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Updating Incorporation Transparency Laws

Raymond Baker | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

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Raymond Baker

It is time to update our anachronistic and unsafe laws of incorporation and strike back at criminals that for too long have been able to use our financial system for their game to our own detriment.

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Daley Getting Angry At Parking Meter Company

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago

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Mayor Daley said today that he is losing confidence in the company hired to run the city's parking meters following the revelation of more problems wi...

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City Council Holding Parking Meter Deal Hearings

Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 08.02.2009 | Chicago

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Aldermen who rushed to approve Mayor Richard Daley's controversial lease of the city's parking meter system today will hold a hearing to examine the d...

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City Council Rips Parking Meter Company: 'You Took The Money Of At Least 5,800 Chicagoans'

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Chicago

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Five months after privatizing Chicago parking meters with only five dissenting votes, the City Council took the contractor to the woodshed today amid ...

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Parking Meter Lessee Has 'Substantially Improved': City

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 06.15.2009 | Chicago

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The city claims there were only 150 meters reported as broken or otherwise inoperable-- less than 1% of all meters.

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Parking Ticket Relief: City Halting Meter Firm's Ticket Writing After 'Unacceptable' Performance

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.01.2009 | Chicago

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A private contractor that paid $1.15 billion to lease Chicago's 36,000 parking meters agreed Tuesday to delay price hikes in some areas and stop writi...

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Has The Parking Meter Revolt Begun?

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 04.24.2009 | Chicago

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As teams canvas the city changing meters to their new, much higher rates, another movement seems to be blossoming in reaction to these changes.

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Meter Rate Changes Behind Schedule

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago

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Confusion seems to be high, and it's not limited to drivers. One reader reported being ticketed for an expired meter though it still had the Monday-Saturday decals on its head.

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Chicago's New Parking Meter Reality: What You Need To Know

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago

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All of Chicago's parking meters are now officially under the control of Chicago Parking Meter LLC for the next 75 years. What does that mean for people driving and parking on the streets of Chicago? Here's the lowdown.

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Parking Meter Deal Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Ouch

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 03.15.2009 | Chicago

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After a meter is changed under this new deal, they must be fed 365 days a year. No Sundays off. No parking meter holidays.

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Parking Meter Lease Deal Still Not Finalized

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 02.15.2009 | Chicago

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It doesn't seem a stretch to think that it will not be until late March or even April before all the meter rates have been changed.

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Why I Hate the Chicago Parking Meter Lease Deal

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago

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While most members of the city council were dislocating their shoulders patting themselves on the back for not raising taxes, the truth is that they did.

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Parking Meter Deal Proves Daley Hates Drivers

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 01.03.2009 | Chicago

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These rate increases will most profoundly affect the people who can least afford them--the poor and lower middle class.

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Parking Meter Rates To Quadruple

Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 01.02.2009 | Chicago

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Rates for most city parking meters will increase to $1 an hour in the coming months as a result of Mayor Richard Daley's deal to lease the spots for ...

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