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Three senior House Democrats recently called on the Biden administration to protect certain funding obligations approved in 2021’s bipartisan infrastructure law.
After the recent presidential election, Streetsblog Chicago checked in with local sustainable transportation advocates about what could done to help safeguard the future of walk/bike/transit in our region before Donald Trump takes office again.
Now, Chicagoland's Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04) and other U.S. representatives are urging President Joe Biden to throw out lifeboats for sustainable transportation before the car-centric new administration takes over.
On Monday, Congressional Labor Caucus Co-Chairs Representatives Mark Pocan (D-WI), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), and Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Caucus members Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL) led 133 Members of Congress in Congress in calling on Amazon to respect its employees’ rights and requesting information from the company about its anti-union activities.
Landlords in the Chicago area are using real estate software made by a tech company that may be engaging in an illegal price-fixing scheme to drive up rents, according to a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit and a class-action lawsuit filed in federal court.
RealPage, a Texas-based real estate technology company, allegedly feeds proprietary rent-pricing data into an algorithm that generates daily rent prices for landlords and property managers across the country.