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Heather Cherone's coverage is heavily focused on local government and politics in Chicago, with a significant emphasis on legal policy regulation. Her articles predominantly cover announcements from the government and legal developments. She provides extensive coverage of city council decisions, corruption trials, law enforcement activities, and issues related to migrants in Chicago.
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By: Heather Cherone
The Chicago City Council will weigh an effort to weaken Chicago’s protections for undocumented immigrants at the request of two alderpeople who have long opposed the city’s status as a self-proclaimed sanctuary city as Chicago’s immigrant communities brace for mass deportations.
By: Heather Cherone
Chicago’s high-stakes bet that a casino could ease its financial crunch has yet to pay off, according to a new report presented to a City Council committee Friday.
By: Heather Cherone, Joanna Hernandez
For four decades, Chicago has held the designation of a sanctuary city — but what does it mean, and how has Chicago’s status endured?
By: Heather Cherone
The Chicago Board of Ethics fined indicted former Ald. Carrie Austin’s son, who works as an assistant commissioner in the Department of Streets and Sanitation, $7,000 on Monday for supervising his former sister-in-law for six years, in violation of the city’s governmental ethics ordinance.
By: Heather Cherone, Michael Izquierdo Wttw
A Wall Street ratings agency downgraded Chicago’s credit rating Tuesday, blasting Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago City Council for crafting a 2025 spending plan that leaves intact “a sizable structural budgetary imbalance” that will only worsen the city’s financial condition.
By: Heather Cherone
The seeds of the crisis now engulfing the Chicago Public Schools and Mayor Brandon Johnson were sown during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Chicago City Council agreed Wednesday to pay $38.25 million to resolve four lawsuits alleging that misconduct by Chicago police officers led to the death of a woman and the wrongful incarceration of three men for a combined 56 years.
By: Heather Cherone
A monthslong effort to lower Chicago’s default speed limit to 25 mph from 30 mph hit a red light on Wednesday, with supporters of the push calling off a planned vote.
By: Heather Cherone
Trump International Tower and Hotel on the Chicago River. (Alexandre Fagundes / iStock)
By: Heather Cherone
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s push to focus his administration’s anti-violence efforts on 10 of Chicago’s “most vulnerable” areas on the city’s West and South sides is “just getting started,” according to an evaluation of the plan released Wednesday by city officials.
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