Mayor Rahm’s so eager to fire more union teachers, he’s planning to stick a Noble Charter high school across the street from Prosser High—public safety be damned.
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Chicago’s TIF program: The gift that keeps on taking
Chicago’s TIF program: The gift that keeps on taking.
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School closings in Chicago—I ain’t over ’em yet!
Mayor Emanuel’s decision to close 50 schools only seems to get worse with time.
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Marvin Miller: champion of free markets
Remembering a left-of-center trade unionist who forced baseball’s right-of-center capitalists to live up to some semblance of the free-market ideologies they professed
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United generously returns TIF subsidy it was required to return anyway
Mayor Emanuel praises United for returning money it was required to return anyway
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An open apology to Sycamore, Illinois….
Got a call the other day from a faithful reader who pointed out that I made a mistake in last week’s column when I wrote that Sycamore is downstate….
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Unlovable losers
The latest scheme to spend public money on Wrigley Field is as bad as the team that plays there
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Mayor Emanuel does the TIF reform dance
But he’s not looking like the belle of the ball
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Couture for the Working Class: Fashion Designers Lend Style to Workers’ Uniform
Christian Lacroix is just one of many designers to create uniforms for the transportation industry.
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Transparency in Action
How a bill intended to expand the state Freedom of Information Act was bastardized to expand the mayor’s shadow budget
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Jobs at what price? How about $14,356 apiece?
United Airlines is set to get a $35.4 million handout from the city. Is anything in place to make sure taxpayers are getting their money’s worth?
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Funds and Games: Chicago 2016’s “Stewardship Report”
A new donor report claims transparency but obscures details on who’s paying for the Olympic bid. And then there’s the question of why they’re paying.
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Ready, Set, (Property Tax) Hike
How will Daley balance the 2010 budget? Prepare for higher property taxes—but not till after the 2016 Olympics are sited.
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Mr. Big Spender
The Central Loop tax increment financing district—the oldest and largest TIF of them all—came in with a boom and went out with a binge.
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Pretty soon you’re talking about real money
At this point, whenever I hear that a company is relocating its operations to the city, my first question is: how much are we paying them? Looks like another $25 million this time. At least it’s a better deal than MillerCoors: 2,800 relocated jobs for $25m ($9k per job) vs 325 relocated jobs for $6m […]