It all started with this story: Even though the legislature and Gov. Pat Quinn last year imposed a temporary 67 percent state income tax increase, Quinn’s office expects to have a $500 million budget deficit this year. Quinn is calling for a 9 percent cut in...
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...
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...
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....
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...
