The rental companies could overturn the bans by collecting signatures from 10% of the precinct voters, around 150 to 200 signatures.

In a recent court hearing, Snelling criticized a plan to allow CPD to issue 30-minute curfews, even though he defended the ordinance to the Sun-Times last week.

Born and raised in Logan Square, Quezada was appointed this spring and aims to focus on transit, affordable housing and local business support as alderman. "Young people need to see themselves in government,

The Chicago City Council, long derided as a mayoral puppet, is increasingly operating independent of the wishes of the mayor’s office.

Velva Cox has lived in her South Side home for 50 years. At one time, her block on South Honore Avenue was filled with mature trees. “I thought that was so pretty,” Cox

Chicago leaders are demanding an investigation after agents detained several people outside a South Loop immigration center.

Ald. Andre Vasquez wants to investigate whether police violated the Welcoming City ordinance during an ICE operation last week. Chicago police officials said officers were on the scene to preserve public safety and did not violate the ordinance.

Leopardo Construction, in partnership with Ujamaa Construction, recently broke ground on The Ave., a 52-unit mixed-use affordable housing development at 3601 W. Chicago Ave. in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood.

Chicago native Warren Baker started buying and converting apartment buildings into student housing in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood in 1985. His once-scrappy company went on to forge

If the full City Council approves, alderpeople could ban new vacation rentals in individual precincts. The onus to gather signatures from 10% of registered voters in that precinct would then be on Airbnb and Vrbo to overturn a local ban.