- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Sep 9, 2004
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Rod Gives 'Em the Shaft, Part II
Another old pal of the governor is denied a job merely because he's a felon.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Sep 2, 2004
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Go Home and Play!
The neighborhood parks have never looked better, but we're paying for it in staff and program cuts.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Aug 26, 2004
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The Price of Milk in East Village
Alderman Manny Flores is on the hot seat again, this time over a giant Dominick's that would replace Edmar Foods.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Aug 19, 2004
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No Law Against That
John Vasilopulos says he doesn't dislike his neighbors because they're gay. He just thinks they're jerks.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Aug 12, 2004
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Don't Ask, Wont Tell; Union Park Gets Its Weight Room
The Park District was only tring to clean up a toxic playlot, but bad communication poisoned relations with the neighbors.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Aug 5, 2004
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How to Kill an Ordinance, One Vote at a Time; There's Mold in Them Thar Walls
Activists are pressuring the City Council to set aside housing for the poor. But aldermen take their orders from a higher authority.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Jul 29, 2004
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Let Them Lift Cake
The Park District can't afford $800 worth of equipment to keep a west-side weight room open? That's less than the price of a plate at last week's Millennium Park fund-raiser.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Jul 22, 2004
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There Goes Another School
Daley says he wants more of them--so why's the city tearing this one down?
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Jul 15, 2004
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Public Promises, Private Cuts
While Mayor Daley trumpets this year's school fixes, he's quietly undoing last year's.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Jul 8, 2004
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Think You're Safe From the Boot? Think Again.; Suckered on the South Side
You may still be boot eligible even if you no longer have three unpaid parking tickets.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Jul 1, 2004
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Maxwell Street, the Musical; So Long, Sweet Caroline
The neoghborhood's gone, but a multimedia cottage industry has grown up to ensure it won't be forgotten.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Jun 24, 2004
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The Wrong Kind of Activist; Blago Blows It
Why the city didn't want the wiseacres of Break the Gridlock at its pro-bike rally.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Jun 17, 2004
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School's Out Forever
Certain poor black schools are sitting on some mighty promising real estate. How convenient that enrollment's down too.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Jun 10, 2004
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Try City Hall, Sherlock
The sheriff's guys can't track down an alderman?
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Jun 3, 2004
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When Aldermen Attack
Without Daley telling them how to vote on the Wal-Mart issue, the aldermen began to turn on each other.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, May 20, 2004
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Stone Rocks the Boat; Somebody's Gonna Be Mad
A Daley stalwart rebels. Could it be the influence of his son the talk-show host?
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Apr 22, 2004
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Whole Lot of Nothing
This sunken eyesore is hard to miss--unless, apparently, you're an alderman who could do something about it.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Apr 15, 2004
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Fighting Chances
Andra Medea wrote the book on how to deal with bullies.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Apr 1, 2004
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Gas Attack
Citizens Utility Board researcher David Kolata dug through thousands of dull documents to find what may be explosive evidence of wrongdoing at Peoples Energy.
- News & Features, Neighborhood News, Mar 25, 2004
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Shot in the Dark
It's been nearly a year since Barry Cunnane was inexplicably gunned down, but his friends haven't given up on finding the killer.
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