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chicago.suntimes.com | Fran Spielman
Mayor Brandon Johnson doesn’t have the votes to give single family homeowners carte blanche to turn their attics, basements and garages into revenue-generating “granny flats,” and if he doesn’t accept a compromise, a city that needs every affordable housing unit it can get will end up with nothing. That’s the hard reality of the stalled “Accessory Dwelling Unit” ordinance, according to Ald.
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chicago.suntimes.com | Fran Spielman
Former Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) battled the Cubs over all things Wrigley Field for two decades, prompting the Ricketts family that owns the team to bankroll a challenger that Tunney handily defeated. When Bennett Lawson replaced Tunney, his former boss and mentor, he set out to “lower the temperature” and improve a relationship with the Cubs that he called “unnecessarily confrontational.”“There’s ways we can disagree without… having it blow up,” Lawson said Thursday.
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chicago.suntimes.com | Fran Spielman
After more than a decade of political waves that nearly sunk a $16 million marina project, boaters will finally be able to dock at Navy Pier for as short as one hour or as long as two weeks. The privately-funded marina with space for 150 vessels opened Wednesday thanks to the persistence of its founder and developer, Randy Podolsky.
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chicago.suntimes.com | Fran Spielman
A Wall Street rating agency on Tuesday assigned an A- bond rating to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s upcoming plan to borrow more than $600 million for infrastructure, housing and economic development, but revised the outlook to “negative,” signaling a future downgrade.
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chicago.suntimes.com | Fran Spielman
Mayor Brandon Johnson appears to be helping himself politically — and playing to the local crowd — by standing toe-to-toe with President Donald Trump. So it’s no surprise that he’s doing more of it, even if provokes the president and makes Chicago a bigger target. That much was clear again Tuesday when Johnson opened his weekly City Hall news conference by highlighting the many ways Trump’s budget cuts and legal actions threaten to undermine everyday life in Chicago.
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