Mariah Woelfel

Performer Al Scorch, who's gone viral with his social media reviews of Chicago Park District bathrooms, has a new project reciting Chicago's municipal code line by line.

It's been nearly a year since start of Operation Midway Blitz, and more than two months since a judge denied a bid for a special prosecutor.

Ha pasado casi un año desde que comenzó el Operativo Midway Blitz y más de dos meses desde que una jueza rechazó la solicitud para un fiscal especial.

The debt refinancing will save the city between roughly $65 million to $71 million this year, Johnson said. If needed, the city will also tap into remaining pandemic-era relief funds to help close the gap.

A national group behind the order says the city holds $3.19 million in contracts with 42 companies doing business with ICE.

The city is asking a judge to issue a fine of $11,500 per day for every day that the violations are not corrected.

For years, city building inspectors weren't able to get inside the funeral home property where 56 bodies were mishandled last month — and numerous government agencies were familiar with the owners.

Gunfire erupted late Saturday as former residents of the Robert Taylor Homes gathered for a reunion. Rontonio Guterz was killed and 14 others were wounded in the largest mass shooting this year in Chicago.

Johnson said the budget gap — again one of the city's largest of the past two and a half decades — is driven in part by $70 million more in the city's bond payments, $90 million more in pension obligations, cost-of-living adjustments for union workers, and commodity price hikes linked to the U.S. war against Iran, including $32 million more in fuel and energy costs.

Johnson said the budget gap — again one of the city’s largest of the past two and a half decades — is driven in part by $70 million more in the city’s bond payments, $90 million more in pension obligations, cost-of-living adjustments for union workers, and commodity price hikes linked to the U.S.…