IL lawmakers finally passed a bill overhauling the state's property tax sale system. Our big question: how will homeowners fare in the new system? @cb-312.bsky.social and I dug into the details for @raceandequityproject.org and @injusticewatch.org
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Malik Jackson, former executive director and publisher of South Side Media Works, which operates South Side Weekly, will be the Chicago Reader's next publisher starting June 1.
Over the past five months, a sea of rideshare drivers in yellow T-shirts flooded the Illinois state Capitol almost weekly, lobbying for the right to form a union. They may be able to do so soon, after Illinois lawmakers passed a bill giving them that ability in the final hours of the spring session.
State legislators passed historic reforms to Illinois’ controversial tax sales, which had led to thousands losing their homes and all of their home equity.
Certificates of innocence give exonerees modest state compensation and the right to expunge their records. Why has Cook County's top prosecutor been fighting to block people from getting them? New from @danhinkel.bsky.social @injusticewatch.org w/@boltsmag.org www.injusticewatch.org/project/deny...
new: sheriff tom dart is quietly pitching the cook county board on two new surveillance systems that could be approved as soon as thursday.
dart wants $2 million for a software that uses ai to monitor the jail’s cameras for drug use and nearly $1 million for more flock license plate readers.
Emeline Posner
Chicago Sun-Times
NEW: I took a close look at a buy-here, pay-here car dealer with 128 locations across the country. On the way I learned about repossession tactics, bonus incentives for in-house payments collectors & what it’s like when you’ve got no car but still owe thousands on a car loan tinyurl.com/2d5mcyxt
For @chicagoreader.com , I interviewed regulars at the Harold Washington Library, including: a man who copies reference books by hand, the lawyer who patented the Pringles can, a young woman banned from the library six times.
Davon Clark's amazing pics in thread.
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Here's an update from a chaotic scene following a car crash on the West Side in 2025. An unidentified Black man was placed in a chokehold and temporarily detained by federal immigration agents.
The man told CPD he had nothing to do w/the crash or a robbery.
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House Bill 5090 would regulate how rideshare drivers can form a union, elect union representatives and engage in union activities such as collective bargaining.
CDOT lost the best of our team yesterday. We're heartbroken.
In memory of Riley O'Neil, please refer to these bike racks as "Riley Racks". He led Chicago's bike parking program for several years. Our hearts are broken, but we want to make sure his legacy lives on 💙🚲
Please spread the word
Big markups and double-digit interest rates are the bedrock of Byrider’s business model.
A newly obtained Chicago police report reveals the Black man ‘choked’ by feds in 2025 wasn’t involved in the crash and didn’t have any involvement in a robbery.
