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Hearing officers oppose 13 of closings planned by CPS
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s push to shut 53 city elementary schools ran into an unexpected buzz saw of criticism Tuesday from hearing officers hired to vet the process, with several raising doubts about the wisdom of the proposals and recommending...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Garfield Park, Justice System, Near North Side, Crime, Law and Justice
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Coming to terms with the reality of our city
In Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie," a prosperous Chicago businessman, George Hurstwood, takes up with the young, gorgeous Carrie Meeber, chucks family and home, and runs away with Carrie to Montreal. They find their way to New York, where their tales...
Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Reader, Book, Reviews, Rahm Emanuel
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Drivers to pay longer under parking meter settlement
Tribune reportersDrivers would have to feed most Chicago parking meters for more hours every day except Sunday under a plan Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced as part of a deal to settle a long-running dispute with the private firm that holds the controversial 75-year meter...Tags: Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Scott Waguespack, Elections, Local Government
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel expected to name Desiree Rogers as board chairman at Choose Chicago
Former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers is expected to be appointed board chairman of Choose Chicago, lending her national profile to the agency that sells the city as a tourism and convention destination, according to a source familiar with...
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, White House, Desirée Rogers, Corporate Officers, University of Chicago
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One vote, many lives
The Chicago City Council will vote on many items Wednesday. None likely will be more important than the zoning change on tap for the property at 2245 W. Pershing Road. That is where Concept Schools, a top-quality charter operator, wants to open the...
Tags: New Products, Rahm Emanuel, McKinley Park, Charter Schools, Politics
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Chicago suburbs ready to play for new casinos
While lawmakers debate a plan to expand gambling in Illinois, some Chicago suburbs are already jockeying to cash in as hosts to the next generation of casinos. Waukegan, North Chicago and Park City in Lake County, along with six townships in southern...
Tags: Politics, Homewood, Values, Waukegan, Casino and Gambling Industry
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Desiree Rogers seen as next Choose Chicago chairman
Tribune reporterMayor Rahm Emanuel is expected to appoint former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers as board chairman of Choose Chicago, the not-for-profit agency that sells Chicago as a tourism and convention destination, according to a source familiar with the...Tags: Chicago Sun-Times, Barack Obama, Tourism and Leisure, Authors, Rahm Emanuel
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Ads take the field in Wrigley rehab plans
The Chicago Cubs want to restore Wrigley Field in the style of an era long gone by, even as the team ushers aspects of the ballpark into the 21st century, including a large video board and more electronic advertising common at stadiums across the nation....
Tags: Advertising, Rahm Emanuel, Thomas Ricketts, Times Square, Baseball
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How helpful are surveillance cameras?
After the Boston Marathon bombings, Mayor Emanuel extolled the value of video surveillance cameras and promised to keep adding them in Chicago, which already has the nation's most extensive network. In Boston, the cameras didn't deter the killers, but...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Rahm Emanuel, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Sports
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Fool me once ...
Two words scare the pants off Chicago aldermen: parking meters. The City Council's 40-5 vote in December 2008 to allow a private company to take over the city's meters stands as one of the dumbest and most despised decisions in the council's history....
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Rahm Emanuel, Gold Coast, River North, Elections
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Surveillance cameras aren't all that
Video surveillance cameras have been growing in popularity for years, but in recent weeks their advance has gotten a turbo boost. After helping to identify two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, the cameras went from occasionally desirable to...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Rahm Emanuel, Michael Bloomberg, Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Quinn leery of gambling expansion loopholes
Repeated assurances by gambling expansion supporters that a Chicago casino would be under the strict supervision of the state's gambling regulators isn't enough for Gov. Pat Quinn, who is eyeing a provision that he worries could undermine that authority....
Tags: Terry Link, Rahm Emanuel, Regional Authority, Pat Quinn, Politics
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