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Going to start a 2027 Chicago budget thread. Lots of numbers flying around. First: how did 2025 end up? The city ended the year with a surplus thanks to strong revenues and some underspending on programs the mayor has lauded: chicagotribune.com/2026/07/01/chi…
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New from @drewjayadams and me: a candidate for Chicago mayor accidentally made registered voters' personal data available on his campaign website, effectively doxing 1.5 million city voters.
The issue has since been fixed — after we informed the campaign.
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The issue has since been fixed — after we informed the campaign.
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Tax-increment financing is opaque and complicated, arguably by design. So last year, we had an idea: what if we could show the actual impact of TIFs on all of our tax bills?
Today, we've published the result:
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Today, we've published the result:
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Gov. JB Pritzker, who put a pause on new sales and use tax breaks on data centers already, wants Illinois lawmakers to act on data center regulations via @oliviaolanderr — chicagotribune.com/2026/09/24/gov…
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I’m interested to see whether there’s tighter restrictions on 1. property tax breaks and 2. how data centers are assessed. Though developers spend hundreds of millions outfitting them, they often want to be treated (for tax purposes) like fancy warehouses: chicagotribune.com/2026/08/23/spe…
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AI cannot replace journalists. Do not even try. Support the journalists who seek the truth and tell it, not a machine that may not be able to spell it. Stories are told by humans, not machines without souls.
Join us in demanding no layoffs due to AI from Chicago Public Media!
Emails for CPM’s management are in the reply ⬇️
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Today our members showed up to bargaining to once again tell CPM we're asking for real protection:
• No layoffs due to generative Al
• No cutting hours/pay due to GenAl
• No eliminating future jobs to make room for GenAl
• GenAl can't write or create our editorial content
• No layoffs due to generative Al
• No cutting hours/pay due to GenAl
• No eliminating future jobs to make room for GenAl
• GenAl can't write or create our editorial content
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Exciting news from our new colleagues @dhnewsguild! We stand in solidarity with them in their fight for union recognition.
Today the editorial workers of the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago have formed a union, the Daily Herald News Guild. Follow us on @dhnewsguild on X and Instagram. We're also on Facebook.
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Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here’s How You Can Help.
From @BlockClubCHI: blockclubchicago.org/2026/08/21/gar…
From @BlockClubCHI: blockclubchicago.org/2026/08/21/gar…
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Heckuva story by @poolcar4 about the tangled and troubling web woven by the state's special prosecutions unit: injusticewatch.org/project/shadow…
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Adding this CPS story from @KateArmanini and @oliviaolanderr (with chart assistance from moi) breaking down some budget history. City TIF + pension help included 🎁🔗 chicagotribune.com/2026/08/01/cps…
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@KateArmanini @oliviaolanderr With the impending exit of Annette Guzman, the city will be without a permanent CFO and budget director heading into budget season. With @byaliceyin 🎁🔗 chicagotribune.com/2026/08/03/may…
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Greetings from IBEW Local 134 headquarters, where ILSOS Alexi Giannoulias is about to kick off his campaign launch for Chicago mayor
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Johnson on whether new $285M TIF estimate from CPS is feasible: “I will continue to work with City Council members who understood the assignment at the time in which I declared those TIF surplus dollars. … But again, that work entails the state of Illinois doing its part.”
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Treasurer's office estimate last week was that CPS was actually still owed $70-$80M (chicagotribune.com/2026/07/15/cps…). Districts have had to do their own math because distribution reports that say which tax year money is coming from/what's left are still held up: chicagotribune.com/2026/02/09/lib…
NEW: CPS financial woes might be $250 million worse than initially thought, thanks to problems with Cook County. A CPS spokesperson says the County shorted the school district by a quarter billion of what it was owed from this year's first installment property tax disbursements. The Cook Co. Treasurer's Office says its due to a "collection adjustment...due to ongoing defects in the Tyler Technologies system." This comes as the current installment will be mailed out 2 months late.
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2022: “We are in this business for the long haul... We own these stores, we’re in the city, and we’re there to stay.”
Now, YB stores shuttering, citing SNAP cuts' impact. What happens to the public $ promised to prop up the stores? @talia_soglin reports: chicagotribune.com/2026/07/21/sav…
Now, YB stores shuttering, citing SNAP cuts' impact. What happens to the public $ promised to prop up the stores? @talia_soglin reports: chicagotribune.com/2026/07/21/sav…
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Impact reporting from @JakeSheridan_:
Chicago alderman critical of parking meter bidder’s ICE ties has own financial link to ICE chicagotribune.com/2026/07/17/chi…
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Our story: Illinois House Speaker Welch's office knew of harassment claims against disgraced state Rep. Benton years ago chicagotribune.com/2026/07/17/sta…
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