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Emanuel gets split verdict on crime
Chicago voters are split on how Mayor Rahm Emanuel has handled the crime problem that was a high-profile focus of his second year in office, but they like the job Garry McCarthy is doing as the city's top cop, a Tribune/WGN-TV poll found. The mayor's...
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Murder, Garry McCarthy, Richard M. Daley
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Emanuel not getting the jobs done?
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has rolled out a stream of what he's billed as pro-business initiatives and stood with dozens of corporations making jobs announcements during his first two years in office, but a clear majority of voters in a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Barack Obama, Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Productivity
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Why won't Emanuel talk about Mayor He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named?
One subject that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel never touches involves a legendary political figure: Mayor He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named. So when I sat down for an interview with Emanuel last week to mark his two-year anniversary in the job, I asked: Why...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Local Government, Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor
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Educator of year candidates sought, and more
News briefs from the Tri-Cities. Geneva District 304 renames building to honor Coultrap The Geneva Community Unit School District 304 Board of Education has voted to change the name of the central office on Fourth Street to the Coultrap...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Travel, Hospitals and Clinics, Preventative Medicine, Environmental Issues
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Chicago and red light vendor: Breaking up is hard to do
Chicago's divorce with Redflex Traffic Systems is getting messy. In his hurry to sever ties with the red-light camera operator amid a burgeoning bribery scandal, Mayor Rahm Emanuel in February set a six-month deadline for Redflex to leave town after a...
Tags: Xerox Corporation, Photography Supplies and Services, Corporate Crime, Bribery, Local Elections
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Emanuel doubles down as year 2 ends
Surrounded by kids as he accepted money from a soft-drink company for nutrition and exercise classes, Rahm Emanuel was asked if it might make more sense for children's health to take a harder line on the sale of sugary drinks. "I'm here about making...
Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Illinois Supreme Court, Barack Obama, Howard Brookins, Political Fundraising
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Wrigley Field would make a great coliseum
If Cubs owner Tom Ricketts actually made good on his threat to leave Wrigley Field for a more baseball-friendly neighborhood, what would be the best use of the site at Clark and Addison? My plan? Flatten and grade it, then enclose it in cyclone fence and...
Tags: World Series, City Club of Chicago, Wrigley Field, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel
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School in Prague to be named after Mayor Cermak
Eighty years ago, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was assassinated, an anniversary that some, like Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, say does not receive enough attention. But on Thursday, a school in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, will remember Cermak by...
Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Assassinations, Politics, Local Elections, Chicago City Council
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The Geek speaks
Change of SubjectThe indispensable blogger on all things parking in Chicago didn't like what he saw out of City Hall yesterday: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel may have done the impossible. He may have actually made Chicago’s reviled parking meter lease deal even...... -
In our state, politicians are protected — but not the rest of us
Illinois — where politicians force law-abiding citizens to bring a bat to a gunfight. An amazing video released Wednesday that shows a Chicago shopkeeper fighting for his life should be a commercial for Second Amendment rights in this, the only...
Tags: Shootings, Criminals, Laws, Firearms, Rahm Emanuel
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Night games re-emerge as Wrigley sticking point, alderman says
Clout StreetLate last week, Ald. Thomas Tunney indicated he was optimistic the framework of a deal between City Hall and the Ricketts family to renovate Wrigley Field would be announced by Monday's home opener. On Wednesday, Wrigleyville's alderman found himself...Tags: Thomas Ricketts, Bill Murray, Wrigley Field, Major League Baseball, Rahm Emanuel
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CDOT tries coordination to ease road work headaches
Resurfacing a street or replacing a cracked sidewalk, then digging up the work a short time later to install new utility lines followed by making the paving repairs again — and perhaps even a third time — is a time-honored Chicago tradition....
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Transit Authority, Wrigley Field, Economy, Business and Finance, Chicago White Sox
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