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Home » Chicago budget

Tag: Chicago budget

Posted inBlogs

Rahm: ‘Chicago is back on solid ground’ after facing ‘the financial brink,’ and other news

by Kate Shepherd October 12, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, Second City announces management changes after half the cast of A Red Line Runs Through It leave.

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Rahm swears off swearing for 2012

by Steve Bogira January 5, 2012August 19, 2021

Mayor Emanuel is giving up cursing, impeachable sources say

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Rahm’s latest verdict: we’re stuck with the meter deal

by Mick Dumke December 14, 2011August 19, 2021

Even Emanuel has to acknowledge that the city’s street parking system was sold.

Posted inBlogs

The parking meter deal: still more hosing to come

by Mick Dumke December 13, 2011August 19, 2021

The street parking sell off continues to eat at Chicagoans’ wallets.

Posted inBlogs

Rahm’s secret snow job

by Steve Bogira December 1, 2011August 19, 2021

Everyone talks about the weather. Chicago’s mayor is doing something about it.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago’s leaky water system

by Mick Dumke November 11, 2011August 19, 2021

History reveals that Emanuel won’t change much about how the city taps its water supply.

Posted inNews & Politics

Water + sewers = slush fund

by Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky November 10, 2011August 19, 2021

How millions of dollars from your water bill flow into Rahm’s city slush fund

Posted inBlogs

The odds on Emanuel’s budget

by Steve Bogira November 8, 2011August 19, 2021

According to local bookies, the chances of Rahm’s budget passing are roughly 100 percent.

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Rahm Emanuel’s shifting views of the parking meter deal

by Mick Dumke September 7, 2011August 19, 2021

Two-and-a-half years after it was consummated, the infamous parking-meter lease deal won’t go away—perhaps because there’s 72+ years left of it. Last week, for example, citizens submitted at least four questions about the city’s meter system or the deal itself during Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s two town hall meetings. The mayor called the use of meter […]

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Emanuel Lays Out His Many Goals, with Details To Be Provided at a Later Date

by Mick Dumke May 10, 2011August 19, 2021

Give the man credit: Rahm Emanuel is certainly setting the bar high. He and his team released a 72-page “transition plan” this morning listing dozens of goals for his administration, from boosting economic growth to increasing the number of people who regularly bicycle. “It will be a scorecard for the public to keep my administration […]

Ron Huberman
Posted inNews & Politics

Do as We Say, Not as We Do

by Ben Joravsky April 1, 2010August 19, 2021

The Chicago Public Schools are broke. Teachers have been asked to share the pain. Coaches have been asked to work for free. Bigger class sizes have been threatened. So why are CEO Ron Huberman and other top bureaucrats taking raises?

Mayor Richard M. Daley
Posted inNews & Politics

A Round of Really!?! With Mayor Daley

by Mick Dumke November 5, 2009August 19, 2021

We have some follow-up questions to the questions other outlets have been asking him about our stories.

Posted inNews & Politics

Mr. Big Spender

by Ben Joravsky August 5, 2009August 19, 2021

The Central Loop tax increment financing district—the oldest and largest TIF of them all—came in with a boom and went out with a binge.

Posted inBlogs

How to fix a looming city budget apocalypse in two easy links

by Whet Moser July 30, 2009August 19, 2021

Sun-Times: “Chicago has a $519.7 million budget shortfall in 2010” Progress Illinois: “As we recently pointed out, a document released by the city last month shows that Daley’s 150-plus TIF districts ended 2008 with $1 billion in aggregate unspent funds.” Acronym you won’t find in either the Sun-Times’s or the Trib‘s articles on the 2010 […]

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Stunt men

by Mick Dumke March 23, 2009August 19, 2021

An alderman rips proposals to strengthen oversight of City Council–and it’s not an old machine guy this time.

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