Mayor Daley's proposal to tap $35 million of Chicago's parking meter reserve funds to provide modest property tax relief for some city homeowners pass...
Chicago Public Radio | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago
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...
Matt Farmer | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Board of Education's reimbursement process has been shrouded in mystery ever since Michael Scott used his board credit card to take his wife to Copenhagen for the Olympic bash.
Fox Chicago | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Richard Daley was hoping for a quick approval of the plan, but obviously that's not going to happen. ...
Johnathon Briggs | Posted 11.23.2009 | Chicago
Some essential city services are too important to do without. Alarmingly, Mayor Daley's 2010 budget plan calls for a $2.1 million funding reduction (6.7% cut) for public health.
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 11.23.2009 | Chicago
Joe Ferguson is the eldest son of a working-class single mom and a father he never knew who survived that rejection -- and the mean streets of Boston ...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Daley's decision to blame the media for Oprah Winfrey's career-altering choice to pull the plug on her syndicated talk show after her 25th seaso...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Daley lit into a reporter Wednesday for asking whether the death of his longtime friend Michael Scott will affect the mayor's political career. ...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
The Cook County Medical Examiner said today that there was "no evidence" the death of Chicago school board president trusted Daley ally Michael Scott ...
Paras Bhayani | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago
Getting unions to prioritize compensation and not the strictures that constrain schools would require a tectonic shift in their priorities, but precedent for such reformed advocacy does exist.
Matt Farmer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
CPS CEO Ron Huberman knows there is very little racial or economic diversity in our public schools. There is also very little Huberman and his team can do about that.
Chicago Tribune | Michael Hawthorne | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Richard Daley says any part of city government is up for grabs if the price is right. But if he is tempted to dangle Chicago's vast water syste...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.13.2009 | Chicago
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...
Fox Chicago | Anita Padilla | Posted 11.13.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Daley's administration wants Chicago alderman to believe that political favors and corruption no longer exist at City Hall. ...
NBC Chicago/Sun-Times | Carol Marin | Posted 11.04.2009 | Chicago
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...
Fox Chicago | Darlene Hill | Posted 10.30.2009 | Chicago
"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. ...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick and John Byrne | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Richard Daley and some aldermen suggested today that police officers and firefighters take off nearly five weeks without pay to cut city spendin...
Chicago Tribune | Bob Secter and Hal Dardick | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago
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 ...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago
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...
Michael Moreci | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago
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.
Jim Peters | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago
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.
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago
Would you be willing to rat out a business that's cheating Chicago on taxes in exchange for a share of back taxes recovered?...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago
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...
Daniel Sinker | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago
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.
Chicago Sun-Times | KARA SPAK | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago