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Chicago Design Week’s best events
Five must-do happenings during Chicago Design Week from October 20-27
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Block 37’s Latinicity is rescuing underserved Loop lunchers
Often compared to the Italian superstore Eataly, chef Richard Sandoval’s pan-Hispanic food court is both less and more in positive ways.
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When Chicago spent its pension money on the mayor’s pet projects
As mayor, Richard M. Daley spent hundreds of millions of dollars on unnecessary pet projects—and Emanuel seems to have the same bad habit.
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 12/6: The Nutcracker, Tasting Table Open Market, and Chicago Serbian Film Fest
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, December 6
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Sighted: Moby-Dick-inspired fashion by Elizabeth Alice Crum
For her senior collection at SAIC, the designer pulls her inspiration from the sea.
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Mayor union-buster
Rahm Emanuel fights the Chicago Teachers Union over a longer school day–and it’s not about the kids
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Mayor Emanuel does the TIF reform dance
But he’s not looking like the belle of the ball
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Local Designers at Block 37
Michelle Tan opens a storefront in Block 37, and other local retailers get ready to open their doors as well.
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Who’s Daley supporting in the battle for Block 37?
The newly appointed lawyer for the receiver in the Block 37 case is Jack George from the law firm of Daley & George—as in, the mayor’s younger brother Michael Daley.
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TIFs: Where It All Began and How Joravsky Sussed It From the Start
Ben Joravsky’s first article on the first TIF district, back in 1987, predicted the problems with the program from the start.
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Dear International Olympic Committee
One last argument for why Chicago doesn’t need, want, or deserve the 2016 Olympic games.
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Block 37: You can’t give it away
Loews Hotels pulls out of $1 site. Of note: “In exchange for selling the air rights for $1, Block 37 developer Joseph Freed & Associates LLC would have received $12 million in additional tax-increment financing from the city. That money was supposed to offset cost overruns on the construction of a Chicago Transit Authority station […]
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Ready, Set, (Property Tax) Hike
How will Daley balance the 2010 budget? Prepare for higher property taxes—but not till after the 2016 Olympics are sited.