Sun-Times/
Businesses that suffer losses during the upcoming NATO and G-8 summits because they’re located within the “inner-most” security perimeter could be in line for financial compensation. Mayor Rahm Emanuel was asked Thursday whether businesses located within the inner-most security perimeter will have a process to recover lost profits incurred during the May 19-21 events at McCormick Place. “The [NATO and G-8] Host Committee is working on it," he said.
Related:
- City May Pay Businesses For Summit Costs [Fox Chicago]
- Emanuel says some businesses may get reimbursed for G-8, NATO summits [Chicago Tribune]
Sun-Times/
Civil courtrooms at the Daley Center — part of the nation’s second-largest court system — could be closed for security reasons in the days surrounding the NATO and G-8 meetings, officials said Wednesday.
There's an old saying in the journalism business: A newspaper is a mirror of the community it serves. Usually this old saw is meant to imply that strong investigative reporting can force a community to notice its warts (or aldermen) and take action to remove them.
But for me, the saying has come to mean something else—that you can tell a lot about a city's civic health by the way it supports, or fails to support, news organizations that engage in public accountability reporting. Read more...
Chicago Tribune/
Former McDonald's Corp. top executive Jack Greenberg has been selected by Mayor Rahm Emanuel as the new chairman of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, the state-city agency that owns McCormick Place and Navy Pier.
Chicago Sun-Times/
Chicago City Council meetings could get a whole lot tamer — and less democratic — if four powerful committee chairmen have their way. Aldermen Edward M. Burke (14th), Ray Suarez (31st), Richard Mell (33rd) and Carrie Austin (34th) want to change the City Council rules to prohibit the audience in attendance at Council meetings from expressing their excitement or displeasure with the proceedings.
