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In 1977, the City of Chicago passed an ordinance requiring that people wishing to demonstrate at public parks have $250,000 in insurance in order to obtain a permit. [17] As Collin and NSPA could not afford the insurance, they began to apply for permits to march in Chicago suburbs, including Skokie , a suburb with a largely Jewish population ...
The Chicago Park District oversees more than 600 parks with over 8,800 acres (3,600 ha) of municipal parkland including their field houses, as well as 27 beaches, 78 pools, 11 museums, two world-class botanical conservatories, 16 historic lagoons and 10 bird and wildlife gardens that are found within the city limits. [3]
Operation Crooked Code is a federal investigation into the corruption surrounding the City of Chicago's Department of Building and Zoning. As of September 2009, Operation Crooked Code had resulted in charges against more than two dozen individuals, 13 of them city inspectors charged with bribery and bribery-related crimes. [1]
In a high-profile rebuke of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city’s Law Department, aldermen narrowly rejected a $2 million police settlement Wednesday from a controversial case of alleged ...
Justice Harlan argued that the concept of due process of law required fair compensation to be given for any private property seized by the state. In responding to the City of Chicago's claim that due process of law was served merely by allowing the railroad company's grievance to be heard, Harlan stated that satisfying legislative procedure alone is not enough to satisfy due process: "In ...
Austin Town Hall Park is a park at 5610 W. Lake Street in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.The site was formerly used for the town hall of Cicero Township.The Austin subdivision of Cicero was annexed to the City of Chicago in 1899, and the town hall site eventually became part of the Chicago Park District.
There are roughly 68,000 homeless people in Chicago on any given night. CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago voters have rejected a one-time real estate tax on properties over $1 million to pay for services ...
Getting around Chicago has long been difficult for David Zoltan, but nonetheless he once would have jumped on a bus to get a bite to eat. He would take public transit to meet up with friends, and ...