- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 13, 2011
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The parking meter deal: still more hosing to come
The street parking sell off continues to eat at Chicagoans' wallets.
- News & Features, Chicago Reader at Forty, Oct 6, 2011
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2009
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 7, 2011
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Rahm Emanuel's shifting views of the parking meter deal
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 19, 2010
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The Cover of the Rolling Stone
The parking meter deal continues to live in infamy, this time in Rolling Stone.
- News & Features, Politics, Jun 10, 2010
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Privatize Public Transit?
Chicago's tried it before. Here's how that went.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 12, 2010
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Meter Deal Opponent Takes Her Own Show on the Road
Chicago alderman Leslie Hairston, an opponent of the parking meter lease deal, has some advice for Pittsburgh officials considering a lease of their own parking system.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 9, 2010
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Spreading the privatization gospel
Other cities continue to consider following Chicago's lead in privatizing their parking systems—with the help of some of the same firms that engineered the deal here.
- News & Features, Feature, Dec 10, 2009
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FAIL: The Reader's Parking Meter Investigation
Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke's report on the privatization of Chicago's parking meters, how the deal went down, and its fallout
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 15, 2009
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Mayors say the darndest things...
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 11, 2009
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IVI-IPO parking meter lawsuit will proceed
- News & Features, Politics, Sep 10, 2009
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 25, 2009
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"Totally screwed up"
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 20, 2009
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Mick Dumke vs. Bernard Stone
- Blogs, Bleader, May 29, 2009
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Hands on the parking meter handoff
A spokesman for Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan says her office has opened an investigation into the "transaction and implementation of the new parking meter system."
- News & Features, Politics, May 21, 2009
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FAIL, Part Two: One BILLION Dollars!
New evidence suggests Chicago leased out its parking meters for a fraction of what they’re worth.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 18, 2009
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Aldermen order city lawyers to explore canceling the parking meter deal
Aldermen now say they want to terminate the parking meter lease contract--as soon as they can get a look at it. We've posted it here for their (and your) convenience.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 18, 2009
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Parking Meters -- The Easy Version
Here's how badly we got screwed on Mayor Daley's harebrained parking meter deal.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 20, 2009
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Aldermen call for hearings on the parking meter deal
Citing reporting by the Reader, five aldermen call for hearings into how the city's parking meter lease deal went down.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 13, 2009
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A few questions answered, a few still open
The city produces a few more answers to our questions about the parking meter lease deal that has residents up in arms.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 26, 2009
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What's going down
In the news: with a little federal help, cleaner cars and unionized jobs could come to Illinois, and Mayor Daley suggests the Obama administration follow his lead on privatization.
