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Tag: Mayor Daley
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Rahm could’ve been the hero in the McDonald shooting
By doing the immoral and politically stupid thing instead, Emanuel is a bum.
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Can Chicago take another heat wave?
Sociologist Eric Klinenberg applauds Chicago’s heat disaster plan, but worries about an event worsened by global warming.
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The ghosts of the Daley administration haunt Mayor Rahm’s budget hearings
Though he blames Mayor Daley for the budget crisis that’s making him jack up property taxes, Mayor Rahm has filled his budget office with old Daley staffers.
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Mayor Rahm runs out on his own budget hearing
As last night’s hearing at the South Shore Cultural Center showed, the Mayor was going through the motions when he solicited budget ideas and suggestions from Chicago’s citizens.
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Mayor Rahm brings back the budget hearings!
With Mayor Rahm getting ready to jack up your taxes, he has to at least pretend he gives a hoot about what you have to say.
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It’s time Mayor Rahm treated teachers like they were police officers or firefighters
Mayor Emanuel—like Governor Rauner and Scott Walker—have different attitudes when it comes to dealing with unions of teachers as opposed to police and firefighters.
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All aboard Mayor Rahm’s O’Hare express train to bankruptcy
As the City Council voted to borrow $1.1 billion to pay off the debt on some of Mayor Daley’s boondoggles, Mayor Rahm was vowing to waste even more money on the O’Hare express train.
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Thanking Chicago’s school children for their sacrifice
With the Willis Tower and other downtown buildings fetching record sales prices, it’s a good time to remember how much TIF money we’ve sunk into these areas.
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Mayor Rahm channels his inner Karl Marx
As long as Mayor Rahm’s daring to criticize the bond raters, he’s should start playing hardball with the lenders who stand to profit from Chicago’s economic crisis.
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Alderman Emma Mitts wants more 37th Ward charter schools
Mitts readies herself for a fight with the teachers’ union as she faces a runoff against teacher Tara Stamps.
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A 25th Ward challenger accuses Alderman Solis of election shenanigans, demands recount
Byron Sigcho is hoping a recount shows he has a few dozen more votes to force a runoff with 25th Ward alderman Danny Solis.
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What would Mayor Rahm do without Detroit?
Leave it to one of the mayor’s Republican backers—Senator Mark Kirk—to use the Detroit analogy to try to scare white Chicagoans into voting for Rahm.
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An editorial endorsement for . . . anyone but Rahm!
It’s sheep-herding season in Chicago, as everyone from Mayor Daley to the editorial boards of the mainstream papers urges the voters to reelect Mayor Rahm.