Chicago's City Council has a long track record of falling in lock-step with the mayor's agenda, but Rahm Emanuel's recently renegotiated city parking ...

In the city's ongoing efforts to put more lipstick on the pig that is Chicago's parking meter deal, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Monday City Hall had ...

Chicago knows from experience how partnerships can sour. Emanuel's Infrastructure Trust, if done right, could be a new model for rebuilding urban infrastructure. Done wrong, it'll be just another hand off of public assets to private control.

Mayor Emanuel wants us to trust him with the future of all of Chicago's public assets.

Katten Muchin Rosenman, a law firm that the city has paid more than $1.2 million for work on privatization deals and other matters since 2005, announc...

Better late than never? Despite the fact that Chicago's parking meter lease is now well into its third year, a protest against the deal is planned ...

Four thousand fewer teens will have gainful employment through the City of Chicago this summer, as federal stimulus dollars for a flagship city progra...

Could Chicago in fact get out of the parking meter deal? Possibly, though it's a long shot. But it's imperative that the next mayor at least take a run at it.

If Chicagoans weren't angry enough about the new $5 per hour meter rates downtown, they might be after watching one of the poor souls paying the steep...

Perhaps the biggest albatross hanging on the neck of Chicago's outgoing Mayor Richard M. Daley is the controversial deal he negotiated to privatize th...

It's almost that time of the year again. No, not Christmas or New Year's, but parking meter rate increase season. It was three years ago this month w...

It's one thing for motorists to vandalize Chicago parking meters to vent their anger over the steep schedule of rate hikes tied to the 75-year, $1.15 ...

It was May of 2009. That's when Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan opened a consumer fraud investigation into the Chicago parking meter lease d...

With Mayor Daley's retirement imminent, many in Chicago -- including a fair number of his prospective heirs -- have praised the accomplishments of his...

Thanks to revenue largely generated in the city's outlying neighborhoods, cash flow to the private company running the city's parking meter system is ...

It may be the dog days of summer, but one local state senate campaign is taking no holiday. Democratic state senate candidate John Mulroe is already launching his first political attack of the general election.

Chicago's parking meter mess was a headache for motorists and a political pain for Mayor Daley, but it's been a boon to the paychecks of city employee...

Alderman Leslie Hairston (5th) was out of her Chicago office Thursday. Ms. Hairston decided to spend the day in, of all places, Pittsburgh. The ...

Thanks for nothing Mayor Daley. Or, at least next to nothing. I'm sure you and your administration think this alleged five minute grace period f...

Motorists who park illegally on Chicago streets would get more than tickets on their windshields, if an influential alderman has her way. They'd ge...

Citizens in other cities may want to take note of the recent news about parking around here because it's increasingly clear that the architects of Chi...

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says without money from the controversial lease of the city's parking meters, there'd be no way to balance the 2010 budget...