Please, Governor Pritzker, keep legislative mapmaking away from the Trump cultists in the GOP.
Tag: Better Government Association
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Alderman Ed Burke out as head of finance committee
Rahm has already chosen his replacement.
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Hundreds of Illinois prisoners languish behind bars waiting for Dorothy Brown to do her job
The court clerk lost the records of James Allen, who’s fighting to overturn convictions that put him in prison 30 years ago. His case is not unique.
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Chicago officials take a page from Trump playbook to justify Navy Pier TIF ‘shell game’
The Emanuel administration’s explanation for how $55 million wound up paying for Navy Pier renovations sounds like gobbledygook from the presidential administration.
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Chicago’s TIF scam might be even more crooked than we thought
The city’s TIFs will generate a record $561 million this tax year. Which means more money for the mayor to sneakily divert into vanity projects like Navy Pier.
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Records dump reveals Rahm’s millionaires-only e-mail club
Wealthy and powerful men had direct access to the mayor, while activists and ordinary citizens were kept at bay.
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Rahm Emanuel releases several years’ worth of e-mails, and other Chicago news
Also, outgoing Republican senator Mark Kirk laments the lost of the moderate establishment in the age of Trump.
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Many millions of dollars later, what’s up with Navy Pier?
And what’s in store for the future?
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After BGA leaders depart, survivors vote to unionize
Employees of the Better Government Association vote 11 to 0 to join the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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In freedom of information triumph, Chicago police misconduct complaint records now online
But the victory is limited by an injunction that insulates the vast majority of police shooting investigations from public scrutiny.
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The one-man battle to find out where Ventra came from
After suing the CTA, Jason Prechtel got the inside scoop on how Chicago ended up with Ventra.
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The Lucas Museum: On soggy ground?
Friends of the Parks’ lawsuit over the proposed site of the Lucas Museum goes beyond a dispute over the lakefront and into federal court.
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Friends of the Parks files suit to stop the Lucas Museum
Friends of the Parks is going to federal court today to prevent the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art from building on Park District property.
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Firm tied to Bruce Rauner profits from ‘court-sanctioned extortion’
While Illinois prisons are dangerously overcrowded, the GOP candidate for governor has made money from privatized criminal justice systems.
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Mayor Rahm and Joe Ferguson make love, not war
Hey, Joe Ferguson: If Mayor Rahm’s making you leave in a year—go out strong.