Chicago Current archives
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
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
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
Just days after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told the city to get ready for a costly new arena for DePaul University basketball in the South Loop, he's now telling residents to prepare for a $115 million revamp of Navy Pier, the state's most popular ...
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 ...
May 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
While state law does not specifically prohibit a person from simultaneously holding two offices, the Illinois attorney general's office said it must weigh whether the offices are incompatible. Incompatibility arises when the duties of the two offices ...
May 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
This comprehensive program represents a significant step forward for Illinois as the General Assembly more generally considers amending its policies regarding cannabis in line with many other states throughout the country. If this bill becomes law ...
May 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Illinois's medical-marijuana bill, which Lou Lang has been patiently working through the legislature for years, passed the Senate today by a vote of 35-21 after barely scraping through the House. All that's left is the signature of Pat Quinn, whose ...
May 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
CHICAGO — The Chicago Teachers Union is launching a three-day march around the city in protest of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to close dozens of schools. It starts Saturday and organizers are billing it as a march for "education justice." Emanuel is ...
May 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, an often controversial figure who took on Mayor Rahm Emanuel by leading a seven-day strike last fall, was easily re-elected to a second three-year term Friday, according to unofficial results released by ...
May 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Chicago Public School teachers voted Friday to keep the union president who led them through a historic strike, rejecting a candidate from a coalition of parties that have run the union before. Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis easily won ...
May 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
The revamp 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. Navy Pier Inc. expects private investment to coincide with the ...
May 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
After seven site visits to water treatment and distribution centers, and a broad review of public water documents, the Grand Jury stated that the San Diego County Water Authority is on the right track with projects including water reclamation ...
May 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Former school teacher Toni Preckwinkle may have only been trying to get Rahm Emanuel's attention with a sharply worded rap on his knuckles on the front page of this newspaper Friday. But in a city still unaccustomed to anyone talking back to its mayor, ...
