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🤔This week in the #Newswire (whose idea was it to have a federal holiday on a Tuesday?):

🤑CPD overspends, and taxpayers pay the price. Plus, alders question CPD policies on ICE ⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🤑Straight from the #Newswire: How will city budget cuts affect domestic violence survivors? Plus, a loss for legal services for immigrants⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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🔥Coming in hot from the #Newswire: It’s #BudgetSzn, baby🤑 Plus, tracking federal funding cuts to Chicago services⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
October 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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🤔 Straight out of this week's #Newswire: What happens when your water meter isn’t working. Plus, buy a vacant lot near you … ⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
October 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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🧐From the #Newswire: How you can get involved amid ICE crackdowns. Plus, Know Your Rights trainings, rapid response teams and more ⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
October 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
chidocumenters.bsky.social
😬Are you living with lead? Plus, how you can test your drinking water⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
October 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
chidocumenters.bsky.social
🧐What are the legal repercussions of ICE crackdowns in Chicago? Plus, a hotel for Pullman⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
September 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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🤔 This week in the #Newswire: How can you help amid ICE raids in Chicago? Plus, how to spread information, not panic ⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
September 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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🧐 In this week's #Newswire: CPS has a budget, but at what cost? Plus, a decline in overdose and homicide rates ⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
September 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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🤔 Fresh out of the #Newswire: Chicagoans with disabilities speak out against transit cuts. Plus, CPS weighs its budget options⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
August 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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🤔 From the #Newswire: What is water reuse? Plus, updates on ghost buses👻...
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
August 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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🧐 This week from the #Newswire: What do Police District Council? Plus, landmarks for the West Side⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
August 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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🤔Newswire is back! Plus, Police District Council takes no confidence vote⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
August 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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🤔Today in the #Newswire: How do we keep young people safe? Plus, support for Douglass Park pool shooting victims.

FYI: Newswire is going on vacation 😎We’ll return to your inboxes Wednesday, Aug. 6.
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
July 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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🧐 This week in the #Newswire: Is CPD violating the Welcoming City Ordinance? Plus, update on the Damen Silos demolition⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
July 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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🧐This week in the #Newswire: The future of CPS funding & layoffs. Plus, the latest in how CPD is complying with the federal consent decree⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
July 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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🤔 Today in the #Newswire: So the mayor just vetoed your ordinance… what now? Plus, the status of reparations in Illinois⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
June 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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🧐 This week in the #Newswire: The plan to evade the transit 'doomsday.' Plus, ride-share drivers to unionize⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
June 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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🤨 This week in the #Newswire: What’s good with the grocery tax? Plus, ride-share drivers speak out ⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
June 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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🧐 This week in the #Newswire: Should consent searches be part of a traffic stop policy? Plus, Pedro Martinez’s last stand⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
June 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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🧐This week, in the #Newswire: Where can young people be young? Plus, vaccine rates decline in CPS...
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
May 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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🤔 This week in the #Newswire: How mental health widens Chicago’s life expectancy gap. Plus, the future of pretextual traffic stops⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
May 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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😎 Straight out of this week's #Newswire: Chicago could actually get ‘Green Social Housing.' Plus, Peoples Gas is back on the hot seat...
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
May 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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🔥 Hot off the presses, it's this week's #Newswire: How a proposed ‘snap curfew’ could violate rights. Plus, police mediation returns...
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
May 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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🤓 In this week's #Newswire: What is the Green Social Housing ordinance? Plus, CTA expands controversial AI pilot👀
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
April 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM