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Home » 9th Ward

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Posted inColumns & Opinion

Altgeld Gardens residents campaign for better pedestrian facilities

by John Greenfield December 16, 2015August 18, 2021

Deloris Lucas has spent years campaigning for a sidewalk on 130th Street. Thanks to a new CDOT study, her efforts may finally get some traction.

Former alderman Robert Shaw says someone needs to beat Mayor Emanuel and it might as well be him.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Political veteran Robert Shaw sees no reason why he can’t become mayor

by Ben Joravsky July 22, 2014August 18, 2021

Reintroducing Robert Shaw, the former alderman who wants to challenge Rahm

Posted inNews & Politics

The Shadow Budget: Who Wins in Daley’s TIF Game

by Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky May 20, 2010August 19, 2021

The economic development funds are supposed to go to neighborhoods that need it. Guess where they’re really going. For the first time ever: how the city spends TIF funds, ward by ward

Posted inNews & Politics

The Only Option?

by Hunter Clauss May 6, 2010August 19, 2021

Alderman Anthony Beale says Walmart is the only retailer interested in Pullman. But more union-friendly retailers say nobody asked them.

Archive Dive Day 37, 2007: The Reader's Ben Joravsky does what he does best—sticking his fingers in the eye of Chicago corruption—in this scathing piece from the August 17, 2007 issue.
Posted inNews & Politics

A Sucker’s System

by Ben Joravsky August 17, 2007September 14, 2021

In effect, the city is proposing to divert roughly $67 million in property taxes from the chronically broke schools, parks, and county on the shoulders of an $8 million project. Only in Chicago would this kind of deal stand a chance.

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