicago police officers received an unwelcome letter from their pension fund this week: thanks to a payroll error spurred by officers’ latest contract, approximately ...
Rule curtailing lobbyist donations to Chicago mayors stalled amid Johnson pushback
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 days agoCHICAGO — An ethics ordinance aimed at restricting lobbyists’ donations to Chicago mayors was...
Alderman after retaliatory vote stall: ‘If you hit me with a bat, I’m going to shoot you with a gun’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 days agoTempers remained fairly calm as the Chicago City Council met Wednesday. That is, until aldermen got...
Barbershop politics
Politico· 5 days agoQuig and Jeremy Gorner. — Reputation vs. reality: A closer look at four Chicago high schools, by Chalkbeat’s Crystal Paul — Ald. David Moore’s office hit...
Daywatch: Next step in addressing Chicago’s housing shortage
Chicago Tribune· 5 days agoGarden apartments, attic-to-housing conversions and coach houses could soon become easier to build across Chicago. The three-year pilot program launched by the City Council ...
Afternoon Briefing: Jury selection begins in Terrence Shannon Jr. trial
Chicago Tribune· 6 days agoJury selection began today in the rape trial of Terrence Shannon Jr., the 23-year-old Chicago native and University of Illinois men’s basketball standout. Dressed in a dark-blue ...
Tony Awards 2024: ‘Outsiders’ and ‘Stereophonic’ are big winners, plus a long-awaited nod for Daniel...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 hours ago“The Outsiders,” the stirring, coming-of-age musical based on the 1967 young adult novel by S.E. Hinton, won the Tony award for best musical Sunday night, even as Shaina Taub won best book and ...
Evanston/Skokie D65 board votes to close Bessie Rhodes school in 2026
Chicago Tribune· 6 days agoA 5-2 vote sealed the fate of the Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies Monday night after the...