Hey, Joe Ferguson: If Mayor Rahm’s making you leave in a year—go out strong.
Tag: DePaul basketball arena
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Education in Chicago: Millions for DePaul, bulldozers for Whittier Elementary
Having run out of schools to close, Mayor Rahm bulldozes La Casita.
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Mayor Rahm takes a TIF poll!
Feeling the heat from parents upset about school funding cuts, Mayor Emanuel sets up a hot line.
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Mayor Rahm gives Cubs a tax break—team says thanks by losing five games in a row
Mayor Emanuel gives the Cubs a property tax break as the team battles Milwaukee for last place.
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Hey, parents and teachers and principals: Here’s where the money is!
Mayor Emanuel tips his hand on what he might give the schools from the TIF reserves.
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Meigs Field II—the City Council very quietly passes Mayor Rahm’s DePaul basketball arena deal
Shame on Chicago: the City Council sneaks through a land deal, taking tens of millions of dollars from our dead-broke schools.
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Why your tax money keeps going down the TIF portal hole
Why your tax money keeps going down the TIF portal hole
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Mayor Rahm to north-side parents: Hush your mouths and you’ll get your money
Emanuel magically discovers some money for north-side schools in the hopes that the parents will shut up about larger cuts and other stuff—like a certain $55 million basketball/hotel TIF deal.
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Karen Fraid: Unafraid to tell the truth about school “reform”
A Rogers Park mom and school blogger is not afraid to tell is like it is in her blog, That Way Madness Lies.
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Happy Independence Day, Chicago—say no to the $55 million DePaul B-ball arena/hotel
As a small step toward independence, Chicagoans should sign an online petition calling on Mayor Emanuel not to take tens of millions from our dead-broke schools and spend it on a basketball arena for DePaul.
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Mayor Rahm learns about the Blackhawks
Hey, Mayor Rahm—no one cares that you really don’t care about the Blackhawks.
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Show some pride, Chicago: Boo Mayor Rahm in Sunday’s parade
The buck stops somewhere else—Mayor Emanuel plays the blame game for the failure of the gay marriage bill and a resolution to the teacher pension issue.
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Mayor Rahm to Von Steuben: No toilet paper for you!
Mayor Rahm’s spending so much cash on his hotel/DePaul basketball arena scheme that he’s got no money to buy toilet paper or librarians for the schools.
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Millions for DePaul, budget cuts for public schools
As principals warn their staff of budget cuts in the public schools, Mayor Emanuel takes another step to spend $55 million in property taxes on a hotel and DePaul University basketball arena.
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Gay marriage breakdown: The Republican state of Chicago’s Democratic politics
With gay marriage as with school closings and crony capitalism—we live in a land of Democrats who are ruled by closet Republicans.