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White House To Hold Chicago Olympics Event On South Lawn

Chicago Tribune | Katherine Skiba | Posted 11.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Michelle Obama Olympics, White House Olympics, Mayor Daley, Chicago Olympics, Barack Obama Olympics, Barack Obama, Chicago 2016, 2016 Olympics, Olympics, Chicago News

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will welcome Mayor Richard Daley and Olympic athletes to the White House on Wednesday to promote ...

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Daley Blames Economy For His All-Time Low Approval Rating In New Poll

Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Olympics, Chicago Parking Meter Deal, Mayor Daley Poll, Mayor Daley Approval Rating, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

Mayor Richard Daley today said he's not surprised by his all-time low approval rating in a new Tribune poll, saying he believes it is a result of publ...

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Release of Police Documents Imminent

Jamie Kalven | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Bond v. Utreras, Government Secrecy, Mayor Daley, Mara Georges, Jody Weis, Joan Lefkow, Chicago Police Department, Government Transparency, Chicago Police Misconduct, Civil Rights, Chicago News
Jamie Kalven

The city believes its power to impose secrecy should be unlimited and beyond scrutiny, that it should be the sole arbiter of what is and is not public information.

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City Council Votes To Put Taxpayers On Hook For Olympics Cost Overruns

AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago City Council, Chicago Olympics, 2016 Olympics, 2016 Olympics Chicago, Chicago 2016, Chicago Olympic Bid, Olympics, Mayor Daley, Chicago Olympics Costs, Chicago Olympics Financial Guarrantee, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) -- Bring on Da Games. The City Council unanimously agreed Wednesday to take full financial responsibility if Chicago is awarded the 2016...

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Sun-Times Stands By Article That Riled Daley's Press Secretary

Chicago Sun-Times | ROSALIND ROSSI | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Jackie Heard, Chicago Sun-Times, Mayor Daley, Jacquelyn Heard, Jacquelyn Heard Drug House, Chicago News

After lashing out at Sun-Times coverage of a drug raid at a rental building she owns, trusted mayoral aide Jacquelyn Heard said Tuesday that she didn'...

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Daley Offering United Another $10M To Move To Willis Tower

Crain's Chicago Business | Thomas A. Corfman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Willis Tower, Willis Tower Tifs, United Airlines, Mayor Daley, Tifs, United Willis Tower, Chicago News

The Daley administration is coughing up an additional $10 million to entice the parent of United Airlines to move its operations center downtown from ...

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Why 'Trust Us' Doesn't Cut it for the Olympics

Matt Farmer | Posted 11.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Manny Flores, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Olympic Bid, Carrie Austin, Lori Healey, Mayor Daley, Chicago Olympics, Chicago Olympics Costs, Chicago Olympics Oversight, Ed Burke, Chicago 2016, Chicago News
Matt Farmer

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.

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Life as General Director of Chicago Opera Theater ...

Brian Dickie | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mies Van Der Rohe, Chicago College of the Performing Arts, Henry Fogel, Chicago Opera Theater, Mayor Daley, Millennium Park, Al Capone, Chicago Opera, Chicago News
Brian Dickie

... And there are days when it would be good to illustrate the varied stuff I have the pleasure of dealing with, enjoying, or whatever ... I had a go...

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Sadhu Johnston, Chicago's Top Green Official, Quietly Bolts To Vancouver

Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Green News, Sadhu Johnston, Green Chicago, Mayor Daley Environment, Mayor Daley Green, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

Mayor Daley has been saying for years that he wants to make Chicago the greenest city in the country, but his environmental record is decidedly mixed....

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Daley Considering Privatizing Snow Plowing

Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

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

Mayor Richard Daley's administration is considering how it handles one of its most sacred duties: plowing snow from the city's streets....

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Daley Press Secretary's Rental Property Used For Drug Dealing

Chicago Sun-Times | Frank Main | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Jackie Heard, Henry Bassett, Jacquelyn Heard, Jacquelyn Heard Drug House, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

Mayor Daley was flipping through a list of properties suspected of harboring gang and drug activity when he came across a familiar name. The homeowne...

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Daley Defends Closing Public Streets For Oprah

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Mag Mile, Oprah Show Party, Mayor Daley, Oprah, Oprah Chicago Party, Oprah 24th Season Premier, Oprah Kickoff Party, Chicago News

Mayor Daley this morning defended the city's decision to close down a congested choke of North Michigan Avenue next week to let talk show diva Oprah W...

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Alderman, Daley Pitch Conflicting Olympics Oversight Plans

Chicago Tribune | David Heinzmann and Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Manny Flores, Chicago Olympic Bid, Carrie Austin, Olympics, Mayor Daley, Chicago Olympics, Chicago Olympics Costs, Ed Burke, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

With little more than a month until the International Olympics Committee decides whether Chicago will get the 2016 Summer Games, aldermen are unveilin...

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What Happened in Switzerland (When We Met the IOC)

Tom Tresser | Posted 09.30.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Mayor Daley, 2016 Olympics, No Games Chicago, Lori Healy, Olympic Protests, Chicago 2016, Ioc, Chicago Olympic Bid, Chicago Olympics, Chicago Olympics Costs, Chicago News
Tom Tresser

'Why are you here?' the IOC representative asked. I explained that we are citizens who believe that hosting the Olympics would be a disaster for Chicago.

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Daley To Admit Parking Deal Got "Screwed Up," Spent Too Much Time On Olympics

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 09.25.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Olympics, Chicago, Mayor Daley, Chicago Parking Meters, Chicago Olympics, Richard Daley, Chicago Parking Meter Privatization, Chicago News

Mayor Daley will acknowledge tonight that his administration "totally screwed up" the transition to private control of the city's 36,000 parking meter...

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Daley Vastly Overestimating Economic Impact Of 2016 Games: Report

Crain's Chicago Business | John Pletz | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Olympics, Chicago Olympics Costs, Chicago Olympic Bid, Mayor Daley, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

Mayor Richard M. Daley's prediction that the 2016 Olympics would give Chicago's economy a $22.5-billion boost vastly overstates the likely benefits of...

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Chicago Clout: City Workers Turn Anti-Daley Grievances Into Song

Huffington Post | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Emery Joe Yost, Video, Chicago Clout, Daley Corruption, Chicago Corruption, Mayor Daley, Clout Meisters, Pat Mcdonough, Chicago News

A couple of city workers fed up with Mayor Daley and the rising cost of corruption have taken their anti-clout grievances to YouTube. The result is...

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Daley Heads To D.C. With His Hand Out

Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 09.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Federal Funds, Daley Washington, Chicago Budget, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

Mayor Richard M. Daley is in Washington, D.C., meeting with federal officials and, like Oliver Twist, he asked for one thing: more....

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Whose Fault is the CPS Budget Crisis?

Paras Bhayani | Posted 09.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Ron Huberman, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, Tom Geoghegan, Social Security, CPS Budget, Mayor Daley, Cps, Cps Pensions, Tifs, Chicago News
Paras Bhayani

If the federal government provided a higher social security payout funded by higher payroll taxes, CPS could actually devote attention to its work rather than worrying about how to pay for its retirees' pensions.

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What Happened To The Independent Aldermen?

NBC Chicago | Steve Rhodes | Posted 09.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Progressive Caucus, Manny Flores, Chicago City Council, Alderman Ricardo Munoz, Mayor Daley, Sandi Jackson, Independent Aldermen, Bob Fioretti, Chicago News

t seemed like the City Council might be growing a pair in the wake of Mayor Daley's parking meter mess and his exposed Olympic financial guarantees. ...

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Clouting Kids Into Public Magnet Schools? Mayor Daley Boasts of Sending His Kids to Private Schools

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 09.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Arne Duncan, Chicago Public Schools, Daley Public Schools, Daley Private Schools, Munoz Whitney Young, Mayor Daley Cps, Alderman Ricardo Munoz, Cps Clout, Mayor Daley, Cps Admissions Investigation, Chicago News
Carol Felsenthal

Leave it to Daley, the mayor of a large city with a failing school system, to bring up the fact that his own children did not attend the public schools in the city he leads.

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Daley's Fast Talk On Tax Hike

NBC Chicago | Steve Rhodes | Posted 09.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Tax Abatment, Chicago Tax Increase, Cps Property Taxes, Chicago Property Taxes, Mayor Daley, Mayor Daley Taxes, Chicago News

Mayor Daley has learned a new word, and he can't stop using it. The term: abatement. Apparently he finds this noun more pleasing than the two words i...

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Daley Gets Testy, Won't Discuss Olympics Insider's Land Deal

Chicago Tribune | Dan P. Blake | Posted 09.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Michael Scott, Mayor Daley, Chicago Olympics, Chicago Olympics Sites, Chicago 2016, Douglas Park Olympics, Chicago News

Mayor Richard Daley today declined to answer questions about a Tribune story on how a member of his Olympic bid team arranged to develop city-owned la...

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Chicago 2016 Bid Member Developing Land Adjacent To Planned Olympics Site

Chicago Tribune | Todd Lighty, David Heinzmann and Kathy Bergen | Posted 09.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Olympics, 2016 Olympics, Chicago 2016, Mayor Daley, Chicago Olympic Bid, Michael Scott, Douglas Park Olympics, Chicago News

A member of Mayor Richard Daley's team working to bring the Olympics to Chicago has quietly arranged to develop city-owned land near a park that would...

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Daley: Tax Break For United's Willis Tower Move Essential For Jobs

Crain's Chicago Business | Eddie Baeb | Posted 09.06.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Willis Tower, Willis Tower Tifs, United Airlines, Mayor Daley, Daley TIFs, Tifs, United Willis Tower, Chicago News

Mayor Richard M. Daley says the city's proposed $24-million subsidy to help bring 2,800 United Airlines employees downtown is warranted because of the...

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