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Rawlings-Blake questions Clinton on infrastructure
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake got a rare opportunity to throw a question at former President Bill Clinton, courtesy of Bloomberg Businessweek -- and she used it to ask how the nation can stimulate a "more serious, bipartisan" discussion on...
Tags: Government, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, NRG Energy Incorporated, John T. Chambers, Politics
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DuPage chief latest to woo Cubs
Add DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin to the list of suburban politicians angling to lure the Chicago Cubs to his turf if there's an unlikely collapse of the city-sanctioned framework plan to renovate Wrigley Field. Citing what he described as a...
Tags: Fishing, Thomas Ricketts, Local Government, Wrigleyville, Chicago Mayor
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DuPage County chairman wants to pitch Cubs on moving west
Clout StreetAdd DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin to the list of suburban politicians angling to lure the Chicago Cubs to his turf if there’s an unlikely collapse of the city-sanctioned framework plan to renovate Wrigley Field. Citing what he...Tags: Fishing, Thomas Ricketts, Local Government, Wrigleyville, Chicago Mayor
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Chicago draws near record 46M tourists in 2012
Tribune reporterChicago hosted a near-record 46.2 million visitors last year, with growth in overnight leisure travel driving the city back to pre-recession levels. The total is a 6.1 percent increase over 2011, and brings the city close to its 2007 record of 46.3...Tags: Travel, Advertising, Hotels and Accommodations, Business Trips, Trips and Vacations
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Emanuel to head to Israel on Friday
Clout StreetMayor Rahm Emanuel and his youngest daughter will leave for Israel on Friday to commemorate her bat mitzvah, the third such trip he has made with his children. While there, the mayor will attend the Israeli Presidential Conference June 18-20 in...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Israel, Barack Obama, Chicago Mayor, Tony Blair
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Deep Tunnel, shallow thinking?
Heavy rains in April quickly swamped Chicago's underground labyrinth of sewers, forcing a stomach-churning surge of waste and runoff back into basements and flooding neighborhoods across the city. The deluge so overloaded the city's aging infrastructure...
Tags: Richard M. Daley, Natural Resource Industry, Natural Resources Defense Council, Conservation, Local Government
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Covering Chicago's struggles with the rain starts, ends with history
For a city built on a swamp, dealing with rainstorms has always been a problem. More than a century ago, Chicago infamously engineered its namesake river to flow backward, away from Lake Michigan. The dredging of canals and construction of locks and...
Tags: Richard M. Daley, Natural Resources Defense Council, Science and Technology
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Preckwinkle to announce re-election campaign
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle will launch her re-election bid Tuesday, saying she wants another four years to try to reform the way the county locks up adult and juvenile criminal defendants and to get more people out to the forest...
Tags: Chicago Elections, Local Elections, Local Government, Chicago Mayor, Timothy O. Schneider
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Chicago Public Schools issues 5-year plan
An annual scorecard on the district's performance and greater accountability throughout the system are some of the promises outlined in the first long-term plan for Chicago Public Schools issued since Mayor Rahm Emanuel took office. Schools CEO...
Tags: Teachers, Terry Mazany, Chicago Public Schools, Karen Lewis, Chicago Teachers Strike
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Annual report card for parents part of new CPS education plan
Tribune reporterChicago Public Schools unveiled a five-year education plan on Monday that promises an annual report card to provide parents with information on the academic performance of schools and show how many principals and teachers are rated as high performers....Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Karen Lewis, Report Cards, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Mayor
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Chicago's gun registry on the ropes
Chicago's 3-year-old gun registry could go away as part of the concealed carry law state lawmakers recently passed, but few are publicly mourning the loss of a database once heralded as a key part of the city's gun control laws. The registry, put in...
Tags: Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Richard M. Daley, Chicago City Hall, Crime, Law and Justice
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Emanuel not ruling out raising CPS property tax limits
Mayor Rahm Emanuel isn't ruling out seeking a way to raise Chicago Public Schools' property tax cap to help close the $1 billion deficit the district faces. The mayor's comments came the day after his hand-picked school board president, David Vitale,...
Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Politics, Taxation, Chicago Mayor, Pension and Welfare
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