Whereas most of the city’s political and civic elite were ready to lead us off the financial cliff.
Tag: No Games Chicago
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Dumke beats mayor’s lawyers in cop spying case
After months of requests and an order from the state, Mayor Emanuel’s police department finally coughs up a few details about its undercover police spy investigations of ordinary citizens.
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Records show Chicago police spied on Olympics protesters
Through FOIA requests, activist confirms that cops investigated foes of the games in 2009.
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TIFs: the tax bill you have to pay but never see
TIFs: the tax bill you have to pay but never see
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Post-Stroger Politics
With everyone’s favorite punching bag out of the way, a look at the problems facing any new Cook County Board president
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I’m really not the only Olympics skeptic out there
Interesting development in the coverage of Chicago’s Olympics campaign in today’s Tribune: the no-games crowd got about as much space as the pro-games crowd. The Trib‘s account of last night’s Olympics forum in Lakeview quoted Tom Tresser, one of the founders of No Games Chicago, on an equal footing with officials from the 2016 bid […]
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IOC, are you listening?
From Ben’s mouth to the IOC’s ear: members of the Olympic committee reportedly promised to read Joravsky’s Reader article telling them to take their Games to some other city.
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1/31–Free talk on Chicago’s Olympic bid
1/31–Free public discussion on Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid