Mayor Richard Daley was hoping for a quick approval of the plan, but obviously that's not going to happen. ...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment
Beyoncé's I Am...Yours is a satisfying decade-and-then-some retrospective that reveals the artist's interesting back story with a personal warmth not always emphasized by our current cast of pop stars.
Chicago Tribune | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago
As City Hall struggles to pay for basic services, a stealth budget account worth millions has allowed Chicago aldermen to put family members, campaign...
Matt Farmer | Posted 11.08.2009 | Chicago
The mayor who gave us the hired truck scandal, the parking meter debacle and the middle-of-the-night destruction of Meigs Field is asking taxpayers to take a great leap of faith with this Olympic venture.
Chicago Sun-Times | CHRIS FUSCO and TIM NOVAK | Posted 11.08.2009 | Chicago
For years, the single railroad track south of Curie Metro High School on the Southwest Side had been a hangout for teens and a cut-through for commute...
Chicago Tribune | David Heinzmann and Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago
With little more than a month until the International Olympics Committee decides whether Chicago will get the 2016 Summer Games, aldermen are unveilin...
Chicago Sun-Times | TIM NOVAK AND CHRIS FUSCO | Posted 08.06.2009 | Chicago
Three years ago, City Hall approved giving $5.3 million in taxpayer funding to a labor organization so it could buy land from a client of Ald. Edward ...
Chicago Sun-Times | CHRIS FUSCO, TIM NOVAK AND FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 07.30.2009 | Chicago
Ald. Edward M. Burke wrote a letter in his official capacity that helped a client of his law firm win City Council approval to develop a blighted stre...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 07.05.2009 | Chicago
Motorists nabbed by Chicago's Big Brother network of red-light cameras already get slapped with $100 fines. If the City Council's most powerful alderm...
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 06.11.2009 | Chicago
The city that blazed a consumer protection trail by banning phosphates would become the first in the nation to ban baby bottles and cups containing th...
AP | Posted 05.29.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- A member of the Chicago City Council is attempting to use a 118-year-old contract to increase the number of free admission days at the...
AP | Posted 05.21.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) - Members of the Chicago City Council are urging the city's park district to repeal a 50 percent increase in museum admission fees. Last...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 04.18.2009 | Chicago
Chicago would cut off the free water spigot and other public subsidies to museums that charge more than $10 for admission, under a measure proposed We...
Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 04.16.2009 | Chicago
One of Daley's most powerful allies suggests that the mayor could have nipped the council's foie gras passion before it ever bloomed into a target of ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago
A controversial ordinance requiring city pet owners to spay or neuter their cats and dogs was postponed today by a joint City Council committee....
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 04.09.2009 | Chicago
After adding tamer language to appease opponents, the City Council's most powerful aldermen said Monday he has the votes to require Chicago's dog and ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.08.2008 | Chicago
Motorists who send text messages or surf the Internet while driving would face stiff fines -- ranging from $75 to $200 -- under a crackdown advanced b...
Ari Bendersky | Posted 10.13.2008 | Chicago
Ed Burke's proposed law sounds like a great idea. But just like the hands-free law that's supposedly in effect in Chicago, this new law will, sadly, most likely get ignored as well.
Fox Chicago | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago