Month: January 2012
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Occupy Chicago Gets a Home
Occupy Chicago has secured a new home base to coordinate its winter activities. The group is leasing two units on the fifth and seventh floors of Riverfront Work Lofts at 500 W. Cermak Road. … The fifth-floor unit is nearly 3,400 square feet, while the seventh-floor unit is about 2,500 square feet. Kaunert said protesters…
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Ward Remap: Round Two
Alderman Bob Fioretti 2nd Ward, one of eight alderman to vote no on the map, stated in his email newsletter on Thursday that he has no intentions of dropping the issue. “I believe that new map breaks up communities of interest and includes deviations in population from ward to ward, which may subject it to…
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Ron Paul Predictions from 2002
http://youtu.be/zGDisyWkIBM
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Church Groups Getting Public Money
Here’s something: Faith-based groups that have become the face of community support for Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s controversial plans to lengthen the school day and close failing schools also receive millions of dollars in grants from his administration. … One of the key players touting grass-roots support for Emanuel’s agenda is the Rev. Roosevelt Watkins, a…
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#OCCUPYCHICAGO
I found a post on Second City Cop about the madness coming this spring. SCC was concerned that the kids were going to “live without dead time for a month in May and see what happens.” Hardly a threat. What I found interesting was their claim that: On May 1, 50,000 people from all over…
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Illinois Unemployment vs. The Media
Good News!! CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Unemployment dropped to 9.8 percent in Illinois in December, state officials said Friday, a second straight monthly decrease that capped a year in which the jobless rate fell almost a full percentage point from 2010. via Chicago Tribune. Or, maybe not: The unemployment rate in the Chicago area rose…