Politics Reporter

Gabe Greschler

Lurie and allies may overhaul city’s ‘overly complicated’ charter with 2026 measure

Politics

The roughly 540-page charter has made governing too difficult, reformers argue.

Senior Politics Reporter

Josh Koehn

Lurie family invested in tech firm that won controversial city contract

Documents show the mayor had a stake in two funds invested in OpenGov, the software company tapped by a policy chief to solve the city’s permit crisis.

She won the city’s biggest corruption case. Now she’ll be its most powerful watchdog

Assistant U.S. attorney Alexandra Shepard, who helped send Mohammed Nuru to prison, has been selected as the city’s first inspector general.

Top Lurie chief steered contract to tech firm with ties to mayor

Records show the mayor’s office chose the software company OpenGov over a cheaper vendor that a majority of city staff preferred.

Editor-at-Large

Adam Lashinsky

In the debate over Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan, emotions are still trumping facts 

Opinion

 I called the mayor’s upzoning scheme “incremental.” Some readers were having none of it.

City Hall

Lurie and allies may overhaul city’s ‘overly complicated’ charter with 2026 measure

Lurie family invested in tech firm that won controversial city contract

She won the city’s biggest corruption case. Now she’ll be its most powerful watchdog

Top Lurie chief steered contract to tech firm with ties to mayor

In the debate over Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan, emotions are still trumping facts