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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: Interior Policy, White House, Heads of State, Politics, Barack Obama
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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: Assault, Education, Legal Services, Services and Shopping, Chicago Public Library
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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: DePaul University, Interior Policy, Politics, Super Bowl, Regional Authority
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As Cabrini's row houses empty, the poor are shifted around the city
A moving man knocked on Jacqueline Pratt's row house door Tuesday to see if she was ready to leave the ghost town. "I'm not rushing you," the mover said, and that was good because even though this week is the exit deadline, she wasn't ready. Outside 904...
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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: Politics, Personal Income, Public Housing, Rental Service, Social Issues
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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: Germany, YMCA, Emergency Incidents, Lifestyle and Leisure, Explosions
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Richard Nixon, Personal Income, Politics, Interior Policy
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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, Architecture, Interior Policy, Jens Jensen, Public Housing
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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, Teaching and Learning, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Criminals
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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: David Dreier, Christopher Stevens, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tea Party Movement
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Coconut Creek, Margate, Public Housing, Rental Service
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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: The Supremes (music group), Politics, Illegal Immigrants, Labor Legislation, Migration
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