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Category: Neighborhood News

Posted inNews & Politics

Rod Gives ‘Em the Shaft, Part II

by Ben Joravsky September 9, 2004August 19, 2021

Another old pal of the governor is denied a job merely because he’s a felon.

Posted inNews & Politics

Go Home and Play!

by Ben Joravsky September 2, 2004August 19, 2021

The neighborhood parks have never looked better, but we’re paying for it in staff and program cuts.

Posted inNews & Politics

The Price of Milk in East Village

by Ben Joravsky August 26, 2004August 19, 2021

Alderman Manny Flores is on the hot seat again, this time over a giant Dominick’s that would replace Edmar Foods.

Posted inNews & Politics

No Law Against That

by Grant Pick August 19, 2004August 19, 2021

John Vasilopulos says he doesn’t dislike his neighbors because they’re gay. He just thinks they’re jerks.

Posted inNews & Politics

Don’t Ask, Wont Tell; Union Park Gets Its Weight Room

by Ben Joravsky August 12, 2004August 19, 2021

The Park District was only tring to clean up a toxic playlot, but bad communication poisoned relations with the neighbors.

Posted inNews & Politics

How to Kill an Ordinance, One Vote at a Time; There’s Mold in Them Thar Walls

by Ben Joravsky August 5, 2004August 19, 2021

Activists are pressuring the City Council to set aside housing for the poor. But aldermen take their orders from a higher authority.

Posted inNews & Politics

Let Them Lift Cake

by Ben Joravsky July 29, 2004August 19, 2021

The Park District can’t afford $800 worth of equipment to keep a west-side weight room open? That’s less than the price of a plate at last week’s Millennium Park fund-raiser.

Posted inNews & Politics

There Goes Another School

by Ben Joravsky July 22, 2004August 19, 2021

Daley says he wants more of them–so why’s the city tearing this one down?

Posted inNews & Politics

Public Promises, Private Cuts

by Ben Joravsky July 15, 2004August 19, 2021

While Mayor Daley trumpets this year’s school fixes, he’s quietly undoing last year’s.

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Think You’re Safe From the Boot? Think Again.; Suckered on the South Side

by Ben Joravsky July 8, 2004August 19, 2021

You may still be boot eligible even if you no longer have three unpaid parking tickets.

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Maxwell Street, the Musical; So Long, Sweet Caroline

by Ben Joravsky July 1, 2004August 19, 2021

The neoghborhood’s gone, but a multimedia cottage industry has grown up to ensure it won’t be forgotten.

Posted inNews & Politics

The Wrong Kind of Activist; Blago Blows It

by Ben Joravsky June 24, 2004August 19, 2021

Why the city didn’t want the wiseacres of Break the Gridlock at its pro-bike rally.

Posted inNews & Politics

School’s Out Forever

by Ben Joravsky June 17, 2004August 19, 2021

Certain poor black schools are sitting on some mighty promising real estate. How convenient that enrollment’s down too.

Posted inNews & Politics

Try City Hall, Sherlock

by Ben Joravsky June 10, 2004August 19, 2021

The sheriff’s guys can’t track down an alderman?

Posted inNews & Politics

When Aldermen Attack

by Ben Joravsky June 3, 2004August 19, 2021

Without Daley telling them how to vote on the Wal-Mart issue, the aldermen began to turn on each other.

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