Chicago Privatization

Emanuel: Citywide Recycling By 2013, Thanks To Competitive Bidding

Posted 04.07.2012

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Shortly after taking office, Mayor Rahm Emanuel promised to revamp Chicago's recycling system after more than a decade of failed attempts. Last su...

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FINALLY: Will Emanuel Plan Bring Curbside Recycling To All Chicagoans?

Posted 09.17.2011

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For years, Chicago has struggled to put a reasonable recycling program in place. First, there was the failed blue bag system, which was finally scrapp...

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Taste Of Chicago: Crime, As Well As Revenue, Reportedly Down

Posted 09.04.2011

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While this year's Taste of Chicago festival, the first managed by the city's Park District, lacked some of the chaos that peppered last year's event, ...

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Will Rahm's Team Keep The Privatization Trend Alive?

Chicago Reader | Heather Kenny | Posted 06.20.2011

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Rahm Emanuel's pick for the city's new chief financial officer suggests he's more open to privatization than he mentioned previously to reporters and ...

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Daley Scrambling To Privatize Recycling Before His Term Is Up

Posted 06.01.2011

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One of the broad themes of the Daley administration has been a belief in private industry to handle typically government-run services. Selling control...

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Private Company Will Manage New CPS High School

Chicago Public Radio | Posted 05.25.2011

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About 300 high-school freshmen will begin classes next week at the newly built Eric Solorio Academy. It's the first public high school named after a p...

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Two Finalists Picked For Illinois Lottery Contract

AP | TAMMY WEBBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Two private companies were named as finalists Monday for a lucrative, first-of-its-kind contract to manage Illinois' lottery and will ...

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City For Sale: Daley Proposes Privatizing Taste Of Chicago, Recycling, More

Posted 05.25.2011

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It's no secret that Chicago's mayor is a fan of privatization. In recent years, the Daley administration has cut lucrative (if mismanaged) deals to le...

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Chicago To Dip Into Parking Meter, Skyway Funds As Budget Gap Looms

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chicago is facing a record budget shortfall -- approaching $700 million when the cost of police and fire contracts are factored in -- setting the stag...

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Mayor Daley Urged To Privatize Animal Care After Dog-Kill Fiasco

suntimes.com | CRIME, GUNS, and VIDEOTAPE | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mayor Daley was urged Thursday to privatize Chicago's Commission on Animal Care and Control after the $4.5 million-a-year agency was accused of mistak...

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Mayor Daley To Privatize Some City Hiring

Posted 05.25.2011

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Continuing a trend that has spanned much of his tenure as mayor, Chicago's Richard M. Daley announced today the privatization of another major city fu...

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Will Chicago Privatize Its Water?

Posted 05.25.2011

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Chicagoans are understandably wary of privatization deals, where the city sells off public services to private contractors for an immediate payoff. Bu...

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Alderman On Lease Of City Water System: 'There Is Something In The Works'

Chicago Tribune | Michael Hawthorne | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mayor Richard Daley says any part of city government is up for grabs if the price is right. But if he is tempted to dangle Chicago's vast water syste...

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City Council Clashes Over Parking Meter Deal, Passes Privatization Review

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Under fire for giving quickie approval to the problem-plagued parking meter privatization that raised rates sky-high, the City Council agreed today to...

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Chastened Aldermen Want More Time To Review City Privatization Deals

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Burned by the problem-plagued privatization of Chicago's 36,000 parking meters, aldermen moved Monday to slow down and shine the light on future asset...

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Remorseful Aldermen To City: Put All Privatization Deal Info Online

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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Three aldermen are calling on Mayor Richard Daley's administration to provide more information about the privatization of city assets such as the park...

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Chicago: The Privatized City of the Future

Michael Moreci | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is the dream of business-minded elected officials: Boatloads of cash come in and none goes out. As Chicago sells off more and more, they'll be required to do less and less.

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Daley Urges Obama To Lease Federal Assets

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mayor Daley has already unloaded four of Chicago's most valuable assets for a $6 billion mountain of cash amid concern he is mortgaging the city's fut...

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The Parking Meter Deal: Right Idea, Wrong Reasons

David Hoyt | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Hoyt

What could be a long-term revenue generator for a city in budgetary crisis has been traded for a one-time fix in operating revenue.

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City Privatizing Parking Meters

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011

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It looks like Mayor Daley's giant budget gamble has paid off -- and then some. On Monday, the city received what a top mayoral aide described as a "w...

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Midway Airport Privatized In $2.5 Billion Deal

Crain's Chicago Business | Paul Merrion | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mayor Richard Daley says the city has reached a landmark agreement to privatize Midway Airport for $2.521 billion. The deal will net the city more th...

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