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No honeymoon for Brandon Johnson — at least not with Fulton Market Association

Just as Johnson settled into his first full workday at City Hall, Fulton Market restaurant owners and business and community leaders were making demands.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 16, 2023

Businessmen seek $5 million in TIF funding to install surveillance cameras in Fulton Market, Garfield Park

The ACLU of Illinois has repeatedly raised alarms about such cameras, warning last year that the city’s camera system “continues to operate without any regulation or privacy or regular public reporting.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 21, 2022

New winterized tents in Chicago bring shelter security for the unhoused, but spark questions of permanency

CHICAGO — A potential showdown is looming in Chicago's Fulton Market area over the arrival of 10 winterized tents for unhoused individuals living under nearby Metra tracks, as the city quickly gave the tent dwellers notice that the shelters must be removed by the morning of Nov. 3 for “off-street…

Chicago Tribune · Oct 27, 2022

New Chicago clinic will offer free dental care to 2,500 Illinois residents a year

CHICAGO -- Low-income Illinois residents will soon be able to receive free dental care at a new 25,000-square-foot clinic being opened in Chicago's Fulton Market district this summer by The Aspen Group, which operates dental and medical clinics across the country and recently moved its headquarters to Chicago.

Chicago Tribune · Mar 2, 2022