Author: Jimmy
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Parking Meter Rates Going Up
The rates will soon go up for people parking in the city. Electric pay boxes will begin charging $5 an hour in the downtown area, up from $4.25.And it will cost $3 an hour to park on streets outside the downtown area. The rate increase will go into effect Jan. 1. As part of the…
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Your in Debt, Your Children are in Debt
Tribune ran a great story this week about how the city is hopelessly in debt. The story is worth reading and can be found here; but what’s really interesting is a chart (actually a series of charts) attached to the story. Here’s what you need to know: Chicago’s cash debt is about $6,87 Billion or…
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Yes Virgina, People Flee High Taxes
The results of the 2010 Census are coming in and show: First, the great engine of growth in America is not the Northeast Megalopolis, which was growing faster than average in the mid-20th century, or California, which grew lustily in the succeeding half-century. It is Texas. Its population grew 21 percent in the past decade,…
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U.S. Attorney’s Office Disclosure
[T]he entire annual $32 million budget of the Chicago U.S. attorney’s office [is covered by collections.] … The U.S. attorney’s office here collected from criminals and civil defendants three times as much money as it spent in taxpayer dollars this year, bringing in $99 million in settlements, fines, forfeitures and restitution in 2010. … About…
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Mendoza: Advertising on City Stickers
The flip-side of Chicago’s 1.25 million city stickers would carry advertising to generate $15 million-a-year — enough to hire 100 new police officers and give motorists a modest break — under a plan proposed by the frontrunner for city clerk. State Rep. Susana Mendoza (D-Chicago) wants to turn city stickers into money makers, much the…
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Meeks unsure who’s a “Minority”
Mayoral challenger James Meeks scrambled Thursday to put out a political fire touched off by his suggestion that only African Americans should be eligible for city contracts set aside for minorities and women. (Full story here.) Of course the Reverend knows what a minority is. It’s those who will vote for him. No one else…
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Aldcreature’s Son Get 100k+ job at Water
The son of former Ald. Bernie Hansen 44th has been promoted to a $103,632-a-year job in the city’s Department of Water Management — six months after he was put on unpaid leave for a DUI arrest that stripped him of the driver’s license he needed to do his job. Paul Hansen was a $97,760-a-year assistant…
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Bad Judge is Soft on Crime
Relatives of a teenager shot to death in Evanston in 2007 were angered Wednesday when a judge sentenced the killer to just 10 years in prison. … Cook County Circuit Court Judge Larry Axelrood also sentenced Wright to five years in prison for aggravated discharge of a weapon related to the crime. The sentences are…
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Trib’s Sad Story on Child Abduction
The man in the Chevy Impala tried to stop 15-year-old Lucero Blanco three times before he got out of the car and came after her on foot. … After police picked the man up, mother and daughter both said they recognized his impounded 2005 Impala as the car that had trailed Lucero as she walked…
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Rosemont Homeowners get $3,000
[S]uburban Rosemont is offering its homeowners $3,000 grants. The village may not have landed the big casino, but it has lots of commercial development and relatively few residents. Mayor Brad Stephens likens this year’s grant — the village has parceled out money for 15 years in a row — to a “dividend” a company would…