Danny Solis

Rahm Tells Polluting Coal Plants To Clean Up Their Act

Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Crawford Generating Station, Coal Power, Fisk Coal Plant, Fisk Generating Station, Chicago Coal Plants, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Clean Power, Midwest Generation, Clean Energy, Danny Solis, Chicago Clean Power Ordinance, Chicago News

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has put Chicago's two coal power plants on warning: Either present a plan to clean up their pollution or risk being shut down by th...

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Ward Remap Battle Wages On As Latino Caucus Files Proposal

Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Chicago Ward Remap 2011, Chicago City Council, Video, Chicago Ward Remap, Richard Mell, Rahm Emanuel, Danny Solis, Joe Moreno, Chicago Aldermen, Chicago News

The Chicago City Council failed on Thursday, after weeks of increasingly tense meetings, to arrive at a city ward remap plan that was able to gain the...

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Can Decriminalizing Marijuana Help Cash-Strapped Chicago?

Posted 01.02.2012

Updated with Mayor Emanuel's comments When Mayor Rahm Emanuel took over, he immediately made it quite clear that he would do whatever it takes to g...

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Chicago, More Mexicans Than Veracruz

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: 2010 Census, Census, Latino-Politics, Juan Rangel, Redistricting, Mexican-Americans, Gerrymandering, United Neighborhood Organization, Chicago Suburbs, Rahm Emanuel, Cook County Politics, Chicago, Chicago Latinos, Danny Solis, Cook County, Latino Voices News

CHICAGO -- The City of Chicago has more Mexicans than Veracruz and more Puerto Ricans than Arecibo. But despite these huge urban numbers, Latinos in t...

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PHOTOS: Students Protest Pilsen Polluters As EPA Condemns Air Quality

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Pilsen Pollution, Fisk Generating Station, Pilsen, H. Kramer, Chicago, Clean Power Ordinance, Perro, Illinois, Danny Solis, Chicago Pollution, Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization, Chicago News

As spiking levels of lead and other pollutants choke the air in a residential community on Chicago's Near Southwest Side, residents continue to press ...

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Anti-Coal Activists Arrested After Storm Forces Them Off Smokestack

Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Clean Power Ordinance, Greenpeace Smokestack, Danny Solis, Greenpeace Chicago Coal, Greenpeace, Greenpeace Fisk Smokestack, Crawford Generating Station, Greenpeace Fisk, Fisk Generating Station, Chicago Coal Plants, Chicago, Edison International, Illinois, Chicago Clean Power Ordinance, Slidepollajax, Chicago Coal, Chicago News

UPDATE: The Chicago Sun-Times reports Wednesday morning that activists who had climbed the smokestack of the Fisk Generating Station have come down...

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Judge Approves Controversial Hot Dog Stand In Pilsen

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Danny Solis, Chicago Restaurants, Pilsen Chicago, Chicago Hot Dogs, Hot Dogs, Maxwell Street Polish, Maxwell Street Sausage, Chicago News

For nearly three years, East Pilsen neighbors have battled to keep what they consider a rather unsavory business from the corner of 18th and Halsted. ...

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Will Chicago Aldermen Make Clean Energy History or Disappear Into Big Coal's Shadow Tomorrow?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Dirty Coal, Clean Power Chicago, Pilsen, Fisk, Alderman Joe Moore, Eco-Justice Collaborative, Mayor Daley, James Hansen, Danny Solis, Greenpeace, Coal, Coal-Fired Plants, Clean Power Ordinance, Chicago News

Last week's fatal coal train wreck in Iowa was a tragic reminder of the stunning human and environmental cost of coal burning in the Windy City. That could all change on Thursday, April 21st.

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Grassroots and Clean Air in Pilsen

Cali Slaughter | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Perez Elementary School, Low-Income Neighborhoods, Lead Poisoning, Fisk Coal Plant, Southwest Side, Brad Frost, Pilsen, H. Kramer, Epa, Chicago, Danny Solis, P.E.R.R.O., Benito-Juarez-Community-Academy, Clean Air Act, Clean Power Ordinance, Chicago News

What happens when exposure to lead emanates from a non-isolatable source, when it saturates your neighborhood through our most precious and fundamental compound -- the air we breathe?

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Industrial Corridor In Pilsen Becoming Cutting-Edge 'Green Street'

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Streetscaping, Sustainable Design, Pilsen, Urban Planning, Chicago, Sustainability, Green Street, Danny Solis, Urban Design, Illinois, Cermak Blue Island Streetscaping, Chicago News

Heading west from the Dan Ryan Expressway on the near South Side of Chicago, Cermak Road is a wide, industrial street, lined on its south side with wa...

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Morfin: a Progressive Tug

Cali Slaughter | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Lead, Progressive, Pilsen, Fisk Coal Plant, Chicago, Clean Power Ordinance, Temoc Morfin, Danny Solis, Campaign, Run-Off, Perez Elementary School, 25th Ward, Politics News

Beyond the hard results, countless factors enter into the electoral process to create lasting change in the way politics are conducted.

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Incumbents Swept Out In Tumultuous Aldermanic Runoffs

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Willie Cochran, Berny Stone, Freddrenna Lyle, Chicago, Debra Silverstein, Illinois, Danny Solis, Chicago Aldermanic Runoffs, James Cappleman, Roderick Sawyer, Chicago News

It was a frantic night Tuesday, with fourteen aldermanic seats up for grabs in the runoff election. Races around the city were incredibly close, and w...

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Candidate Takes Money From Big Polluters

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Pilsen Pollution, 25th Ward, Fisk Generating Station, Cuahutemoc Morfin, Pilsen, H. Kramer, Chicago, Danny Solis, Illinois, Chicago Aldermanic Runoffs, 25th Ward Alderman, H. Kramer Solis, Chicago News

UPDATE: In response to Friday's Tribune story, Alderman Solis announced Monday that he would push for a new ordinance regulating lead emissions at ...

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Getting Ugly In The 25th: Solis Camp Goes Negative With Mailers

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: 25th Ward, Temoc Morfin, Cuahutemoc Morfin, Solis Mailers, 25th Ward Mailers, Chicago, Illinois, Danny Solis, Chicago Aldermanic Runoffs, Chicago News

Alderman Danny Solis was less than 100 votes away from sitting pretty. In 2007, he was able to win re-election to his 25th Ward seat without a runo...

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Ald. Solis LGBT Event Becomes Heated When Morfin Supporters Show Up

Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Danny Solis Lgbt, Chicago Politics, Temoc Morfin, Lgbt Chicago, Danny Solis, Chicago Elections, Chicago Runoffs, Chicago Aldermen, Chicago News

By Andrew Davis, courtesy of the Windy City Times The food was hot--but the atmosphere at a March 30 LGBT event hosted by 25th Ward Ald. Daniel S...

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After Mayoral Run, Miguel Del Valle Wades Back Into Elections

The Huffington Post | Will Guzzardi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Del Valle Endorsement, 25th Ward, For a Better Chicago, Cuahutemoc Morfin, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago, Illinois, Danny Solis, Miguel Del Valle, Del Valle Morfin, Chicago News

Like everyone whose last name didn't start with an "E," Miguel del Valle's candidacy for Chicago mayor always had a long-shot feel to it. The self-sty...

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The Runoffs: Under Pressure, An Alderman Changes Course On Coal

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 25th Ward, Fisk Generating Station, Cuahutemoc Morfin, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago, Illinois, Danny Solis, Chicago Clean Power Ordinance, Coal, Chicago News

The smokestack of the Fisk Generating Station in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood punctuates a long stretch of Cermak Road, belching grey smoke into the ...

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Waiting for Library-Man

Matt Farmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whittier-Elementary-School, Education, Waiting for Superman, Chicago Public Schools, Mayor Daley, Chicago, Danny Solis, Miguel Del Valle, Rahm Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel Chicago Mayor, Chicago Sit-In, Chicago News

The Whittier moms aren't "Waiting for Superman." They're just fighting for basic things that the Chicago Public School system manages to provide to my daughter and her friends.

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UPDATE: Aldermen Order CPS To Turn Heat Back On For Pilsen Sit-In

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whittier Sit-In, Chicago City Council, Chicago, Illinois, Danny Solis, Ed Burke, Whittier Elementary School, Pilsen Sit-In, Chicago News

The Chicago City Council is intervening in a long-running standoff between schools and parents at Pilsen's Whittier Elementary. An order unanimously ...

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Chicago Wal-Mart: Unions Reach Deal, Passage Expected

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dennis Gannon, Chicago City Council, Danny Solis, Chicago Federation of Labor, Wal-Mart, Chicago Wal-Mart, Chicago, Chicago News

At a press conference this morning, the Chicago Federation of Labor announced its support for a Wal-Mart superstore on the South Side, after reaching ...

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Chicago Aldermen Compare Arizona Immigration Law To Nazi Germany, Vietnam War

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Aldermen, Immigration Reform, Chicago Arizona Boycott, Arizona Immigration, Chicago City Council, Jim Balcer, Danny Solis, Arizona Business Ban, Arizona Immigration Law, Arizona Boycott, Nazi References, Chicago News

Arizona's controversial new(ish) immigration law has prompted protests, boycotts and even copycat bills throughout the country. And this week during a...

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Chicago Wal-Mart Vote Delayed Again

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Danny Solis, Zoning Committee, Chicago Federation of Labor, Wal-Mart, Chicago City Council, Chicago Wal-Mart, Chicago, Chicago News

The fate of a new Chicago Wal-Mart is still hanging in the balance, as the City Council's Zoning Committee once again postponed a vote on the project....

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Chicago Aldermen Criticize Obama For Dragging Feet On Immigration Reform

Chicago Current | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Immigration, City Council, Chicago Aldermen, Immigration Reform, Danny Solis, Barack Obama, Chicago City Council, Chicago News

Chicago alderman criticized the Obama administration today for dragging its feet on immigration reform. Alderman Danny Solis (25th) introduced a re...

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2007 Aldermanic Race Could Be Overturned, Decision In Court's Hands

Chi-Town Daily News | SAMANTHA LISS AND ADRIAN G. URIBARRI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ambrosio Medrano, 25th Ward Alderman, Danny Solis, Cuahutemoc Morfin, Chicago News

A federal appeals court is weighing whether to overturn a 2007 alderman's race, and the decision could force another election for Chicago's 25th Ward ...

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Parking Meters To Be Fed Sundays And Holidays Under Privatization Plan

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago City Council, Chicago Parking Rates, Chicago Parking Meter Hikes, Mayor Daley, Chicago Parking Meters, Danny Solis, Tom Tunney, Richard Daley, Chicago Parking Meter Privatization, Chicago Parking Tickets, Chicago Parking Meter Costs, Chicago News

Mayor Daley's $1.15 billion plan to privatize Chicago's 36,000 parking meters -- and sharply increase the rates motorists pay to feed them -- got ligh...

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