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Lightfoot’s development czar reflects on 4-year fight for balanced growth

Samir Mayekar says business leaders have to view urban job creation as a sustainable business plan and not just philanthropy.

Chicago Sun-Times

Too much of London is out of reach for disabled people, mayor warned

Politicians at City Hall have said they want inclusive design to be at the heart of London’s planning system

Evening Standard

Negotiations over Biden administration claim that City Hall engaged in environmental racism are down to the wire

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and HUD are trying to work out a settlement before she leaves office. The agency found that Chicago relocates polluting businesses from white communities to Black and Latino neighborhoods.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Former Tory leader considering surprise bid to become party’s London mayoral candidate

Party chiefs keen to have woman on shortlist to challenge Sadiq Khan

Evening Standard

Ransomware attack affects Dallas police, court websites

Authorities say Dallas was hit with a computer ransomware attack that brought down its Police Department and City Hall websites and caused some jury trials to be canceled

The Independent UK

Give Transport Secretary power to overturn Ulez, says Tory MP

Conservative former cabinet minister Theresa Villiers said the Government should have the power to intervene

Evening Standard

Mayor-elect picks another City Hall veteran to serve as chief operating officer

Roberson most recently has held a series of top jobs in the administration of County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and held several position under former Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Sadiq Khan rejects call for London social housing ‘champion’

The London Assembly’s cross-party housing committee said a social housing commissioner for the capital would give tenants a louder voice

Evening Standard

Bar owners, Greater Grand Crossing residents at odds over crowds, violence on East 75th Street

The battle over the historic Black business district provides a window into street-level democracy, Chicago-style. In the middle of the fray, City Hall is the referee.

Chicago Sun-Times

Belfast City Hall to spend over £1,000 on three trees for King's coronation

All parties agreed to the spend

Belfast Live

London’s emergency services could face ‘capacity pressures’ in event of terror attack

A cross-party group of London politicians has warned Mayor Sadiq Khan that the capital’s emergency services could face difficulties responding to a major terrorist incident

Evening Standard

Parents not reporting missing children due to low trust in police, report warns

Those who do report children missing ‘face frustrating delays and inaccurate information’, City Hall committee finds

The Independent UK

Air in every London borough breaches WHO guidelines on toxic nitrogen dioxide

Every single one of almost 2,000 diffusion tubes placed across London detected levels of nitrogen dioxide which breach WHO guidelines

Evening Standard

Belfast Cornmarket digital advert's plan facing opposition at City Hall

Councillors will make decision on the planning application after the May elections

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Evening Standard

Tories seeking ‘star power’ mayor candidate to try and oust Sadiq Khan

Tory chiefs will meet on Monday evening to discuss fast tracking a candidate to take on Sadiq Khan next May

Evening Standard

City Hall staff given access to private mammograms after concerns about NHS programme in London

City Hall staff are to be given access to private mammograms after concerns grew about the NHS’s breast screening programme in London.

Chicago Sun-Times

Acting CPD leader resigns amid search for top cop, Mayor-elect Johnson’s new chief of staff and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mayor-elect Johnson chooses City Hall ‘lifer’ as his chief of staff

After retiring two weeks ago as chief of the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications, 54-year-old Rich Guidice has agreed to serve as Brandon Johnson’s first chief of staff.

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Los Angeles Times

Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan dies at 92

LOS ANGELES — Richard J. Riordan, the take-charge venture capitalist who as mayor shepherded Los Angeles’ rebound from the 1992 riots, expanded its Police Department and masterminded its recovery from the Northridge earthquake, has died at his Brentwood home.

Chicago Sun-Times

PPP fraud probe results in 6 Chicago Park District employees resigning, 5 facing discipline

Separately, City Hall Inspector General Deborah Witzburg’s investigation of COVID relief Paycheck Protection Program fraud “is a large-scale undertaking” that could lead to criminal charges.

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan urged to boost ‘life-changing’ adult education opportunities

The London Assembly’s economy committee warned that adult education was “not reaching the number of Londoners that it could do”

Evening Standard

‘Scandal’ of £3.5 billion handed to London landlords for substandard homes each year

Some 178,784 homes in London are of a ‘non-decent’ standard - and renters can expect to pay on average £19,503 per year to live in one

Belfast Live

New West Belfast social housing estate approved despite "being in middle of industrial site"

Warning has been made regarding noise, air quality, smell and pests complaints as a result of adjacent commercial premises

Chicago Sun-Times

Year of the Incumbent? Only one sitting City Council member unseated this year — first time in a century

The solitary defeat of appointed Ald. Anabel Abarca (12th) marks the fewest defeated incumbents since Chicago instituted the 50-member City Council system in 1923. Seven sitting members were knocked out in each of the previous two election cycles.

The Guardian - UK

Private landlords in England get £1.6bn a year welfare for ‘non-decent’ homes

Sadiq Khan describes figures from City Hall analysis as a scandal, with London the worst affected region

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