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Obama friend to be White House aide
The Swampby Christi Parsons Valerie Jarrett, a prominent Chicago business and political figure and influential member of Barack Obama's inner circle, is poised to play a crucial role in the White House as a public liaison and senior aide to the......Tags: Richard M. Daley, White House, Barack Obama, Heads of State, Valerie Jarrett
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Chicagoan Tina Tchen going to Obama WH
The Swampby Christi Parsons and John McCormick A prominent Chicago lawyer who was one of Barack Obama's top fundraisers will be appointed to run the Office of Public Liaison for the White House, the Tribune has learned. The formal appointment of......Tags: Crimes, White House, Government, Local Government, Assault
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Rahm Emanuel back to Congress?
The Swampby John McCormick and Dan Mihalopoulos White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is interested in potentially returning to Chicago someday to reclaim the congressional seat he held until a month ago, a candidate running to replace him said Sunday.......Tags: Midway Airport, Chicago Real Estate, Franklin Park, Government, National Government
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Report challenges tie between housing vouchers, crime
Renters' use of housing choice vouchers, more commonly known as Section 8 vouchers, long has worried communities that the arrival of voucher-holding tenants in a neighborhood will lead to crime and, eventually, lower property values. That's not true,...Tags: New York University, Personal Income, Politics, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice
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Housing project preserves quality in time of tear-down
Jonathan Fine was walking through the old housing project looking for the right words. Georgian art deco fusion? Georgian eclectic with art deco thrown in? Colonial Revival? Whatever the right words are, they're not ones typically associated with...
Tags: Politics, Jens Jensen, Interior Policy, Architecture, Arts and Culture
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Forcing landlords to accept vouchers won't help the poor
Human nature frequently disproves theories. Conventional wisdom, for example, says that open office space plans with workers grouped like cattle encourage creativity and collaboration. But study after study shows that people are more inventive, productive...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Poverty, Rental Service, Crime, Law and Justice, Medicaid
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YMCA manager gets 2nd chance to help aging veteran see World War II memorial
About eight years ago, Sam Rea planned to take his father to see the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. He thought the trip would be an opportunity to honor his dad, but also a chance to bond and get answers to questions he'd always wanted...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Trips and Vacations, Human Interest, World War I (1914-1918), Explosions
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Chicago's black legal community meets to stem youth violence
Herschella Conyers is an attorney who, along with several judges, recently invited a bunch of people to the University of Chicago to talk about violence and the growing number of teens getting entangled in the criminal justice system. Typically, these...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Mental Health, Criminals, Health, Justice System
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How She Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The O-bomb-a
So Rep. Jeff Landry is running for re-election and the Times Picayune’s constitutionally-hapless doyenne has a deadline for her editorial, mix the two and voila! Say hello to Stephanie Grace’s, graceless embrace1 of President Obama’s...
Tags: Christopher Stevens, Barack Obama, David Dreier, Jeff Landry, Tea Party Movement
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Chris Dufresne's look at the season's college football bowl games
ESPN's "Octomom" family of networks hopes you enjoy this year's cavalcade of commercials and center snaps as it furiously tries to secure the two games it doesn't broadcast. Conspicuously missing from the lineup is Ohio State (12-0) vs. Louisiana Tech...
Tags: USC Trojans, Syracuse Orange, Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, ESPNU (tv network), Arizona Wildcats
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When do banks pay fees for condos in foreclosure?
Does a bank have to pay maintenance fees on a property in foreclosure? Is there any reason a condominium community shouldn't accept Section 8 tenants? These are questions from Sun Sentinel readers. And we have answers with help from South Florida...Tags: Margate, Coconut Creek, Rental Service, Crime, Law and Justice, Public Housing
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Arizona immigration decision is not split; the xenophobes lost, period
No two individuals have ever been more polarized on the issue of state immigration laws than Congressman Lou Barletta, R-11th District, and Allentown City Council President Julio Guridy. Both politicians, however, found something to like in the U.S....
Tags: Employment, Migration, Career and Workplace, Lou Barletta, Crime, Law and Justice
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