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Daley Cancels "Non-Essentials": What Will be Lost in Translation?

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 04.04.2009 | Chicago

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Esther J. Cepeda

Is the City really saying that guides for finding affordable housing, emergency services and getting legal help in other languages are not necessary to service our internationally-populated town?

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City Signs $5M PR Contract Despite Budget Crunch

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 04.03.2009 | Chicago

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The Daley administration has signed another $5 million public relations contract -- bringing the citywide total to 11 firms and $55 million -- to augm...

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Daley Going Directly To Feds For Funds, Bypassing Springfield

Associated Press | Posted 02.07.2009 | Chicago

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Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says he will make an end-run around state government when it comes to seeking the city's share of the economic stimulus pl...

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Broke City: Revenues $31 Million Below Expectations (WATCH)

Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 02.02.2009 | Chicago

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City government took in tens of millions of dollars less in 2008 than it predicted just a few months ago, which will force further cost-saving measure...

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Alderman To Daley: Restore Snow Plow Money

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.12.2009 | Chicago

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Fed up with snow-covered side streets and ice-packed intersections, an influential alderman demanded Thursday that Mayor Daley set aside $1 million ap...

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City Budget Director Unexpectedly Resigns

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.05.2009 | Chicago

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Mayor Daley's $163,656-a-year budget director abruptly resigned Thursday, leaving a giant void as Chicago struggles to survive its worst financial cri...

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City Privatizing Parking Meters

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.01.2009 | Chicago

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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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Higher Vendor Fees Could Kill Maxwell Street Market

Chicago Sun-Times | Mary Houlihan | Posted 12.25.2008 | Chicago

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Cesar Delgado has been working at his family's booth at the Maxwell Street Market selling tools and hardware since he was 8. He's seen one big change...

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How The New Budget Hits Drivers

Red Eye | Leonor Vivanco | Posted 12.21.2008 | Chicago

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Higher taxes Parking costs have risen nationwide for the fifth year in a row--2.8 percent for monthly rates and 4.3 percent for daily rates--according...

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Budget Cuts Hurt Police Department

Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

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The Chicago City Council is scheduled to vote on the 2009 budget later today. The proposal cuts seventeen million dollars from the police department's...

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City Council Voting On Daley's Budget

Chicago Tribune | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

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The Chicago City Council is scheduled to vote today on Mayor Richard Daley's 2009 budget proposal, which is designed to address what he called the wo...

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Alderman Tries To Cut Inspector General Out Of City Budget

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 12.18.2008 | Chicago

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Ald. Bernard Stone (50th) struck out Monday in his attempt to write Inspector General David Hoffman out of the city budget in retaliation for an absen...

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CEOs Warn Of Huge Layoffs: Daley

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 12.13.2008 | Chicago

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Mayor Daley said Wednesday he's been warned by a parade of corporate CEOs that a blizzard of job cuts are about to bury the souring Chicago economy. ...

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City Looks To Lay Off 29 At Airports

Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 12.11.2008 | Chicago

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Mayor Richard Daley's administration plans to eliminate the jobs of more than two dozen people who translate and answer questions for international vi...

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Daley's Budget Approved After Council Rebellion Quelled

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 12.11.2008 | Chicago

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Mayor Daley's tough times 2009 budget -- precariously balanced with 929 layoffs, slow police hiring and $52.5 million worth of taxes, fines and fees -...

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TIF Districts Costing City Over $550M: Study

Chicago Reader | Ben Joravsky | Posted 11.29.2008 | Chicago

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Cook County Clerk David Orr's annual TIF report is due out tomorrow, and the news is all bleak. On the one hand, the city's tax increment financing d...

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Blues And Jazz Fests Losing A Day

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago

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Blues Fest and Jazz Fest, two of the city's most popular outdoor music festivals, will be reduced from four days to three and feature fewer stages bec...

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Library Fines May Double

Chicago Public Radio | Tony Arnold | Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago

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Budget hearings continue this morning as Chicago aldermen try to find ways to make up a $469-million deficit. One of the suggestions for bringing in ...

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Daley Defends Budget Cuts

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.21.2008 | Chicago

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Ignoring sniping from all sides, Mayor Daley said today he's not about to soften the cuts in his tough-times 2009 budget because there's no money to p...

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City Council Takes Issue With Daley's Budget

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago

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Mayor Daley's plan to slow police hiring, shrink the size of city garbage crews and lay off 929 employees by cutting basic housekeeping services came ...

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Chicago Budget Unveiled (WATCH)

CBS 2 | Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago

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Mayor Daley unveiled his city budget proposal Wednesday. Watch footage from the announcement: ...

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Chicago Police Department Eliminating Key Position

Chicago Sun-Times | Frank Main and Fran Spielman | Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago

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The Chicago Police Department will undergo a historic makeover with the elimination of a key position --first deputy superintendent, the person who tr...

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Daley Announces Budget: 900-Plus Layoffs, Higher Taxes

AP | Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago

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Mayor Richard Daley has announced a pared down budget for the city of Chicago that looks to cover a $469 million shortfall. And the mayor told city l...

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Daley Shutting Down City Government

Posted 11.14.2008 | Chicago

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Mayor Daley today ordered a "partial shutdown" of city government for three days this year and three more days in 2009 to help solve Chicago's worst ...

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Financial Crisis Squeezing Civic Budgets

Crain's Chicago Business | Monée Fields-White and Mike Colias | Posted 11.13.2008 | Chicago

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Local governments are bracing for deeper budget shortfalls as the financial crisis hammers everything from sales tax revenue to pension funds. The st...

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