In the last few weeks, Mayor Lightfoot has revealed several important details about the casino she’s pushing so hard to develop, including . . . Where it will go—near Chicago and Halsted on the city’s near north side. Who will run it—Bally’s Corporation. And why we need it—to raise money to pay police and firefighter […]
Tag: Michael Reese Hospital
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Bob Dylan’s ode to Chicago
The new Michael Reese TIF plan tries to undo the damage of the old one.
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Forget development on the south or west side: the privately owned Chicago casino is likely going downtown
Why are we doing this again?
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Amazon bid includes $2.25 billion in incentives, far less than the $9 billion offered by New Jersey, and other Chicago news
Also, Yelp names the five best Chicago neighborhoods to open a business in.
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Billionaire J.B. Pritzker makes his 2018 gubernatorial run official, and other Chicago news
Also, a Toronto-to-Chicago flight was grounded after a fake bomb was found in a passenger’s luggage.
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Oh, the irony: Mayor Rahm’s allies call Lucas Museum opponents elitists
The coded language at the heart of the lakefront fight.
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Rahm’s Lucas/McPier plan is straight outta Daley’s playbook of South Loop boondoggles
And it shows Emanuel would rather spend money on pet projects than on the public schools.
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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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The Michael Reese fleece
Unable to afford school janitors, the city makes the first of many million dollar payments to buy Michael Reese hospital from Medline.
Posted inArts & Culture
The ugly beauty of urban exploration
Urban explorers capture stunning images amid rust belt ruin. But are they also urban exploiters?
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Rahm gets into the real estate game—with your money
Rahm gets in the real estate game—with your money.
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The man who wasn’t afraid of the mayor
Bill Lavicka unafraid to fight the mayor
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The Uptown Theatre’s opulent decay
Eric Holubow’s photography exhibit “In Decay—Stitching America’s Ruins” at the Chicago Cultural Center.
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Zoom in: Bronzeville
Michael Reese Hospital isn’t getting developed any time soon.
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Olympics consolation prize: a casino?
Dan Mihalopoulos breaks the news that Richard Mell and George Cardenas want one to take the place of the Olympic Village (I don’t hold out any hope that developers would consider the Gropiusness of the site a draw for gambling architecture buffs). This will of course raise questions of the sort inspired by the video […]