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Do you dread the slog thru @CookCntyCourt judicial candidates when voting in Cook County's 2026 primary election? Here's help evaluating candidates (with assist from @injusticewatch): https://t.co/zP1Qx65Sfs #JudicialElections #Election2026

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We've reprised a 2013 state watchdog blast at Congresswoman Robin Kelly @RepRobinKelly for her reported malfeasance as a @ILTreasurer state employee: https://t.co/SaKD3HL6zF #ethicsviolations #ILSen #twill #Illinois

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@RehmanTungekar Sorry, Rehman, off-topic: Are you an administrator of the Chicago Radio Producers Google group (to which I belong)? -Dave G

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View deposition recordings of @BorderPatrolHQ agent Gregory Bovino @CMDROpAtLargeCA ICW federal lawsuit by #chicago media orgs and @Loevy & Loevy, responding to #journalist harassment by federal agents: https://t.co/byOSlgFF0q #immigration #PressFreedom

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Site of @Chicago_Police has exec. summary of "Organizational Profile," 9/2025 snapshot of where staff deployed. But @ChicagoOIG sez deployment data "incomplete & low in quality." https://t.co/XMSaBbT4Bt #cityofchicago #PoliceAccountability #ConsentDecree #ChicagoPoliceDepartment

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Website of @Chicago_Police just posted registration link to Oct. 23 webinar, revealing progress on its workforce allocation study: https://t.co/Wn9Md1aNen More: https://t.co/4dZc3NIjW7 #cityofchicago #PoliceAccountability #ConsentDecree #ChicagoPoliceDepartment

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Proposed 3-year strategic plan by @Chicago_Police: Public comments due at https://t.co/O4iDZJjWuU by May 7. @equip4equality claims "it isn't strategic and it isn't a meaningful plan": https://t.co/ZgX52wqwMC #PoliceAccountability #cityofchicago

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"The City that Doesn't Work" 2025 photo calendar shows city workers "on the job." Former @ChicagoOIG head: "...street projects [have] a whole array of people who have to take turns doing their job w/everybody else sort of standing around": https://t.co/hJ1ANwdzth #cityofchicago

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Watchdogs of #ConsentDecree: @Chicago_Police should stop shadowing them: "[W]hen...visiting CPD facilities...the IMT is often escorted or accompanied by City or CPD personnel, who observe the IMT as we endeavor to observe the CPD": https://t.co/rNnYKv099i #PoliceAccountability

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Since @GovPritzker was elected, @chicagotribune & @Suntimes wrote his name "J.B." Then—on 8/10/24—both papers started writing "JB" (which is how the Guv spells it). @capitolfax foreshadowed it here: https://t.co/EGH9hUTqN7 . Initially puzzling! #Illinois #journalism #twill

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Owners of @UnitedCenter reveal area #development by @RiosImagines. @Suntimes: "there's no plan to request . . . tax increment financing." @chicagotribune: " developers will explore . . . tapping into a neighboring [#TIF] district." #cityofchicago #westside #The1901ProjectChi

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If voters approve (& a @CookCntyCourt judge allows) the #BringChicagoHome Fund, how will @chicagosmayor & @ChiCouncil implement it? Seems hush-hush? Deets: https://t.co/1nxcIkbAh1 #CityofChicago #Election2024 #development #homeless

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@JoeFergChicago @BlockClubCHI @CDRosa @DanielLaSpata Thanks for the gusto, Joe. Readers can find an extended version of the Block Club piece here:
https://t.co/sJ5yUtRK2Q

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ICYMI: Ald. Brian Hopkins (@AldermanHopkins) got offered to chair @ChiCouncil public safety committee by @Brandon4Chicago in 1-min. phone call. Audio from @billjcameron on @wlsam890's 5/12/23 "Take 1:" https://t.co/7otIZKDpmg #chicago #BrandonJohnson

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Meeting adjourns at 11:57 a.m.

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Special 3/30 @ChiCouncil mtg passes R2023-502 (grows # of committees to 28) w/34-10 vote & R2023-503 https://t.co/XNMkqS0dDu (appoints chairs) w/33-11 vote. Opponents want newly elected to vote, wonder where $ comes from, say some ald. excluded. #cityofchicago

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@RLopez15thWard Here's the 3/30 agenda.

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3/30 9 am @ChiCouncil rules committee mtg https://t.co/CtZFqZPmW3 will push @chicagosmayor's board appointments, & #CongressTheater #TIF redevelop't agreem't (stalled at 3/15 council mtg). Lightfoot admin'n will prob. try to get those passed just after @ 9:30 special council mtg.

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That should be Jesse, not Jess. Sorry for the typo.

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Preview of items to be covered in today's @ChiCouncil meeting. @chicagosmayor hasn't announced a post-council press conference. #cityofchicago

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26th Ward Ald.-elect Jess Fuentes just got a short tour of the @ChiCouncil inner-sanctum by her predecessor, @MaldonadoR26

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Meeting adjourns at 1:42 . Next meeting on April 19.

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After lengthy, passionate debate, ald. voted 32-15 on O2023-1124, to accept $20M in state aid for "Emergency Food and Shelter program" refugee assistance.