The City Council makes plans for more gun regulations, but not everyone’s on board with Mayor Daley’s gun rhetoric.
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Wheelers, Dealers, and Walmart
Walmart and union leaders have cut a deal that will allow the retailer to open a new store in the far south side Pullman neighborhood. But not everyone in the area is happy about it.
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Is the Third Time a Charm for Walmart?
Once again, the City Council’s zoning committee appears poised to consider plans for a new Walmart store on the far south side, and the project’s sponsor, Alderman Anthony Beale, says he thinks it will advance this time.
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City Council Hearing Turns Into Rally For Handgun Ban
A hearing was held in the City Council Friday “to discuss violence and fire arm registration regulation.” Instead a PR campaign for the city’s gun ban broke out.
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Beale Says He Won’t Bypass Zoning Committee on Walmart
The City Council sponsor of a plan to bring another Walmart to Chicago says he’s not going to use a parliamentary maneuver to push it along, even though Mayor Daley has suggested otherwise.
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Still No Council Hearings Scheduled on Police Understaffing
Mayor Daley’s handpicked chairman of the City Council’s police and fire committee says he’s worried about understaffing at the police department but won’t commit to discussing it in a public hearing.
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As City Council Vote Approaches, Walmart and Unions Still Haven’t Met
Walmart cancels another negotiation session with local unions. Is the new store in Pullman in trouble?
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The Shadow Budget: Who Wins in Daley’s TIF Game
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
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The Only Option?
Alderman Anthony Beale says Walmart is the only retailer interested in Pullman. But more union-friendly retailers say nobody asked them.
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Is Walmart the Only Retailer Interested in Pullman? Maybe Not.
Alderman Anthony Beale has said that Walmart is the only retailer interested in opening a store on a 180-acre site on the far south side. But other retailers say no one asked them about it.
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Mayor Daley settles on Beale for police committee post
Mayor Daley taps Ninth Ward alderman Anthony Beale to chair the City Council’s police and fire committee.
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Alderman Burnett: An African American should lead the police and fire committee
The City Council’s Committee on Police and Fire still doesn’t have a chairman, and that’s making the Black Caucus nervous.
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50 Aldermen/50 Artists
All 50 portraits, from the group show, including works by Derek Erdman, Jon Gitelson, Lucas Blair Simpson, and more
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Buy High, Sell Low
Most of us would agree that it’s great news—that it’s about-freaking-time news—when the city announces it’s forged a deal to bring a supermarket to a longtime food desert in Roseland. Many of us might also wonder if it should have taken less than ten years and cost less than $3 million in taxpayer money.
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Green for Green
The city and Exelon are moving ahead with plans to create the largest urban solar power plant in the country. How much will it cost us?