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News & Features, Politics, Jul 22, 2010
Why Can't Chicago Recycle?

A world-class city, a "green" mayor—what's the problem? Insiders say the city's budget woes are only part of the story.
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Politics, recycling, recycling bins, blue carts, Department of Environment, waste, Mike Nowak, Chicago Recycling Coalition, Climate Action Plan, blue bags, Michael Picardi, Streets and Sanitation, Joe Moore, Mayor Daley, Richard M. Daley, Scott Waguespack, City Council, blue cart program, blue bag program, National Solid Wastes Management Association, Tom Allen, Tom Byrne, Fran Spielman, Matt Smith, Chicago Sun-Times, privatization, Chicago High Density Residential and Commercial Source Reduction and Recycling Ordinance, Burke-Hansen Ordinance, Helen Shiller, 46th Ward, scavengers, Dina Demetrio

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News & Features, Politics, Jul 22, 2010
The Head Cheerleaders

What was on the agenda when schools CEO Ron Huberman met with two key mayoral allies and a top Daley political adviser?
- by Ben Joravsky

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News & Features, Politics, Jul 15, 2010
You Can Buy Love

Who paid pro-Walmart demonstrators $100 apiece?
- by Max Brooks
- Tags: Politics, Walmart, Anthony Beale, Wal-Mart, TWO, The Woodlawn Organization, Georgette Greenlee-Finney, Leon Finney Jr., Aaron Garel

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News & Features, Politics, Jul 1, 2010
The Long Middle Finger of the Law

Mark Weinberg, who's sued the city on behalf of panhandlers and public urinators, is pissed off about a parking ticket.
- by Ben Joravsky

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 1, 2010
City Council Poised to Pass Still-Unseen Gun Legislation By Friday

Plans are afoot for the Chicago City Council to pass a new gun-control ordinance, even though aldermen haven't even seen it yet.
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Politics, Clout City, News, Mayor Richard M. Daley, gun ban, handgun ban, gun control, Richard Mell, Freddrenna Lyle, Ray Suarez, Brian Doherty, Supreme Court, Mara Georges

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News & Features, Politics, Jun 17, 2010
The Armies Are Gathering

Now that the word's out about how TIFs suck money away from the schools, parents are rallying to raid the kitty.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, Mayor Daley, TIF, TIFs, tax increment financing, Raise Your Hand coalition, Jonathan Goldman, Robert Fioretti, Tom Allen, Sweet Home Chicago, Ron Huberman, Pat Quinn, Arne Duncan, Diana Ferguson, Alicia Winckler, Jerome Goudelock

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News & Features, Politics, Jun 10, 2010
Privatize Public Transit?

Chicago's tried it before. Here's how that went.
- by Robert Loerzel
- Tags: Politics, Carter H. Harrison II, streetcars, City Hall, Chicago Transit: An Illustrated History, Mayor John Haines, Internal Improvements Act of 1837, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, William Butler Ogden, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, North Chicago City Railway Company, Richard Oglesby, Alexander McCoy, Gray Wolves, Charles Tyson Yerkes, Clarence Darrow, John Peter Altgeld, Henry Demarest Lloyd, Ogden Gas Company, People's Gas, Chicago Edison, ComEd, Mayfair Improvement Club, Richard Yates, Billy Lorimer, Chicago City Railway, Illinois Public Utilities Commission, Samuel Insull, CTA, Richard M. Daley, Chicago Skyway, Chicago Parking Meters, LAZ, Morgan Stanley

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News & Features, Politics, Jun 10, 2010
The Battle Before the War

Before the teachers' union can fight layoffs and pay cuts, it has to resolve an internal struggle.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Chicago Teachers Union, CTU, Mayor Daley, Chicago Public Schools, Ron Huberman, Ron Huberman, Marilyn Stewart, Karen Lewis, King College Prep, United Progressive Caucus, Robert Healey, Jacqueline Vaughn, Thomas Reece, Debbie Lynch, CORE, Caucus of Rank and File Educators, Jackson Potter, FOIA, TIF

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News & Features, Politics, Jun 3, 2010
The Police Torture Scandal: A Who's Who

1. The Ringleader: Jon Burge
- by John Conroy

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News & Features, Politics, Jun 3, 2010
Learning to Say No

Mayor Daley's (mis)use of tax increment financing to pay for school construction inspires a minirevolt in City Council
- by Ben Joravsky

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News & Features, Politics, Jun 3, 2010
Pissed Off

When Paul Radoy complained to Mayor Daley of crumbling infrastructure in North Lawndale, the mayor took the opportunity to hit the men's room. Nine months later, little has changed in the neighborhood.
- by Max Brooks

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News & Features, Politics, May 27, 2010
Less Is More at CPS

Schools CEO Ron Huberman says he's cut 50 administrators from the central office. But records show he's added almost as many—at higher salaries.
- by Ben Joravsky

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News & Features, Politics, May 27, 2010
How to Distract a Press Corps

Mayor Daley's incendiary comments did just what they were probably meant to: bury the lead.
- by Mick Dumke

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News & Features, Politics, May 20, 2010
The Shadow Budget: Who Wins in Daley's TIF Game

The economic development funds are supposed to go to neighborhoods that need it. Guess where they're really going. For the first time ever: how the city spends TIF funds, ward by ward
- by Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, TIFs, tax-increment fiancing, TIF map, West Englewood, 15th Ward, 41st Ward, Mayor Daley, Richard M. Daley, Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, Bronzeville TIF, 2nd Ward, 3rd Ward, 4th Ward, Chatham, Beverly, Lakeview, Rogers Park, Loop, 27th Ward, 42nd Ward, Gold Coast, Garfield Park, City Council, City Hall, Anthony Beale, 9th Ward, Roseland, Robert Fioretti, Bob Fioretti, Wicker Park, Lincoln Park, Chicago Riverwalk, Brendan Reilly, Isaac Carothers, 29th Ward, Hillary Rodham Clinton Park, Prairie Avenue Historic District, Harpo Studios, MillerCoors, 250 S. Wacker, Chicago Christian Industrial League, New Ritz, Kennedy-King College, Walmart, Walter Burnett, 27th Ward, 60th and Western TIF district, West Englewood, Chicago Lawn, Near West TIF District, Greektown, 14th Ward, Ed Burke, 32nd Ward, Roscoe Village, Wicker Park, 32nd Ward, Scott Waguespack, 38th Ward, Tom Allen, 22nd Ward, Rick Munoz, shadow budget, TIF shadow budget

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News & Features, Politics, May 20, 2010
Transparency’s a Big Joke

Mayor Daley has a laugh at reporters' expense, but that’s not who's losing out.
- by Mick Dumke

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News & Features, Politics, May 6, 2010
Check the Thermostat in Hell

Alderman Mell invites a certain Reader columnist to come out and talk TIFs.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Richard Mell, Dick Mell, 33rd Ward, zoning advisory board, Monique Bond, CPS, Chicago Public Schools, City Hall, TIF, tax-increment financing, Deb Mell, The ABC's of TIF, Robert Fioretti, Mayor Daley, Harry Osterman, John Fritchey, Vilma Colom, 35th Ward, 2nd Ward, Rod Blagojevich, Department of Community Development

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News & Features, Politics, May 6, 2010
The Only Option?

Alderman Anthony Beale says Walmart is the only retailer interested in Pullman. But more union-friendly retailers say nobody asked them.
- by Hunter Clauss
- Tags: Politics, Pullman, Wal-Mart, Walmart, Anthony Beale, 9th Ward, Chicago Plan Commission, George Pullman, Jewel-Osco, Dominick's, Target, Costco, Ikea, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 881

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A world-class city, a "green" mayor—what's the problem? Insiders say the city's budget woes are only part of the story.

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What was on the agenda when schools CEO Ron Huberman met with two key mayoral allies and a top Daley political adviser?

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Who paid pro-Walmart demonstrators $100 apiece?

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How to interpret the inspector general's sample audit of the Central Loop honeypot

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Aldermen rush through a gun-control law they've barely read to replace a gun-control law nobody seems to have enforced. Who really benefits? Mayor Daley.

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A sop to angry parents—and a slap at the teachers' union

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Mark Weinberg, who's sued the city on behalf of panhandlers and public urinators, is pissed off about a parking ticket.

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Plans are afoot for the Chicago City Council to pass a new gun-control ordinance, even though aldermen haven't even seen it yet.

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Now that the word's out about how TIFs suck money away from the schools, parents are rallying to raid the kitty.

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Chicago's tried it before. Here's how that went.

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Before the teachers' union can fight layoffs and pay cuts, it has to resolve an internal struggle.

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1. The Ringleader: Jon Burge

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Mayor Daley's (mis)use of tax increment financing to pay for school construction inspires a minirevolt in City Council

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When Paul Radoy complained to Mayor Daley of crumbling infrastructure in North Lawndale, the mayor took the opportunity to hit the men's room. Nine months later, little has changed in the neighborhood.

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Schools CEO Ron Huberman says he's cut 50 administrators from the central office. But records show he's added almost as many—at higher salaries.

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Mayor Daley's incendiary comments did just what they were probably meant to: bury the lead.

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The economic development funds are supposed to go to neighborhoods that need it. Guess where they're really going. For the first time ever: how the city spends TIF funds, ward by ward

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Mayor Daley has a laugh at reporters' expense, but that’s not who's losing out.

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Alderman Mell invites a certain Reader columnist to come out and talk TIFs.

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Alderman Anthony Beale says Walmart is the only retailer interested in Pullman. But more union-friendly retailers say nobody asked them.

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