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Daley Sued Over Obama, Jarrett's Olympic Involvement

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Obama Chicago Olympics, Valerie Jarrett, Chicago Olympics, Obama Olympics, Mayor Daley, Judicial Watch, Chicago Olympics Lawsuit, Valerie Jarrett Ethics Waiver, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

A conservative watchdog group is suing Mayor Daley and the city for failing to turn over information about the Obama administration's involvement in C...

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Daley Administration To Push Judge To Remove Corruption Oversight

Fox Chicago | Anita Padilla | Posted 11.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Corruption, Mayor Daley Corruption, Mayor Daley, Chicago Patronage, Mara Georges, Chicago City Hiring, Shakman Decree, Chicago News

Mayor Daley's administration wants Chicago alderman to believe that political favors and corruption no longer exist at City Hall. ...

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Chicago Sued By Own Inspector General

NBC Chicago/Sun-Times | Carol Marin | Posted 11.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Inspector General, Mary E. Hodge, Mayor Daley, Mara Georges, David Hoffman, Chicago Law Department, Daley Sued, Chicago News

NBC5 and the Chicago Sun-Times have learned the city Inspector General's Office is taking the Daley administration to court after issuing a subpoena l...

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Fenger 'A Very Good School': Daley

Fox Chicago | Darlene Hill | Posted 10.30.2009 | Chicago

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"Fenger has a very good principal and it's a very good school" Mayor Richard Daley said Thursday at Orr Academy where he was principal for the day. ...

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Aldermen Blast Daley For Dipping Into Financial Reserves

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Aldermen, Daley Parking Meters, Daley Skyway, Mayor Daley Budget, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

Mayor Daley was accused Wednesday of mortgaging Chicago's future by draining reserves that were supposed to carry the city for decades to solve two sh...

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City Asking Police, Firefighters To Take Furloughs

Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick and John Byrne | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Mayor Daley Budget, Chicago Furlough Days, Police Furloughs, Chicago Fire Department, Mayor Daley, Chicago Budget, Chicago Police Department, Chicago News

Mayor Richard Daley and some aldermen suggested today that police officers and firefighters take off nearly five weeks without pay to cut city spendin...

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Daley Blames Houlihan For Rising Property Tax

Chicago Tribune | Bob Secter and Hal Dardick | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: James Houlihan, Daley Property Taxes, Jim Houlihan, Chicago Property Taxes, Houlihan Property Tax, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

Mayor Richard Daley on Tuesday tried to offer up a scapegoat for the puzzle of why property tax bills are soaring as home values are plummeting: Cook ...

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Daley Dips Into Parking Meter Funds To Offer Property Tax Grants

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Budget 2010, Chicago Parking Meters, Daley-Property-Taxes, Chicago Property Taxes, Daley Property Tax Relief, Mayor Daley, Property Taxes, Parking, Chicago News

Chicago homeowners squeezed by rising property tax bills could be in line for cash grants of up to $200 thanks to $35 million worth of property tax re...

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Back to Business as Usual

Michael Moreci | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Olympics, Economic Crisis, Chicago, Cta, Chicago Public Transportation, Chicago Election, Chicago Mayoral Race, Chicago Deficit, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

A month after the city was rebuffed in its Olympics bid, the financial hand wringing has returned. The smokescreen Daley spread over the city's economic disasters for the IOC has dissipated.

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A Letter From Concerned Citizens to Mayor Daley

Jim Peters | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: 2016 Olympics, Chicago Architecture, Bauhaus, Walter-Gropius, Mayor Daley, Michael Reese Hospital, South Side of Chicago, Chicago Development, Modernist Architecture, Chicago News

The disappointment over the loss of the 2016 Olympics should not prevent Chicagoans from realizing a great opportunity -- the redevelopment of the former Michael Reese Hospital Campus.

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City Turning Taxpayers Against Each Other

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Taxes, Chicago Tax Whistleblower, Tax Whistleblower Program, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

Would you be willing to rat out a business that's cheating Chicago on taxes in exchange for a share of back taxes recovered?...

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Red Light Camera Expansion Halted By Budget Cuts

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Red Light Cameras, Mayor Daley Budget, Chicago Budget Shortfall, Chicago Budget, Mayor Daley, Chicago Red Light Cameras, Chicago News

Chicago's worst budget crisis in modern history has put the brakes on plans to expand the city's Big Brother network of red-light cameras to more than...

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Old Enough to Know Better, Young Enough to Pretend: Can the Chicago News Cooperative Succeed?

Daniel Sinker | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Media, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Journalism, Chicago Reader, Old Media vs. New Media, Creative Commons, Chicago Politics, Chicago Olympics, Death of Newspapers, Wbez, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Budget, Mayor Daley, New York Times, Cnc, Chicago News Cooperative, Chicago News

If there was a better day to announce the News Cooperative, I can't think of it. After Mayor Daley's budget address, the two major papers ran the same cover: a 24-year-old kidnapping.

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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 Cutting Recycling Pickup To Once Every Three Weeks

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Recycling, Chicago 2010 Budget, Chicago Budget Cuts, Mayor Daley, Mayor Daley Budget, Chicago News

Chicago's citywide switch to curbside recycling would hit the brakes in some neighborhoods, while pickups would be less frequent in others, under cuts...

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New City Budget Pulling $370M From Parking Meter Deal To Help Plug $550M Hole

CBS 2 | Posted 10.21.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Venetian Night, Mayor Daley Budget, Chicago Budget, Mayor Daley, Chicago Budget Cuts, Chicago 2010 Budget, Chicago Parking Meter Deal, Chicago News

You won't be paying any new taxes, but you also won't get to enjoy Venetian night and other long-running city events anymore either, as Mayor Richard ...

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Venetian Night Could Fall Victim To Budget Crunch

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Mayor Daley Budget, Venetian Night, Chicago Budget, Mayor Daley, Venetian Night Chicago, Chicago 2010 Budget, Chicago News

Venetian Night -- Chicago's annual parade of illuminated boat floats that draws up to 500,000 people to the lakefront -- could be sunk, thanks to cost...

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Daley: City Too Broke To Fill All 591 Police Vacancies

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Police Vacancies, Chicago Police Shortage, Chicago Police, Chicago Police Department, Mayor Daley, Daley Police, Chicago Budget, Chicago News

After hiring only 46 Chicago Police officers all year, Mayor Daley acknowledged Monday that the slowdown would continue in 2010, dramatically impactin...

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Daley Plans 24 Unpaid Days For Thousands Of City Workers

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Mayor Daley Budget, Chicaog 2010 Budget, Chicago Budget, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

Mayor Daley said Monday he would eliminate 220 vacant city jobs, cancel cost-of living pay raises for 3,500 non-union employees and order those bureau...

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Lessons Learned From the Olympic Fiasco

Tom Tresser | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Mayor Daley, 2016 Olympics, No Games Chicago, Chicago 2016, Sears Tower, Todd Stroger, International Olympic Committee, Ioc, Chicago Budget, Cook County Board, Cook County Board President Race, Willis Tower Tifs, Tifs, Chicago Corruption, Chicago News

If citizens want to be protected from bad government and further rip-offs, we are going to have to rise to a new level of involvement. I have little hope that our elected representatives will truly represent us.

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Mike Tyson Meets With Daley About Youth Violence

Chicago Tribune | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago

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Former world champion Mike Tyson paid Mayor Richard Daley a visit today and the boxing heavyweight and political heavyweight talked about youth violen...

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Chicago Transit at a Crossroads

Aaron Renn | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Transit Authority, Public Transportation, Pace, Metra, Midway Airport, Urban Planning, Cta-Orange-Line, City Planning, Illinois Budget, Cta, Indianapolis, Rod Blagojevich, Mayor Daley, Global Cities, Rta, CTA Bus Tracker, El, Chicago News

The CTA doomsday budget, even if it doesn't come to pass, has done a great service by showing the city the inevitable future. Service has been trending downward for decades.

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Daley Promises No New Taxes, Fines Or Fees In 2010 Budget

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Taxes, Chicago 2010 Budget, Chicago Budget, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

Arguing that Chicagoans are "suffering" and can't stand to pay any more, Mayor Daley said Thursday he would hold the line all taxes, fines and fees in...

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City Scrapping Snow Plow Privatization Plan

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Snow Plow Privatization, Chicago Snow Plows, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

After a blizzard of aldermanic opposition and scant interest from private contractors, the Daley administration has scrapped plans to privatize one of...

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