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By Heather Cherone, November 14, 2022

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her allies on the Chicago City Council blocked a Monday hearing on a proposal to ask voters during the February election to hike taxes on the sales of properties worth $1 million or more in an effort to fight homelessness in Chicago.

Dozens of Chicagoans who waited hours to get their turn to address the Chicago City Council for three minutes were prevented from speaking. Only 25 City Council members attended the meeting — one short of the majority needed to hold the public hearing.

By Michelle Gallardo, November 14, 2022

CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago City Council did not take up the issue of a proposed real estate tax transfer increase Monday because not enough council members showed up to even discuss it. The money would help people who are homeless.

It was Chicago politics at their finest. Homeless advocates suffered a blow as a lack of quorum at a specially convened City Council meeting essentially killed a proposal that would have put a real estate transfer tax increase question on the February ballot.

By Tonia Hill, November 14, 2022

Affordable housing advocates are urging Chicagoans to read and sign their online letter to Mayor Lori Lightfoot. 

In the body of the letter penned to Lightfoot, the Bring Chicago Home (BCH) coalition asks that she join their demonstration at 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 3 at 110 N. Wacker Dr. 

They are also asking that the mayor support their ballot measure that would ask Chicago voters if the city should increase the real estate transfer tax for buyers who purchase residential or commercial properties for more than $1 million, and redirect those funds from the city toward efforts to combat homelessness. 

By Heather Cherone, November 14, 2022

The Chicago City Council will hold a hearing Monday on a proposal to ask voters during the February election to hike taxes on the sales of properties worth $1 million or more in an effort to fight homelessness in Chicago.

By Fran Spielman, November 7, 2022

A divided City Council on Monday handed Mayor Lori Lightfoot the $16.4 billion 2023 budget that will serve as her reelection platform amid complaints that it shortchanges public safety, climate change and her own progressive promises. 

By Jordan Anderson, November 3, 2022

Activists gathered Thursday morning in downtown Chicago to protest the removal of winterized tents that had been tagged by the city with notices warning occupants the tents had to be cleared for a street cleaning scheduled for Thursday.

November 3, 2022

In front of an expensive loop area building today to make a point about using building sales to fight homelessness in Chicago surrounded by demonstrators outside the bank of America building good Wacker drive Antonio Hernandez said he was homeless for almost 3 years and is upset with the way the city deals with people in 10 cities to take away their personal belongings and the items that they need in order for them to survive.