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After a nearly three-hour meeting, members were no closer to consensus on how Mayor Brandon Johnson should solve the city’s $35.4 billion pension crisis or generate $800 million in new revenue for "investments in people."
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.
Chicago House will offer housing to 13 families on West 63rd Street in a neighborhood with a high rate of HIV infection. The site will also contain office space for staffers overseeing residential units citywide.
Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele hired Jon Snyder, who testified against his brother. But on Tuesday, Steele placed Snyder on leave.