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After Parking Meters, Five Other Public Assets Daley Could Sell

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Midway Airport Privatization, Midway Airport, Mayor Daley, Chicago Parking Meters, O'Hare, Chicago Parking Meter Privatization, Chicago Budget, Chicago Garbage, Privatization, Chicago Water System, Chicago Sewer System, Chicago News

After draining reserve funds generated by city asset sales, Mayor Daley has hitched Chicago's financial future to continuing the Great Chicago sell-of...

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City Garbage Crews, Pickups May Get Downsized

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Automated Garbage Trucks, Streets and Sanitation, Chicago Garbage, Chicago Trash Pickup, Chicago Garbage Collection, Chicago News

Chicagoans have grown accustomed to soup-to-nuts garbage collection services that would be the envy of many suburbs. But, those salad days may be comi...

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Chicago Has Seven Years Worth Of Landfill Space Available

Associated Press | Posted 12.26.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Epa, Chicago Garbage, Landfills, Chicago Landfill Space, Waste Disposal, Chicago Landfills, Illinois Landfills, Waste, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Garbage, Chicago News

State environmental officials say overall disposal capacity in Illinois is sufficient for the next 18 years. That's despite a 3.5 decline in space. ...

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New Truck Allowing For Deeper Garbage Cuts

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.30.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Laborers Union, Chicago Garbage, Chicago Streets and Sanitation, New Truck Chicago Garbage, Lou Phillips, Pat O'Connor, Richard Daley, Chicago Garbage Collection, Chicago News

Mayor Daley wants to shrink the size of 80 more garbage collection crews -- to one laborer on a truck instead of two. But he might not stop there. T...

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Who Controls Your Trash?

Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 11.14.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Garbage Collection, Chicago Garbage, Chicago Waste Management, Garbage, Chicago Dumpsters, Chicago Waste, Chicago News

It might strike you as an obscure policy dispute if not an absurd one, but an ongoing debate over who's going to get control of your dumpster is likel...

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