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Chicago Politics and Urbanism Daily is your daily read on Chicago civic reform — coverage of City Hall, the City Council, the CTA, CPS, and CPD from a build-more-housing, accountability-first frame. Episodes track the mayor and the Council on housing abundance and the homelessness response, permit reform that affects small-business owners and developers, CTA reliability and rail-station safety, and CPD and prosecutorial decisions shaping crime trends across the South, West, and North sides. We dig into alderman votes, CPS board decisions, and Cook County moves that get buried in the daily news cycle. For Chicagoans who follow Chicago politics, the CTA, CPS schools, public safety, and urbanism, the show is short, evidence-led, and unapologetic about preferring outcomes over ideology.
Unknown Host hosts Chicago Politics and Urbanism Daily, a news show with 50 episodes published.
Chicago City Council’s CTA oversight hearing collapsed for lack of quorum as the agency reports service gains before the NITA shift, while Loretto executives near deferred-prosecution deals and City Hall drops street-ven
Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling will retire July 15 after three years leading CPD, opening a high-stakes search as City Council greenlights Bridgeport Crossing and investigators question why lead-pipe replacement cos
Chicago school board representation is lagging as chronic absenteeism remains far above pre-pandemic levels; West Pullman’s former Aldi site gets city-backed grocery predevelopment money, and heat-wave utility aid unders
Chicago’s Damen Silos site faces city code violations over an unauthorized parking lot, while Illinois moves to rein in repeat speeders and City Hall’s parking-meter buyback questions keep the focus on who controls publi
Chicago parking meters are back at City Hall’s center as Johnson’s secret $3.3B buyback bid surfaces, while Cook County sheriff patrols test whether CTA safety can improve through basic-rule enforcement. In this episode:
Chicago sues Airbnb and Slumber Stay over alleged improper rentals, while Logan Square’s redesign, a $10 million state housing investment, and new kindergarten data sharpen the city’s reform agenda on streets, housing, e
Chicago zoning reform gets a hard look through Yonah Freemark’s upzoning research, a City Hall explainer on aldermanic prerogative’s hidden vetoes, and CPS’s hybrid school board as reform promises collide with who actual
Bronzeville Trail crews began environmental soil testing for a $100 million elevated bike path and greenway, putting a South Side connectivity project into motion while Chicago’s wider reform debates over schools, police
Illinois BUILD Act opposition is sharpening from suburban mayors and neighborhood organizers, putting housing abundance against local control and displacement fears. The rest of the brief checks Chicago’s reform machiner
Chicago Board of Education’s hybrid era puts CPS control, CEO power, and voter accountability in focus, while a corruption retrospective shows how aldermanic prerogative helped create the distrust reformers are trying to
Chicago aldermanic prerogative faces a federal civil-rights rebuke over affordable housing and segregation, as City Hall also completes the hybrid CPS board and CTA bus reliability data shows only 9% of routes meeting st
Chicago City Hall’s anti-prerogative reforms and ethics oversight gaps frame a reform checkup, while CTA reliability data show only 9% of bus routes meeting agency standards—evidence that rules on paper still need enforc
Chicago City Hall is weighing single-stair apartment buildings to lower construction costs, while Illinois’ budget adds $350 million for K-12 and the school board ballot faces signature challenges. On the West Side, the
Chicago’s NITA transit law is moving from rescue package to implementation, while City Hall rolls out homebuyer aid, CTU backs a school board contender, and Red Line Extension work starts reshaping Far South Side streets
Gov. JB Pritzker’s housing plan stalled in Springfield as local-control opposition blocked statewide multiunit zoning, while new NITA transit dollars start funding West Side bus frequency and CTA safety upgrades. Got 60
Chicago Transit Authority funding is moving into West Side bus service and cleaner trains as NITA takes shape, while Illinois lawmakers send Gov. JB Pritzker a classroom device ban with real implementation stakes for sch
Chicago transit agencies are getting $132 million as the RTA becomes NITA, while Pritzker’s BUILD plan and Johnson’s renter overhaul test whether City Hall and Springfield can reform housing without stalling supply. In t
Chicago City Council moved to clear barriers for inspector general probes, while CTA reliability data and Chicago’s long aldermanic-corruption record sharpen the same question: whether reform can translate into services
Illinois financial reporting rules could be loosened for local governments as Chicago’s elected school board, federal prosecutorial reforms, Metra service gains, and a transit crime task force all test whether civic refo
Chicago Bears stadium tax-break math is getting sharper: a Cook County Treasurer analysis says the megaprojects bill could save the team $1.5 billion over 40 years, while Illinois budget cuts threaten safety-net hospital
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