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The Chicago City Council voted on Friday to ban horse-drawn carriage rides starting in January 2021. Under the ordinance passed Friday, operators will not be able to renew their licenses, and the city will stop issuing new ones, the Chicago Sun Times reported. The city’s 10 existing carriage licenses, each of which has a $500 annual fee, will expire at…

Chicago City Council was scheduled to meet virtually Wednesday, with several items on the agenda, including a vote on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s pick for the city’s new police superintendent.

The Chicago City Council held its first virtual meeting during the coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday.

The Chicago City Council held its first virtual meeting during the coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday. Mary Ann Ahern reports.

The Chicago City Council’s Committee on Contracting Equity and Oversight has passed an ordinance that would delay the legal sale of marijuana in the city until July 1 due to a lack of black and Latino-owned dispensaries.

Frank Olivo, the former 13th Ward Chicago alderman, is a registered lobbyist for Commonwealth Edison, city records show. Eight months after leaving office in 2011, Olivo signed on to lobby the mayor’s office and his former city council colleagues for the public utility, which has come under intense scrutiny in recent months following a series of federal raids in Chicago…

The Chicago City Council’s Committee on Contracting Equity and Oversight has passed an ordinance that would delay the legal sale of marijuana in the city until July 1 due to a lack of black and Latino-owned dispensaries. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski.

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Powerful Chicago Ald. Ed Burke has been charged with attempted extortion for “corruptly soliciting business” for his law firm, weeks after federal agents conducted raids at his 14th Ward office and his finance committee suite on Nov. 29, and then again at City Hall on Dec. 13. The federal complaint was unsealed Thursday.

Ald. Ricardo Munoz was expected to appear in court Thursday to face a charge of domestic battery. Lauren Petty reports.

Urban farming has become more common in Chicago neighborhoods, and now lawmakers have begun pushing for stricter legislation.

A new proposed ordinance before the Chicago City Council would rename a stretch of Lake Shore Drive in honor of the man who is regarded by many historians as the first non-Indigenous settler of the city of Chicago.

The top headlines you need to know as you start your day on Oct. 17, 2019. 

The Chicago City Council gave its blessing to new guidelines for the sale of recreational cannabis Wednesday. But in doing so, they rolled past the objections of some African American aldermen who say the new program ignores those hardest hit by the war on drugs.

The Chicago City Council codified new recreational cannabis guidelines Wednesday, over the objections of African-American alderman who say their communities are getting short-shrift in what promises to be a lucrative new legal industry. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers explains.

Time to change the law, says David Orr.

Some Chicago aldermen spent a lot of money to get out the vote in the last election but they never reported how the money was spent. Now, a prominent politician wants to change the law. NBC 5’s Political Editor Carol Marin reports.

The city of Chicago on Wednesday released more than 6,500 pages of a long-secret Inspector General’s report on the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald, making public for the first time hundreds of pages detailing the investigation into the shooting that rocked the city.