Chicago Politics and Urbanism Daily

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...