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Term Limits For Chicago’s Mayor? Ex-Gov. Pat Quinn Says Yes

Former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is back in the limelight with a new campaign that targets Chicago’s City Hall.

Every Chicago neighborhood and almost every suburb felt the impact of public housing transformation.

In some neighborhoods, new clusters of subsidized housing. In others, poverty is ‘a lot more invisible now.’

The number of subsidized households in Chicago’s suburbs jumped almost 30 percent since 2000.

New law uses 2015 privatization ordinance as model for transparency and oversight of risky financial deals.

Corporations keep choosing Downtown Chicago despite city’s staggering problems.

Presidential candidate saved a whopping $800,000 in property taxes on his unoccupied penthouse because of a unique Cook County policy.

Watchdog group sends letters backing bipartisan legislation that if signed into law will help to reform, improve and repair Illinois.

Chicago enacts safeguards against “toxic swaps” after paying big price for risky deals.

In wake of Sun-Times/BGA stories on public housing tenants living in apartments with code violations, CHA may stop outsourcing Section 8 management.