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Council members from the Southwest and Northwest sides, with wards dominated by single-family homes, said allowing homeowners to turn attics, basements and garages into revenue-generating "granny flats" could create problems.
Since 2009, the Chicago Botanic Garden's urban agriculture and jobs training initiative has a 91% job placement rate six months after graduation through its apprenticeship program.
Many current and former City Council members said U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall's sentence struck the appropriate balance between discouraging political corruption and showing the mercy they believed Burke had earned from his many acts of kindness.
A beautiful early summer day in Chicago sees the former lion of the City Council get a two-year prison term.