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Ex-Chicago police leader Hillard gets flak in bid for police reform job in New Orleans
The Chicago Police Department's troubling legacy of civil rights abuses has become an issue in a surprising place — New Orleans, which is trying to tackle its own systemic problems with police abuse. Among the two finalists to oversee major...
Tags: Chicago Police Department, Justice, Jon Burge, Laws, Joliet
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Chicago aldermen approve Emanuel's parking meter changes
Clout StreetThe Chicago City Council today approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s controversial plan to change the terms of the city’s parking meter lease despite questions about the deal’s financial impact and fear of giving Chicago Parking Meters LLC...Tags: Politics, John Arena, Elections, Chicago Mayor, Gold Coast
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By the numbers, how Rahm could lose in 2015
A new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows that, halfway through his first term, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's overall disapproval rating is up 11 percentage points over a year ago. Four in 10 Chicago voters — and nearly half of the city's African-American voters...
Tags: Politics, Toni Preckwinkle, Elections, Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel
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The new parking-meter deal: Break it apart or throw it out
Change of SubjectThis item from Friday, as revised, appears in my Sunday print column Chicago Parking Meters LLC rolled us once. In 2008, the company struck a deal with Mayor Richard Daley and a compliant City Council that gave it control of...... -
Bears to retire Ditka's No. 89
There seems to be a budding debate about whether the Bears can build a bridge to repair relations and retire the jersey number of a certain disgruntled former employee. It will happen this season. Dat's right. For Michael Keller Ditka Jr., the man...
Tags: ESPN (tv network), Philadelphia Eagles, Dick Butkus, Super Bowl, Shea McClellin
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In all seriousness, please go fly a kite
There was the day, four years ago, when the great jazz singer Kurt Elling and I, two people not light on self-confidence, decided that we would teach our 4-year-old daughters to fly kites. So, we bought a couple of plastic, diamond-shaped kites at a toy...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Toy Industry
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Aldermen fret new deal will feed meter firm's profits
Skeptical aldermen took aim Friday at Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to revamp the much-reviled parking meter lease, warning that his proposal to trade longer meter hours for free Sundays could turn into yet another financial boon for the company holding the...
Tags: Scott Waguespack, Joseph A. Moore, Local Government, Chicago Mayor, Brendan Reilly
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Rosenthal: China too big to be ignored
A free trade agreement between the United States and China? Really? How would that work? We give them our intellectual property and they give us their political dissidents? Loosening restrictions on trade and investment between the two justifiably...
Tags: Trade Dispute, University of Chicago, Chicago Mayor, Lifestyle and Leisure, Henry Paulson
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CPS approves largest school closure in Chicago's history
Tribune reportersMonths of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings....Tags: Family, Politics, University of Chicago, Francis Scott Key, Near North Side
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CPS OKs massive closings
Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings....
Tags: Illinois General Assembly, Ryerson Incorporated, Jesse Owens, Walter Burnett, Jr., Voting
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Red Line rehab poses political challenge for Emanuel
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday lauded Chicago Transit Authority workers for their "flawless" rollout of a five-month Red Line reconstruction that has shuttle buses replacing train service. So far, they're breathing a sigh of relief at City Hall. The...
Tags: Public Transportation, Bobby Rush, Politics, Howard Brookins, Englewood
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Chicago and red light vendor: Breaking up is hard to do
Chicago's divorce with Redflex Traffic Systems is getting messy. In his hurry to sever ties with the red-light camera operator amid a burgeoning bribery scandal, Mayor Rahm Emanuel in February set a six-month deadline for Redflex to leave town after a...
Tags: Bribery, Xerox Corporation, Corporate Crime, Photography Supplies and Services, Chicago City Hall
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May 8, 2013
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