May 19, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Rod Blagojevich. Her ballooning campaign fund has stirred talk about her intentions and raised questions about her father — a man often compared to a chess master for his ability to quietly outmaneuver rivals. After 42 years in the House, Michael ...
May 19, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Doing the project all at once - "ripping off the Band-Aid" - will save $75 million compared with doing it over four years, CTA President Forrest Claypool said. He said the repairs would shave as much as 20 minutes off the average commute. Trains on the ...
May 19, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
The review misstated the year and occasion on which a notorious remark by the former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, caught on an F.B.I. wiretap, was made public. The remark, “I've got this thing, and it's [expletive] golden,” which referred to the ...
May 19, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Sales and business management occupations showed some of the widest gender pay gaps, at 23 percent and 14 percent, respectively; while female and male nurses, engineers, social services professionals, and those in administrative assistance and science ...
May 19, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
And just another indication that once the Illinois General Assembly finishes its business — hopefully by the end of May as scheduled — get ready for an onslaught of campaign announcements. Job changes. There have been some changes in the legislative ...
May 19, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
With just days left before the Illinois General Assembly ends its regular session, activists are scrambling to get a gay marriage bill to the finish line. Supporters have racked up an impressive number of high-profile victories in recent months ...
May 19, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
CT CT-MET-KAREN-LEWIS-A_CTMAIN 0911 SR Karen Lewis, the fiery leader of the Chicago Teachers Union who led a strike last year and became a nationally known anti-school reform figure, has been elected to another three-year term as president.
May 19, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation on Saturday that doubles the maximum prison term — to six years — for anyone who uses social media and text messaging to organize violent “flash mobs” like those that have occurred on North Michigan Avenue's ...
May 19, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
“What I have proposed to the Board of Education will give Chicago's children opportunities that they simply did not have previously,” she wrote shortly after announcing her 54 recommendations. “Each 'welcoming school' will have the things that parents, ...
May 19, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
The funding will come from the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority's bond fund, which is supported by hotel tax revenue. The authority owns the pier and McCormick Place. The authority, known as McPier, had the extra funds because the city of ...
May 19, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
The Metropolitan Police Committee on Fiscal Affairs meets at 8 a.m. in the Building B Conference Center at Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters, 400 S. Martin Luther King Blvd. ... The Clark County Board of Commissioners jointly with the Clark ...
May 19, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Earlier in the week, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle blasted the school closing plan as detrimental to children in an interview published Thursday with the Chicago Sun-Times. Among the marchers Saturday was 19-year-old Raymond Duran.
May 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
J. Joseph Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade and head of the family that owns the Chicago Cubs, has given $12.85 million to super PACs. Ricketts ... The federation, boasting 12.2 million members, is made up of 57 national and international labor ...
May 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
The agreement will be brought to the Regional Development Administration for approval, guaranteeing that 30 percent of the hours worked at the Gary-Chicago airport expansion and at future development projects will go to Northwest Indiana residents ...
May 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Early in 2011, Candidate Rahm Emanuel warned Chicagoans that their City Hall had to fix its finances or risk entering into eternal rest. The distance from broke government to broken government, he observed, is short: Without restoring financial health ...
