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Tag: Chicago budget
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Rahm swears off swearing for 2012
Mayor Emanuel is giving up cursing, impeachable sources say
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Rahm’s latest verdict: we’re stuck with the meter deal
Even Emanuel has to acknowledge that the city’s street parking system was sold.
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The parking meter deal: still more hosing to come
The street parking sell off continues to eat at Chicagoans’ wallets.
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Rahm’s secret snow job
Everyone talks about the weather. Chicago’s mayor is doing something about it.
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Chicago’s leaky water system
History reveals that Emanuel won’t change much about how the city taps its water supply.
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Water + sewers = slush fund
How millions of dollars from your water bill flow into Rahm’s city slush fund
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The odds on Emanuel’s budget
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
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
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 […]
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Do as We Say, Not as We Do
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?
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A Round of Really!?! With Mayor Daley
We have some follow-up questions to the questions other outlets have been asking him about our stories.
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Mr. Big Spender
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.
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How to fix a looming city budget apocalypse in two easy links
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 […]