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New Truck Allowing For Deeper Garbage Cuts

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.30.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Laborers Union, Chicago Garbage, Chicago Streets and Sanitation, New Truck Chicago Garbage, Lou Phillips, Pat O'Connor, Richard Daley, Chicago Garbage Collection, Chicago News

Mayor Daley wants to shrink the size of 80 more garbage collection crews -- to one laborer on a truck instead of two. But he might not stop there. T...

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TIF Districts Costing City Over $550M: Study

Chicago Reader | Ben Joravsky | Posted 11.29.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Taxes, TIF, Chicago Budget Shortfall, Richard Daley, Chicago Budget, Chicago Property Taxes, David Orr, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

Cook County Clerk David Orr's annual TIF report is due out tomorrow, and the news is all bleak. On the one hand, the city's tax increment financing d...

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Manicures And Vegan Food: Coming Soon To Chicago's Airports?

Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Vegan Food Chicago, Nuts on Clark, Airport Manicures, Richard Rodriguez, Chicago Airports, Chicago Budget Shortfall, Garrett Popcorn Shop, Midway Airport, O'Hare Airport, Richard Daley, Chicago News

Richard Rodriguez would like hungry passengers to have more choices of ethnic foods to buy while traveling through Chicago's airports. As the city's ...

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Baxter Donates Millions To Public Schools

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.23.2008 | Chicago

Read More: IIT, Illinois Institute of Technology, Baxter Healthcare, Chicago Public Schools, Cps, Lindblom Math & Science Academy, Science@Work, Richard Daley, Baxter International, Chicago News

Mayor Daley's goal of making science fun for Chicago Public School students -- and improving historically dismal science test scores -- got a $5 milli...

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Daley Defends Budget Cuts

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.21.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Jobs, Chicago Budget Deficit, Chicago Budget Shortfall, Richard Daley, Chicago Budget, Chicago Economy, Chicago News

Ignoring sniping from all sides, Mayor Daley said today he's not about to soften the cuts in his tough-times 2009 budget because there's no money to p...

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Daley Rips Property Tax Plan

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.21.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Politics, James Houlihan, Tifs, Cook County Assessor, Cook County, Richard Daley, Chicago Property Taxes, Chicago News

Mayor Daley today denounced as a "political stunt" Assessor Jim Houlihan's plan to siphon money away from Chicago's tax-increment-financing (TIF) dist...

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How To Avoid The Boot

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.21.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Boot, Chicago Department of Revenue, 42nd Ward Chicago, 41st Ward Chicago, Richard Daley, Chicago Parking Violations, Chicago News

More than 169,000 parking tickets were issued during the first eight months of this year in the 42nd Ward, which includes Chicago's downtown and Gold ...

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City Council Takes Issue With Daley's Budget

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago City Council, Chicago Budget Shortfall, Ginger Rugai, Richard Daley, Chicago Aldermen, Chicago Budget, Chicago News

Mayor Daley's plan to slow police hiring, shrink the size of city garbage crews and lay off 929 employees by cutting basic housekeeping services came ...

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Why Burnham Still Matters To Chicago

Chicago Tribune | Patrick T. Reardon | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Lee Bey, Burnham Plan of Chicago, Richard Daley, Chicago Central Area Committee, Chicago Humanities Festival, Daniel Burnham, Chicago News

Daniel Burnham's exhortation "Make no little plans" doesn't appear in his Plan of Chicago, but that 1909 document, called the beginning of modern urba...

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Privatizing Midway: Why In This Economy?

Chicago Reader | Ben Joravsky | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, Midway Airport Privatization, Midway Airport Sale, Richard Daley, Midway Aiport Deal, Midway Airport, Daley Midway Lease, Chicago News

Midway Airport is arguably one of the city of Chicago's better-run operations, offering relatively affordable flights out of a facility that's clean, ...

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Protest Planned Over Police Assault Rifles

Chi-Town Daily News | Peter Sachs | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, Jody Weis, Assault Rifles Chicago Police, Chicago Police Department, Richard Daley, Chicago Police Rifles, Cpd, Jody P. Weis, Chicago News

A group opposed to the Chicago Police Department's plan to arm street cops with M4 semiautomatic assault rifles is planning to get their point across ...

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Daley Announces Budget: 900-Plus Layoffs, Higher Taxes

AP | Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Budget Shortfall, Mayor Daley Budget, Chicago Layoffs, Chicago Deficit, Chicago Budget, Mayor Daley, Chicago Budget Deficit, Richard Daley, Chicago City Budget, Chicago News

Mayor Richard Daley has announced a pared down budget for the city of Chicago that looks to cover a $469 million shortfall. And the mayor told city l...

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Daley Shutting Down City Government

Posted 11.14.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Chicago Budget Shortfall, Chicago Budget, Mayor Daley, Chicago Government Shutdown, Chicago Budget Deficit, Budget Deficit Chicago, Daley City Shutdown, Richard Daley, Chicago City Shutdown, Chicago News

Mayor Daley today ordered a "partial shutdown" of city government for three days this year and three more days in 2009 to help solve Chicago's worst ...

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The CTA Fare HIke: What It Means For Riders

CTA Tattler | Posted 11.14.2008 | Chicago

Read More: CTA Fare Increase, Richard Daley, CTA Fare Hike, Chicago Card, Chicago News

Unless you were hiding under a rock for the last 24 hours and just came up for air at this Internet address, you heard about the proposed CTA fare inc...

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Why Property Taxes Rise Even As Home Values Plunge

Chicago Reader | Ben Joravsky | Posted 11.09.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Governor Rod Blagojevich, Chicago City Council, Chicago Taxes, Chicago Home Values, Todd Stroger, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Chicago Real Estate, Emil Jones, Rod Blagojevich, Chicago Home Prices, Michael Madigan, James Houlihan, Chicago Housing, Chicago Property Taxes, Richard Daley, Chicago News

A few hours after my property tax bill arrived in the mail last week, I took the dog for a walk and bumped into a neighbor. "My taxes went up again," ...

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City Council Approves Midway Airport Deal

Posted 11.06.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago City Council, Midway Airport Privatization, Midway Airport Sale, Midway Airport, Richard Daley, Daley Midway, Privatization, Mayor Daley, Midway Deal City Council, Midway Deal Approved, Midway Lease Approved, Midway City Council, Chicago News

UPDATE The City Council approved the 99-year, $2.5 Billion lease of Midway Airport 49-0 Wednesday. Aldermen are already divvying up the expected $1...

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High Schools Faltering: 70% Fail Reading Standards, Even More Fail Math

Chicago Public Radio | Linda Lutton | Posted 11.06.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Test Scores, Chicago High Schools, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Chicago Public Schools, Richard Daley, Chicago Education, Chicago News

Chicago public high school students lost ground in Illinois' latest round of standardized tests. Last month, Mayor Richard Daley was on hand for the ...

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Daley Recruits Former Chicago Federal Reserve CEO To Tutor Aldermen On Budget

Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 11.02.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Michael Moskow, Richard Daley, Chicago Aldermen, Chicago City Budget, Chicago News

UPDATE The meeting didn't clarify much for aldermen, the Tribune reports. Aldermen who attended a closed-door briefing at City Hall this morning sa...

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Daley Bets Local Eats On Cubs

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 10.31.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Cubs Playoffs, Cubs Dodgers, Daley Cubs, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Daley Bets LA Mayor, Richard Daley, Chicago News

When the Bears faced the Indianapolis Colts in the Super Bowl, Mayor Daley wagered a Taste of Chicago spread with the mayor of Indianapolis with enoug...

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No Connection Between Police Hiring Lag And Rising Crime: Daley

Chicago Tribune | Carlos Sadovi | Posted 10.29.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Daley Police, Chicago Mayor Police, Daley Cops, Richard Daley, Cops, Chicago News

Mayor Richard Daley on Saturday dismissed the notion that his administration's failure to make good on a pledge to hire more police is affecting publi...

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The Sign Guy Changes His Tune But Keeps the Same Stance

Greg Boose | Posted 10.13.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Farhad Khoiee-Abbasi, FBI Agent Chris Saviano, Alberto Gonzales, Richard Daley, Barack Obama, Chris Saviano Sign, Khoiee-Abbasi, Chicago Sign Man, Chicago News
Greg Boose

The legend of Farhad Khoiee-Abbasi goes like this: There's a man so consumed with his long-fought legal battle with his ex-wife (which has resulted in protection orders for her, custody rights lost for him) that he has gone from being an everyday Chicagoan to being a Chicagoan you can see almost every day on the street corner holding a jarring sign or two.

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Rick MacArthur's Left-Right Attacks On Obama

John K. Wilson | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Amy Goodman, Rick Macarthur, Richard Daley, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Home News
John K. Wilson

MacArthur, the publisher of Harper's, reflects a disturbing trend on the left to use Republican smears to destroy a pragmatic progressive like Obama rather than try to contribute to political change in this country.

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August is the Cruelest Month for Democrats

Michael Carmichael | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Evan Bayh, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Karl Rove, Abraham Ribicoff, John McCain, Colin Powell, Kathleen Sebelius, Tim Kaine, Thomas Eagleton, Joseph Biden, Bobby Jindal, Mitt Romney, Michael Dukakis, George Bush Sr., John Zacarro, Hiroshima, Richard Daley, Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro, Charlie Crist, John Kerry, John Zogby, Hillary Clinton, Steve Schmidt, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

A military commander tested in wartime, a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, a Secretary of State, a Vice President Powell would strengthen Obama's candidacy more deeply and more consummately than any other American.

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