Bob Fioretti

CPS closures, Ventra snafus overshadowed aldermanic shifts in the City Council as Rahm kept rolling.

Community groups estimated 21 proposed charters up for approval would cost $21 million the first year.

After the video's release, residents questioned the CHA's plan to transform public housing.  

Parents, students and teachers demanded TIF funds, an elected school board and a moratorium on charters.

Student, parent and teacher groups planned a City Hall protest Monday on a national day of action.

The CTA Blue Line stop at Division Street could be renamed as well.

A proposal that would impose a five-year ban on felons as carriage drivers clears Council committee.

Brian Hopkins, top aide for Commissioner John Daley, will run regardless of what Ald. Bob Fioretti does.

Ald. Bob Fioretti proposed hearings on the CTA's Ventra system just as it was about to crash.

Aldermen largely debated TIFs instead of a procedural issue involving the Rules Committee.

Aldermen Bob Fioretti and John Arena invoked Rule 41 in calling for a vote on their school proposals.

The Chatham lawmaker takes over the idea-blocking committee "where good legislation goes to die."

The Grassroots Collaborative mixed City Hall protest with Halloween to win more school funding.

The Grassroots Collaborative will try to raise legislation "buried" in the Rules Committee for Halloween.

Aldermen back police officers in their pursuit of retroactive pay raises in any new contract.