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Chicago man starts petition drive against new Ventra fare-payment card
Springlike weather is arriving late this year, but it's shaping up to be a long, hot summer for the Chicago Transit Authority. CTA President Forrest Claypool and his team will manage two difficult projects that are already unpopular with many riders...
Tags: Phil Collins, Personal Income, Forrest Claypool, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Tribune
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Genson, Gillespie law partnership ends
Tribune reporterTwo of the best known criminal-defense lawyers in Chicago have split up their longtime partnership. Edward Genson and Terence Gillespie, partners since 1984, formally broke ties months ago, confirmed Genson, calling the breakup amicable. "We decided...Tags: R. Kelly, Crime, Law and Justice, Defendants, Justice System, Lawyers
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No blubbering from Beavers despite guilty verdict
Just after Bill Beavers left the federal courtroom guilty on all counts — but before he'd go downstairs to play the defiant old-school Chicago pol for the TV cameras — he gave me a quiet shrug. We were standing in the corridor Thursday...
Tags: South Chicago, Cook County Government, Justice System, Political Corruption, Lawyers
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Court: City inspector may not subpoena city documents
Tribune reporterThe state’s highest court today dealt city Inspector General Joseph Ferguson a setback in his legal battle to get unfettered access to city documents. In a ruling released this morning, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Ferguson&...Tags: Career and Workplace, Rahm Emanuel, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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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: Rahm Emanuel, Arts and Culture, Chicago Loop, Government, Broken Nose
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Warnings about Redflex go back years
Top officials in Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration were warned six years ago about preferential treatment in Chicago's red-light camera contract, a deal now embroiled in a federal corruption investigation of an alleged $2 million bribery scheme at...
Tags: Michael Madigan, Planning Inquiries, Rahm Emanuel, Michael Bilandic, Local Government
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Trib Nation responds to one Chicagoan's view of it for an East Coast paper
Boy, Trib Nation had a few things to say about DePaul Professor Rachel Shteir's Sunday Book Review article on Chicago, drawn from three books written by people from here, and which appeared this week in The New York Times. She reviewed "Golden," by...
Tags: Magnificent Mile, Hadiya Pendleton, Chicago Tribune, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama
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Emanuel's trade: recycling carts for soft drink plugs
Clout StreetMayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday announced his latest partnership with Coca-Cola: The soft drink giant will pay for 50,000 blue recycling carts for Chicago homes and in return gets to put images of Coke products on the lids of the familiar bins. Emanuel tied...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Earth Day, Diabetes, Local Government, Coca-Cola
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Selling off our assets not that far-fetched
timr@herald-mail.comPeople in Washington County should concern themselves with the following passage from the Chicago Tribune, which appeared two days after Christmas: “In an annual ritual that has become as predictable if not as joyous as a New Year’s Eve...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Photography and Video, Chicago Loop, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Services and Shopping
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Obama library, casino among options for former Reese site
A casino-entertainment complex, a major convention hotel and a Barack Obama presidential library are being floated as possible anchors for a mixed-use development of the former Michael Reese Hospital site on the Near South Side. The scenarios were...Tags: Near South Side, Libraries, Barack Obama, Arts and Culture, William D. Burns
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Roger Ebert: Quintessential Chicagoan
When Anthony Bourdain was in town last summer taping a Chicago-themed episode of his Travel Channel show “The Layover,” he asked various people, including me, to name the quintessential Chicagoan, and a consensus quickly emerged. The...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Jennifer Hudson, Twitter, Inc., Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (movie), Kanye West
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10 things you might not know about razed Chicago
Chicago Tribune reportersEver since the Great Fire of 1871, a cycle of destruction and rebuilding has been central to the Chicago story. This month, Northwestern University secured a permit to tear down Prentice Hospital so that it can build a biomedical research facility. Also...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Arts and Culture, L (movie), Art Institute of Chicago, Al Capone
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