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The community-owned store offering locally sourced food and products was 10 years in the making, owners said.
The measure would stiffen penalties for lobbyists who contribute to mayoral campaigns in defiance of a 2011 executive order signed by then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel. In other action, after vigorous debate, the Council approved a "quiet zone" around a West Loop abortion clinic.
The festival will be exiting Douglass Park after a 10-year run that has been plagued by controversy in recent years.
Patchin will succeed Jim Garrett, who will retire after serving as president and CEO of the bureau since 1996.