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Illinois Housing Push, CPS Leak Probe Test Reform Nerves
Monday, May 11, 2026 · 4 min
Illinois’ housing-abundance fight is moving from abstract need to statewide rules, while CPS governance faces another trust test after a leak investigation found no culprit and raised cost questions.
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Illinois’ housing-abundance fight is moving from abstract need to statewide rules, while CPS governance faces another trust test after a leak investigation found no culprit and raised cost questions.
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- Illinois's BUILD plan: what it could mean for Chicagoland housing - Chicago Cityscape - Blog — Chicago Cityscape
1. [Home](/index.php) 2. [Blog](/blogs.php) 3. [This blog post](#) # Illinois's BUILD plan: what it could mean for Chicagoland housing Published on Apr. 22, 2026 by Steven Vance *Updated on Apr. 28, 2026* Illinois is closer than it has ever been to passing a serious statewide housing reform package. Governor JB Pritzker's **BUILD Plan** — short for *Building Up Illinois Development* — was the…
- Chicago school board investigates media leaks, to no avail — Chicago Tribune
A law firm hired by the Chicago Board of Education has come up empty in its effort to identify the sources of two separate media leaks, one of which revealed the names of finalists in the school district’s CEO search last fall. The board’s law firm, Salvatore Prescott Porter & Porter, interviewed most of the 21 board members and reviewed their emails, but found “insufficient evidence to reach a…