President Obama and Mayor Emanuel tout a $70 million grant for a site that already received $10 million in public subsidies.
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A Line Down the Block for the Opening of 50 Aldermen, 50 Artists
Aldermen and artists attended the opening of the Wicker Park show “The Aldermen Project: 50 Aldermen/50 Artists.”
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Alderman Moreno Begins His Career in the City Council With a Fund-raiser
He hasn’t been sworn in yet, but the newly appointed alderman of the First Ward is headlining a fund-raiser.
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Who Wants to Be an Alderman?
In a showy nod to transparency, Mayor Daley called for applications to fill two midterm vacancies in the City Council. But the real selection process was as opaque as ever.
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The Mayor’s Announcing His Aldermanic Picks, and We Don’t Get to See Who Applied—Yet
The city is forced to reveal the names of everyone who applied for the open aldermanic seats in the First and 29th wards—but not until after Mayor Daley has appointed people to fill them.
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City Forced to Reveal Who’s Applying for Alderman—but not Till After Daley’s Made His Appointments
The city is forced to reveal the names of everyone who applied for the open aldermanic seats in the First and 29th wards—but not until after Mayor Daley has appointed people to fill them.
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Help Wanted: Candidates for Alderman
Mayor Daley places a help-wanted ad for aldermen to serve the 1st and 29th wards.
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Alexi’s Albatross
Can Alexi Giannoulias shake off the problems plaguing his family’s bank to win Obama’s old Senate seat?
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Olympic Compromise
The City Council authorizes the mayor to spend as much money as he wants as long as he tells them about it afterward.
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Chicago’s 2016 Olympic Bid
Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke on Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympic Games
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There’s no “NAY” in “TEAM”
Critics often deride the Chicago City Council as a mayoral rubber stamp. Aldermen want you to know the critics have it wrong. “We are a team on the City Council,” Eighth Ward alderman Michelle Harris said today. “There’s nothing we can’t do with each other.” That raises all sorts of possibilities, but I think she […]
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The Substitute for the Substitute
Mayor Daley proposes watered-down 2016 oversight to replace Manny Flores’s oversight compromise.
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The Bloomingdale Trail: Urban Oasis or Devil’s Playground?
Despite easy access and great publicity, the Bloomingdale Trail isn’t slated to open till at least 2016. Whose job is it to secure it until then?
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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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Better to ask forgiveness than permission
The mayor’s willing to talk about his latest promise to ante up for the 2016 Daley Games, after he gets back from his latest world tour. Plus, the committee makes an amusingly perfect hire in Ari Fleischer.