With two aldermen indicted on just one day, Chicago proves it’s second to none when it comes to corruption.
Tag: Ricardo Munoz
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Just 15 seats hang in the balance
Runoff season is here, and Chicago may further freshen up the City Council.
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Alderman Raymond Lopez under police protection after retaliatory threats from gangs, and other Chicago news
Also, former mayor Richard M. Daley’s photo has finally been added to the wall of mayors at City Hall.
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Emanuel’s pushing for undocumented immigrants and the homeless to get city-issued IDs, and other Chicago news
Also, an alderman wants to spend $25 million on programs to prevent gang and gun violence over the summer.
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What a robbery in Edgewater says about the police staffing debate, part one of two
A close look at a jewelry store stickup and the politics of police deployment
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Superintendent McCarthy dismantles CAPS, will replace it with something at some point
Chicago police chief says we don’t need more cops, just a new community policing policy to be determined later
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Painting the picture of an efficient operation
The race to bring Cook County court records into the modern world
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New City Council, just about the same as the old City Council
Jennifer McLaughlin Anyone wanting a glimpse of how the Chicago City Council works should have taken in this morning’s meeting of its Committee on Special Events, Cultural Affairs, and Recreation—all two minutes of it. Twenty-five items were on the meeting agenda, all of them involving permits, licenses, and fee waivers for events such as the […]
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The first meeting of the new mayor and City Council is nothing if not efficient
Mayor Rahm Emanuel presides over his first full City Council meeting, which runs about as smoothly as the ones Mayor Daley used to preside over.
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New Report Shows a Reliable City Council for Daley
The City Council voted with Mayor Daley 82 percent of the time since 2007, according to a new report from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Authored by political scientist and former alderman Dick Simpson, the report shows that seven aldermen voted with Mayor Daley 100 percent of the time since 2007: John Pope (10th […]
Posted inArts & Culture
50 Aldermen/50 Artists
All 50 portraits, from the group show, including works by Derek Erdman, Jon Gitelson, Lucas Blair Simpson, and more
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What Streets Do They Sweep?
Aldermen opposed to the mayor’s street-sweeping plan couldn’t round up enough of their colleagues to take a vote against it this morning, but they declared victory anyway.
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The Conundrum of the Quorum
Three aldermen have called a special session of the City Council. Will anyone show up?
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Mayor Daley Fail
Mayor Daley gets heat for not making sense when he talks – not unlike his father, actually – but there’s a reason why. When he does make sense, it often ends badly (background here): “Daley said the alderman’s efforts to help a relative and possibly other constituents showed the need to build more good schools […]