We likely won’t see the 75 percent cut that organizers have asked for, but there are some proposals on the table.
Tag: Chicago city budget
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City officials say they’re committed to community policing, just not to funding it
A closer look at Mayor Emanuel’s plan to “revitalize” the CAPS program
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What a robbery in Edgewater says about the police staffing debate, part two of two
A close look at a jewelry store stickup and the politics of police deployment, part two of two
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What a robbery in Edgewater says about the police staffing debate, part one of two
A close look at a jewelry store stickup and the politics of police deployment
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Top cops can’t explain what’s up with CAPS
CAPS director Ron Holt offers another spin on the future of the police department’s community outreach program
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Superintendent McCarthy dismantles CAPS, will replace it with something at some point
Chicago police chief says we don’t need more cops, just a new community policing policy to be determined later
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Another brick in the wall, part one
It’s great that Chicago aldermen decided to bring accountability to the use of a $1.3 million kitty they control. For a follow up, how about doing the same with the rest of the $6.1 billion city budget?
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It’s All My Fault
Mayor Daley blows his parking-meter wad on one budget. Is he just trying to prove the Reader wrong?
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The city’s legal bills—high and likely to get higher
Suddenly lots of people are talking about how much local taxpayers are paying for city legal bills. But don’t count on them getting smaller anytime soon.
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Alderman Maldonado follows through
Alderman Roberto Maldonado deserves some credit: he’s taken the first step toward fulfilling his promise to withdraw his application for a controversial zoning change on property he owns in his ward, the 26th. Now he’ll have to figure out what to do with the empty lots—which have been periodically overgrown with weeds and occupied by […]
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What law firms are collecting large legal fees from the city of Chicago
This week Mayor Daley and his top lieutenants are holding a series of public hearings on the city’s 2010 budget, which they’ve already said will be difficult to balance, even with an injection of funds from the parking meter deal. As citizens put questions to the city’s top leadership, maybe it’s time to demand some […]
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Still in the dark
It just keeps going. The parking meter privatization agreement was consummated months ago—and the “rainy day fund” it created will already be empty by next year—but city officials still haven’t produced uncensored documents showing just what happened when bids for the deal were opened last fall, even though aldermen officially requested them six weeks ago.
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Who’ll Be the Bad Guy Now?
In a Trib op-ed, Manny Flores backs away from the cap he proposed on public funding for the Olympics.
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Buyer or seller’s market?
The Daley administration and its financial adviser say the lousy economy actually helped the city get a better deal for its parking meters. Evidence from around the country suggests otherwise.