More than 100 CTA riders attended a public hearing Tuesday on a proposal billed as enhancing bus and train service. But most people who testified denounced the crowding-reduction strategy as a trick by transit officials to slash much-needed bus routes.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is joining an unusual coalition to protest decreased state funding for preschools.
It's a group of some 300 prosecutors and police officers, who say the proposed $55 million in preschool savings will lead to increased crime and eventually cost taxpayers $200 million.
During much of that time the paper has been eerily silent about how it's going to prop up sagging circulation and profits, or if that's even a realistic goal. Read more...
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.
A federal judge yesterday struck down two pieces of a 2009 Illinois law designed to cap campaign contributions, a ruling one government watchdog said will “open the door to a risk of corruption.” U.S. District Judge Marvin Aspen sided with Personal PAC, the abortion-rights group that argued the state campaign-finance law violated its free-speech protections in the U.S. Constitution.
