Tag: SunTimes
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Businesses Get the Old Yes No on the G-8/NATO Summits
Well which is it? Mayor Rahm Emanuel was asked Thursday whether businesses located within the inner-most security perimeter will have a process to recover lost profits incurred during the May 19-21 events at McCormick Place. “The [NATO and G-8] Host Committee is working on it. They’ll have a process for that,” he answered. ……
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Beavers Indictment: Talking When Should be Quiet
Talk about passing the buck: Cook County Commissioner William Beavers, an old-school Chicago politician who likes to call himself “The Hog With the Big Nuts,” has been indicted on federal tax charges. … But Beavers, 77, called the indictment “horse s— I’m not worried about.” He said the feds only indicted him because he refused…
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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…