Posts by Peter Sachs

After months of unexplained delays, Gov. Pat Quinn last week named four new members to Chicago State University’s board of trustees.

The four new members are Lisa Morrison Butler, who runs City Year Chicago; Gary Rozier, a vice president at Ariel Investments; Julie Samuels, the Openlands Project’s outreach coordinator; and Zaldwaynaka Scott, an attorney and executive inspector general under former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

But one thing that’s missing, faculty and other observers at CSU say, is an alumni presence. Read more...

As prosecutors describe it, the abrupt shutdown and looting of Republic Windows and Doors — which put 200 people out of work last December — was in fact part of a scheme nearly a year in the making.

But when the laid-off workers staged a sit-in at the factory for their lost wages, they also threw a wrench in those plans.

Richard Gillman, the former president of the company, was arrested in early September on a slew of felony charges and is slated to be formally arraigned later this month. Read more...

 

Earlier this year, as the City Colleges pondered how to trim expenses and balance its budget – an exercise that eventually lead to 58 layoffs – technicians at Kennedy-King College were installing a $166,000 robotic camera system in the upscale Sikia Restaurant.

The project, pushed by then-Chancellor Wayne Watson since mid-2008, culminated in an invite-only dinner in May that featured singer Terisa Griffin – and which was broadcast live on WYCC, the district’s PBS station. Read more...