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Emanuel's approval slips, especially among black voters
Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces growing voter disenchantment, particularly among African-Americans, even as the overall number approving of his job performance holds steady at the halfway point of his first term, a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows. The survey...
Tags: Polls, Political Fundraising, Politics, Chicago Mayor, Barack Obama
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Emanuel's Chicagoness an issue to many
Rahm Emanuel is a North Shore-bred millionaire who trained as a ballet dancer and vacations in Vietnam. It's part of the back story to his hard-charging, ran-the-White-House public persona. It's also an image, perhaps, that has led a majority of...
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Baseball, Public Transportation, Chicago Cubs
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Parking meter boycott
Since the inception of the abominable parking meter deal brokered by former mayor Richard M. Daley, I am confident in saying that I have not used a single metered spot for the current duration of this ridiculous contract. And I will not use a metered spot...Tags: Rahm Emanuel
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Rauner out as chairman of Choose Chicago
Tribune reporterVenture capitalist Bruce Rauner, who is exploring a run for governor, has resigned as chairman of the board of Choose Chicago, the non-profit agency that serves as the city's convention and tourism bureau. Choose Chicago announced the exit. Rauner, a...Tags: Travel, Tour Operations Industry, Tourism and Leisure
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Perhaps Mayor Daley should have played this before striking the parking meter deal
Change of SubjectSim City, the latest version: And here's a screen grab from the version I remember playing. Even in that version, however, I'm sure a future-mortgaging rip-off like the parking-meter lease deal would have been a losing move.... -
Slain cop's son among those wounded in outbreak of violence
Tribune reporterAmong the more than dozen people wounded in this week's outbreak of violence was the son and namesake of a Chicago police officer slain outside his home nearly three years ago. “He’s doing OK,” said Pamela Bailey, widow of Officer...Tags: Murder, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Misdemeanors
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Norma Reyes, who served in Daley's Cabinet, dies at 56
Tribune reporterNorma Reyes, who served as Chicago's deputy chief of staff and commissioner of business affairs and consumer protection, died Monday. She was 56. Reyes worked as a Cook County assistant state’s attorney for nine years before becoming chief...Tags: Judges, Consumers, Carrie Austin, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers
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Norma Reyes: 1956-2013
Norma Reyes, deputy chief of staff under former Mayor Richard M. Daley a decade ago, was commissioner of the city's Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection from 2004 until 2011. Ms. Reyes, 56, was found dead in her Roscoe Village home...
Tags: Consumers, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Abusive Behavior, University of Notre Dame
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Rosemont, other Chicago suburbs ready to play ball with Cubs if team moves
Among those in the audience Wednesday morning when Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts raised the possibility of moving the team from Wrigley Field was one surprised White Sox fan: Rosemont Mayor Bradley Stephens. "I never expected Tom to come out with that,"...
Tags: George Halas, Wood Dale, Local Government, Illinois General Assembly, Thomas Ricketts
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Authors H-L
div.article div.byline p.date {display:none;} Susan Hahn Susan Hahn was editor of TriQuarterly for 14 years. She is author of a recent novel, “The Six Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter”; nine books of poetry, including “Self/Pity&...Tags: University of New Haven, Meatloaf, Authors, Poetry, Architecture
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Daley settles (not entirely) into life as a regular Chicagoan
He still gets up early. He could sleep in. He no longer has a big staff to deploy. No public crises nipping at his mind and time. He lives alone. He gets up at 6 anyway, and sets off to the gym before breakfast. He likes it there, feels safe in the...
Tags: China, Apple iPad, Tony Blair, Politics, Religion and Belief
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Let's review: Rachel Shteir and poor Chicago
Tribune criticAnd they said the gentle art of literary criticism was dead, confined to irrelevance. Not this week, gentle reader. Not in Chicago. Not in the heat of L'affaire de Shteir. What book review in the history of Chicago literature — heck, what recent...Tags: Politics, Chicago Mayor, Newspaper and Magazine, Rod Blagojevich, Roger Ebert
May 9, 2013
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May 7, 2013
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Apr 28, 2013
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Apr 26, 2013
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