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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…

  • 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…

  • Ron Paul Predictions from 2002

    http://youtu.be/zGDisyWkIBM

  • 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…

  • #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…

  • 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…

  • Who’s Pro Business?

    Recently published is a series of stories on where it’s easier/better to start and run a business.  Whether we like it or not, businesses employ people; people do not employ businesses.  Creating and maintaining a pro-business environment is not easy.  But sure Illinois generally, and Chicago specifically, are failing… or are they? First, a national…

  • Worst Schools Ever

    Six of every 10 Illinois public schools failed to meet federal test targets this year and risk federal sanctions as a result, according to information released Thursday by the Illinois State Board of Education. High schools fared the worst. Statewide, 656 of the 666 public high schools fell short of the proficiency standard on math…

  • Occupy The Courts

    Now this I have a problem with: Lawyers representing about 800 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested in the past month demand that prosecutors drop the charges. If not, they say they won’t deal and will insist on going to trial – putting pressure on the already overloaded Manhattan criminal courts. “I’d like to suggest to…

  • Residents Flee St. Louis

    Does this sound familiar? St. Louis is losing residents, according to U.S. Census figures released Thursday, and the population decline goes deeper than being another blow to the proud city’s image.  The drop will mean a financial loss that could cost the already cash-strapped Gateway City millions of dollars. Figures from the 2010 census were…