- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 4, 2011
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Rahm Emanuel—the mayor's got jokes
Rahm Emanuel can be funny.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 1, 2011
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It might feel like 105 degrees today
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 29, 2011
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Make way for ducklings
- Best of Chicago, City Life, Jun 23, 2011
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Best city council committee for gauging how the council actually works
Public Safety
- News & Features, Politics, May 26, 2011
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The 20 months that made Mayor Emanuel
Our interactive time line shows how Rahm became the Man on Five
- News & Features, Politics, May 19, 2011
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In Chicago City Council, aldermen sweat the small stuff
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, May 12, 2011
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Twilight zoning in the 43rd Ward
- News & Features, Politics, Apr 7, 2011
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Racial Migration in the Strangest Locations
U.S. Census data show historically black wards growing increasingly white.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 2, 2009
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It's All My Fault
Mayor Daley blows his parking-meter wad on one budget. Is he just trying to prove the Reader wrong?
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 30, 2009
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Pay up, suckers
How'd the big boys do? An analysis of what public officials have to pay in property taxes.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 2, 2009
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Better late than never
Aldermen hold another hearing on the parking meter lease deal. Their conclusion: it still stinks.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 1, 2009
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Alderman Burke brings out the dead
The dean of the City Council finds waste in the budget but no time to cut it.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 26, 2009
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When the going gets tough
The city is facing a huge budget gap, more cuts are on the way, and aldermen are acting funny.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 4, 2009
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Off to see the wizard
Aldermen introduce another proposal to slow down approval of privatization agreements--and to cover their rears for agreeing to the parking meter deal. But not everyone's buying this one.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 1, 2009
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"Some mistakes were made"
In its latest quest for political cover, the City Council discusses considering privatization deals BEFORE they pass--and debates the parking meter lease it approved six months ago.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 15, 2009
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The parking meter lease is looking worse and worse
New evidence suggests the taxpayers were hosed out of billions of dollars in the parking meter deal we laid out here last month. And the city still won't tell us how it determined what the deal was worth.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 13, 2009
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Aldermen: mad as hell and not going to take it anymore (without bitching a little first)
More and more aldermen say they're frustrated with the way the Daley administration does business. Some even think somebody should do something about it. Meanwhile, the Dumpster tax has passed.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 13, 2009
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Soil and rubble, toil and trouble
Aldermen advance an ordinance allowing the reuse of soil and rubble, but don't blame them if anything's wrong with it.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 8, 2009
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The BPA baby-bottle ban gets another push
Chicago may become the first big city to ban baby products with the chemical BPA.
