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Regulators have approved a controversial proposed cannabis dispensary for Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood, despite a recommended denial from the city zoning administrator. Opponents say it is too close to a school and will delay emergency vehicles.
The business was approved by a 3-2 vote of the Zoning Board of Appeals, including a vote in favor by former Ald. Helen Shiller, whose son helped the business obtain a license but was not involved in the zoning case.
Consultants for the business said the school in dispute was primarily a day care, and like any other retailer, the store won’t cause major disruptions.
“The hysteria (about cannabis stores problems) that may have existed 10 years ago just has not come to fruition,” dispensary attorney Jim Banks said. “There’s no evidence of an impact on increased crime, traffic or property values.”
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Illinois has been flyover territory for the nation’s presidential candidates, its preference for Democrats assured since 1992 when it chose Bill Clinton over George H.W. Bush, who had won the state and the election four years earlier.
But some of the themes Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have emphasized heading into Tuesday’s election are being echoed in campaigns throughout Illinois’ down ballot contests.
Recent violence against CTA bus and train workers is a snapshot of an issue that has long been a concern for the unions representing train and bus operators in Chicago. It is part of a nationwide, decades-long uptick in attacks on transit workers, one researcher found, with implications for transit employees, riders and the systems themselves.
Seven years ago almost to the day, Alaina Hampton sent a private letter to then-House Speaker Michael Madigan about sexual harassment from a co-worker that became a turning point in Madigan’s record-setting reign.
The letter set off a chain reaction that weakened Madigan’s grip on the House Democratic caucus, which began to question how he handled sexual harassment issues.
To Dioselina Salto, the first two weeks of motherhood were amazing, even though she spent much of it in the hospital after her daughter was born prematurely.
She visited her daughter Janelle twice a day, held her close to her own skin and pumped breast milk for her, which doctors supplemented with specialized formula.
But a midnight call from the hospital changed everything.
Before they lost contact, Ellie Dyckman relied on her younger brother Joey. He helped her cope with her divorce, taught her two daughters how to swim and ride a bicycle and coached her daughters’ softball team in grade school.
He had a messy room, but his car was “always immaculate,” Dyckman said. He loved “The Three Stooges,” and used to spend hours on Saturdays watching cartoons with one of his nieces.
Yet as his opioid addiction escalated, the once-inseparable siblings drifted apart. On the day Joey died, Dyckman had no idea that her brother was even living on the streets.
Electric vehicles are all the rage at the four-unit brick building in McKinley Park where three generations of the Breems family live.
So much for a classic bounce-back spot for the Chicago Bears. A week after a disastrous last-second loss at Washington, they got steamrolled by the Arizona Cardinals, a 29-9 loss that only adds to the mounting list of poor road performances under coach Matt Eberflus.
Here are 10 thoughts after the latest setback with tension sure to mount at Halas Hall.
On Nov. 8, 1949, Aaron Bindman, the secretary treasurer of a warehouse workers union, invited 16 shop stewards to his home at 5643 S. Peoria St.
The get-together was called in part to celebrate a victory by striking sugarcane cutters in Hawaii, two of whom were touring the country and were on hand to tell their story. Bindman’s home was in a white section of Englewood. Half of his guests were Black.
There’s no shortage of art this fall that’ll remind you of famous people running for the most powerful offices in the world. And then there’s Federico Solmi’s “The Great Farce,” which recently opened at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University.
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