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A Lesson for Those Who Would Lead America's Cities: Michael Scott Did Not Die in Vain

Rebecca Sive | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Birmingham, New Orleans, Urban Policy, Washington, Detroit, Los Angeles, Michael Scott, Eugene Sawyer, Carl Sandburg, Richard Daley, Miami, Harold Washington, Chicago News
Rebecca Sive

In this week of Harold Washington's death, 22 years ago, I can't help but think of Harold and Michael -- together. In this time of thanksgiving, what can we learn from two lives cut too short?

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Dan Hynes' Tax Plan Would Shield Illinois Legislature, Governor From Tax Hike and Other Campaign News

David Ormsby | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois Income Tax Increase, Bridget Gainer, Debbie Halvorson, United Republican Fund, Chicago News, Pat Quinn, CTA Fare Hike, Robin Kelly, Terry Peterson, Illinois Politics, Michelle Malkin, Richard Daley, Cta, Dan Hynes, Todd Connor, Julie Hamos, David Hoffman, 2010 Illinois Democratic Primary, Sara Feigenholtz, Jeff Smith, Chicago News
David Ormsby

If Hynes ultimately were to become governor and enact his plan, the entire Illinois governing class would be exempt from an Illinois income tax increase. Oops.

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Daley Fields Complaints At Public Budget Hearing

Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 09.26.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Richard Daley, Chicago News

Mayor Richard Daley fielded complaints about crime, the city's Olympics bid and the parking-meter controversy Tuesday night during a packed public hea...

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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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Obama At Odds With Chicago Mayor Over Picket Line

Chicago Sun-Times | Think Progress | Posted 07.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Picket Line, Joe Biden, Biden Picket Line, President Obama, Mayor Daley, Daley Obama, Richard Daley, Obama Picket Line, Chicago News

The Obama administration is boycotting a U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Providence, R.I., this weekend to avoid crossing picket lines and taking...

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Feds Scrutinizing Deal Between City And Mayor Daley's Nephew

Chicago Sun-Times | TIM NOVAK | Posted 06.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Federal Investigation, Daley Nephew, Chicago Pension Fund, Mayor Daley, Richard Daley, Chicago News

City pension officials have been hit with subpoenas from a federal grand jury trying to determine how they decided to invest $68 million with a start-...

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Green-Leaning Mayors: Newsom, Daley, Bloomberg And More

Grist | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Gavin Newsom, Michael Bloomberg, Environment, Green Politics, Richard Daley, Green News

Climate change is a global problem--but as of yet, there's no global solution. That's why mayors across the U.S. are taking action, from building gree...

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Daley's Candidate in the Illinois Fifth Congressional District Election: Feigenholtz?

David Ormsby | Posted 04.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Russ Stewart, John Fritchey, Rich MIller, Patrick O'Connor, Illinois 5th, Illinois Politics, Sara Feigenholtz, Richard Daley, Daley Feigenholtz, Rahm Emanuel Replacement, Illinois Fifth District Race, Illinois Special Election, Chicago News
David Ormsby

Why would Feigenholtz have the Mayor's favor? Because the others seem to have his disfavor.

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City Supervisor Indicted

Chicago Tribune | Todd Lighty | Posted 01.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Michael Reese Indicted, Chicago City Supervisor Indicted, Chicago Supervisor Bribery Conspiracy, Michael Reese, Chicago Corruption, Mayor Daley, Richard Daley, Chicago News

A Chicago city supervisor has been swept up in an ongoing criminal investigation of the Daley administration's building and zoning departments, accuse...

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Chicago Handgun Ban Survives First Challenge

Chicago Tribune | Carlos Sadovi and Hal Dardick | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Gun Control, National Rifle Association, Mayor Daley, Chicago Handgun Ban, Milton Shadur, Chicago Gun Ban, Richard Daley, Chicago Gun Laws, Nra, U.S. Supreme Court, Chicago News

Chicago won round one in its defense of the city's handgun ban, but Mayor Richard Daley said today he's looking at less sweeping gun control measures ...

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Daley Hosting Gun Conference

Chicago Tribune | Carlos Sadovi | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Daley Guns, Barbara Eason-Watkins, Daley Gun Conference, Arne Duncan, Arne Duncan Replacement, Mayor Daley, Richard Daley, Chicago Gun Laws, Guns, Chicago News

Mayor Richard Daley said today that Chicago will host a "gun conference" next month to look for ways to beef up gun laws and get guns off the streets....

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$86 Million Olympic Village Deal Approved

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.17.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Michael Reese Hospital Olympic Village, Chicago City Council, 2016 Olympics, Olympics, 2016 Olympics Chicago, Mayor Daley, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago Olympics, Chicago Olympic Village, Richard Daley, 2016 Olympics Bid, Edward Burke, Pat Ryan, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

Mayor Daley's plan to borrow $86 million to acquire Michael Reese Hospital property for a $1.1 billion Olympic Village sailed through a City Council W...

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Daley To Introduce Incentives For Disabled-Owned Businesses

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago City Council, Chicago Disabled Owned Business Incentives, Disabled Owned Businesses Chicago, Department of Procurement Services, Richard Daley, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

Businesses owned by people with disabilities would get an advantage on city contracts, thanks to an ordinance Mayor Daley plans to introduce at Wednes...

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Rubbing Your Eyes in Fantasy Land

Murray Fromson | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business

Read More: CC Sabathia, Sports, Richard Daley, Rod Blagojevich, Yankees, Barack Obama, Illinois, Baseball, Business News
Murray Fromson

CC Sabathia and all the other high-priced players and the teams that sign lucrative contracts ought to feel a sense of embarrassment for their insensitivity at a time when tens of thousands of Americans have lost their jobs and their homes.

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Alderman To Daley: Restore Snow Plow Money

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Midway Airport Privatization, Chicago Budget Shortfall, 38th Ward Chicago, Midway Airport, Chicago Budget, Mayor Daley, Tom Allen, Chicago Skyway, Richard Daley, Chicago Snow Plows, Chicago Parking Meter Privatization, Chicago Snow Removal, Chicago Snow Plow Cuts, Chicago News

Fed up with snow-covered side streets and ice-packed intersections, an influential alderman demanded Thursday that Mayor Daley set aside $1 million ap...

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Arne Duncan Touted For Top Education Job By Current Secretary

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Arne Duncan Education Secretary, Department of Education, Arne Duncan, Mayor Daley, Margaret Spellings, Obama's Cabinet, Obama Education Secretary, Richard Daley, Education Secretary, Chicago News

Chicago Schools CEO Arne Duncan is a "visionary" school leader who would make a "great choice" as the new U.S. Education Secretary, incumbent Secretar...

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Daley Names New Chief Of Staff

Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 01.10.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Daley Chief of Staff, Paul Volpe, Lori Healy, Daley Volpe, Mayor Daley, Bennett Johnson, Richard Daley Paul Volpe, Richard Daley, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

Mayor Richard Daley today named Paul Volpe his new chief of staff. Volpe, currently the city's chief financial officer, replaces Lori Healy, who is l...

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Daley Urges Blagojevich To 'Do The Right Thing,' But Doesn't Call For Resignation

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.10.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Blagojevich Daley, Rod Blagojevich, Dick Durbin, Daley Blagojevich Resign, Mayor Daley, Daley Blago, Blagojevich Indictment, Richard Daley, Daley Blagojevich, Video, Chicago News

Arguing that incriminating federal wiretaps of Gov. Blagojevich are "not light-hearted, windbag conversations, Mayor Daley on Wednesday urged the gove...

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Chicago Olympic Village Site Set

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Michael Reese Hospital Olympic Village, 2016 Olympics, 2016 Olympics Chicago, Mayor Daley, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago Olympic Village, Richard Daley, Medline Industries, Chicago 2016, Pat Ryan, Chicago News

Construction of a $1.1 billion Olympic Village will be moved to the campus of Michael Reese Hospital after all, now that the property owner has agreed...

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Daley In DC To Push For Bailout Funds

Crain's Chicago Business | Paul Merrion | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: City Mayors Federal Public Works Projects, Economic Stimulus Package, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Daley Pelosi, Richard Daley, Economy, Nancy Pelosi, Mayor Daley, Chicago News

Mayor Richard M. Daley and other big-city mayors met with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday morning to contend that cities should get their ow...

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CTA to Eject Rush-Hour Riders?

Mike Doyle | Posted 01.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Transit Authority, 2016 Olympics Chicago, CTA Continuous Riders, Chicago Homeless, Cta, Ron Huberman, Richard Daley, Homeless CTA Riders, Ed Shurna, Pat Ryan, Chicago News
Mike Doyle

The CTA remains adamant that its continuous-rider policy is not aimed at homeless people. But the hypocrisy behind the agency's policy is brutally evident.

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Parking Meters To Be Fed Sundays And Holidays Under Privatization Plan

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.03.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago City Council, Chicago Parking Rates, Chicago Parking Meter Hikes, Mayor Daley, Chicago Parking Meters, Danny Solis, Tom Tunney, Richard Daley, Chicago Parking Meter Privatization, Chicago Parking Tickets, Chicago Parking Meter Costs, Chicago News

Mayor Daley's $1.15 billion plan to privatize Chicago's 36,000 parking meters -- and sharply increase the rates motorists pay to feed them -- got ligh...

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President Obama Should Host a UNFCCC Climate Change Summit

Ben Carmichael | Posted 01.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Chicago Climate Exchange, John Kerry, Austin, Michael Bloomberg, Mayor Daley, Environment, Portland Oregon, Unfccc, Climate Change, Obama Climate Change, Poznan Climate Change Conference, Richard Daley, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Obama Administration, Obama Climate Policy, Obama White House, Obama Presidency, Barack Obama Environmental Policy, President Elect Obama, Oregon, Green News
Ben Carmichael

President-elect Obama has pledged that his administration will mark a "new chapter in America's leadership on climate change." The question is: What will open that first chapter?

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Bill Daley Quiet About Gubernatorial Run

The State-Journal Register | Bernard Schoenburg | Posted 12.21.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Dennis Hastert, Bill Daley 2010, 2010 Illinois Governor Race, Bill Daley, Bill Daley Governor, Miguel Del Valle, Bill Daley Nomination, Richard Daley, Jim Edgar, Chicago News

Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Bill Daley could become more of a fixture at the Statehouse if he makes a run for governor in 2010. But he wasn't sayi...

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Budget Cuts Hurt Police Department

Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago City Council, CPD Cuts 2009 City Budget, Cpd, Mayor Daley Budget, Chicago Budget, Chicago 2009 Budget Cuts, Police Cuts Chicago Budget, Chicago Police Department, Chicago City Council Budget Vote, Richard Daley, Daley 2009 Budget, Chicago News

The Chicago City Council is scheduled to vote on the 2009 budget later today. The proposal cuts seventeen million dollars from the police department's...

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