“Little Village — this two-mile [stretch] — creates more sales [tax] revenue for the city of Chicago than any other place outside of the [real] Magnificent Mile,” Emanuel says.
“Little Village — this two-mile [stretch] — creates more sales [tax] revenue for the city of Chicago than any other place outside of the [real] Magnificent Mile,” Emanuel says.
State Supreme Court Justice Mary Jane Theis has raised more than $1 million and counts Mayor Rahm Emanuel among her backers. Her Democratic primary challenger, Aurelia Pucinski, has raised a little more than $30,000. Not surprisingly, Pucinski is trying to make the race a referendum on campaign cash.
After a goodbye tour that stretched from Ravenswood Manor neighborhood to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Rod Blagojevich turned, waved and disappeared yesterday behind the gates of a federal prison.
The head of family and community engagement efforts at the Chicago Public Schools is leaving amid a wave of complaints about the district's handling of school closings and turnarounds. Jamiko Rose last week, seven months into her tenure. From the beginning, she seemed to rankle community members with poorly organized parent meetings, some that began at 8 a.m. on weekdays.
Amid a crush of media and well-wishers, ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich left his Ravenswood Manor home on the North Side early this morning for a prison cell in Colorado.
The city hopes to collect an extra $2.5 million in back-debt on parking and red-light tickets by allowing lower initial payments when debt repayment plans are worked out.
Looking for a pen pal? Just in case you'd like to send Rod Blagojevich a letter in prison, the Sun-Times goes the extra mile on reader service, helpfully publishing his new address. May we suggest you ship him a get-out-of-jail file, baked into a pound cake with a crust that is f----ing golden?
In a tacit admission that Lollapalooza’s original long-term, tax-free deal with the city, crafted in part by Mayor Daley’s nephew Mark Vanecko, was inequitable and possibly corrupt, promoters have reached a new agreement with the Chicago Park District under which they finally will pay all of the city, county and state taxes levied on every other for-profit concert, entertainment and sporting event.
A panel of five business experts picked by the mayor would run a new fund aimed at directing private investment into public works projects and would not be subject to open meetings or open records laws, under an ordinance Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced Wednesday. The mayorl's aides dismissed the idea the arrangement would lead to the type of privatization deals that have been criticized for selling off city assets.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pushing a slightly modified version of his plan to blanket the city with speed cameras that includes scaled-back hours. The mayor is looking to attract votes from aldermen concerned about political backlash.
Several environmental groups are suing the government to curb pollution of the Mississippi River with fertilizers and other contaminants blamed with creating a "dead zone" the size of Massachusetts in the Gulf of Mexico. The case could have a big impact on Illinois and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. The state is the largest source of nitrogen and phosphorous to the basin through runoff from industrial scale corn and soybean production and the massive wastewater treatment programs from the MWRD.
The city faces a March 31 deadline to decide whether to retain a slot for Midway in the Federal Aviation Administration's airport privatization pilot program. The city has put off the decision several times since the original Midway deal fell through, receiving FAA deadline extensions. The Trib's running with a highly speculative article that says the deal may fly, but sources at City Hall are lukewarm on the idea.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is calling on the jail to stop a phone service that charges inmates $15 for 15-minute calls. Preckwinkle's office said the agreement for the $15 calls did not go through her office. She's recommending that the county discontinue what she calls a side deal which that Sheriff Tom Dart made with Securus Technologies, the company that has an exclusive deal at the jail.
The CTA today ended its 15-year-old ban on accepting advertising for alcoholic beverages in a move projected to generate an extra $3.2 million to the transit agency on its existing ad contract. The CTA board approved an ordinance amending the agency's advertising guidelines. It will allow advertising for beer, wine and liquor on CTA rail cars and at certain rail stations that are not near schools and other locations, officials said.
Alderman Proco Joe Moreno has introduced an ordinance to City Council, aimed at easing problems within the Chicago Police Department in handling transgender detainees.
