By Bob Seidenberg City and development officials highlighted the affordable housing features of a five-story, 60-unit, mixed-income apartment building planned for the city’s far south end at a well-attended Third Ward meeting Aug. 31. The Housing Authority of Cook County is teaming up with Cleveland-based PIRHL Developers, an affordable housing organization the city selected to…

By Bob Seidenberg Two senior City Council members took strong issue with the head of a group that markets the city as a destination place, suggesting her past remarks advocating for Northwestern University’s $800 million stadium project “crossed the line” in their criticism of residents who oppose the project. At the Aug. 28 City Council…

Close to $240,000 in attorney’s fees spent on the case By Bob SeidenbergA Cook County Circuit Court judge granted the city’s request Thursday to dismiss its nearly $6 million lawsuit brought against a contractor, alleging faulty workmanship on the downtown Fountain Square project. Judge Patrick Sherlock granted  the city’s motion for voluntary dismissal without prejudice…

By Bob Seidenberg The city’s Human Services Committee backed a City Council member’s request of $1.75 million from the General Fund to bring together a number of services to address homelessness, with special emphasis on the encampments that have arisen around Howard Street and elsewhere. Committee members voted 4-1 to move the issue to the full council for its Sept….

By Bob Seidenberg Former Eighth Ward Council Member Ann Rainey and her campaign team found a novel – and very green – way to resolve what to do with leftover campaign funds after 34 years in office. In an Aug. 17 ceremony on the south lawn of the Levy Senior Center, Rainey dedicated three trees…