Lift the Ban Coalition braces for a 2020 fight in Springfield
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Rent control referendum hits three more wards on November ballot
Lift the Ban Coalition steps up pressure for state senate vote on rent control bill
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Landlords for rent control? You heard that right
Little Village property owners are seeing benefits in a new proposed state senate bill.
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Here’s what’s next in the push to lift the ban on rent control in Illinois
A referendum on primary ballots in 77 Chicago precincts showed 75 percent support of repealing the Rent Control Preemption Act.
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Two gubernatorial candidates support repealing Illinois’s rent control ban
J.B. Pritzker and Daniel Biss both say the 1997 law needs to go.
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The movement for rent control in Chicago is gaining momentum
A new grassroots coalition is mobilizing in the face of rising rents and no-cause evictions.
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In the face of rising evictions, legislators continue push for repeal of Illinois’s ban on rent control
Despite growing interest in rent regulation, Pilsen residents facing displacement remain skeptical of lawmakers.
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The secret history of Illinois’s rent control prohibition
How conservatives preempted rent control before the public was ready to talk about it.
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A Logan Square pedestrian crash shows how difficult it can be to get justice after a driver flees
CPD hasn’t yet found the driver who struck Richard Pallardy.
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Kennedy family scion Chris Kennedy announces gubernatorial bid, and other Chicago news
Also, the Chicago police have stopped using a dated, controversial training video.
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Progressives join forces with the Machine to realign Chicago’s Democratic Party
The Garcia crowd teamed up with the Madigan bunch in last week’s Illinois primary.
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State reps Guzzardi & Reaves-Harris talk the budget at the Hideout!
State reps Will Guzzardi and Pamela Reaves-Harris will join Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky to try to make sense of the state’s budget madness at the First Tuesdays show at the Hideout tomorrow at 6:30 PM.
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What’s Governor Rauner up to? None of your business
The governor conceals key parts of his meeting schedule.
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Can a 26-year-old beat Rey Colon in the 35th Ward?
Progressive Carlos Rosa enters the race to take on Rahm’s loyalists.
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Another election, another round of mixed-up Democrats
Beneath the Democratic party’s call for unity, discord reigns.