edited by: Douglas Welch,
Illinois Editor
Is Mayor Daley acting a little defensive these days or what? During a Tuesday press conference, he took a jab at the aldermen who are opposing his $35 million property tax rebate gimmick, adding: "So the politicians are saying: increase your property taxes and increase your income tax. Unbelievable! It seems" [...]
Pity Joe Moore. He's the flabby, limp tool of an alderman in Chicago, lord of the 49th Ward on the far northeast side of town, tucked just under Evanston. Moore, best known for his opposition to foie gras, taking massive amounts of money from SEIU, and' [...]
John Arrington is a GOP (Republican) candidate for US Senate in 2010. He was spotted on the Dan Ryan L Tuesday morning getting on at 79th and then getting off at Garfield. If you want to know about his background he was formerly an Alderman in Harvey, [...]
Nebraska and 37 other states are supporting a challenge to Chicago’s ban on handguns.
The U.S. Supreme Court said earlier this fall that it would hear the lawsuit four people filed challenging the city ban.
One of the plaintiffs, Otis McDonald of [...]
Last week, we reported on Chicago Ald. Joe Moore's (49th Ward) frustration with Mayor Daley's gambit to yank $35 million from a reserve fund created by the parking meter lease to refund some taxpayers between $25 and $200 on their property tax bills. On the floor Wednesday, Moore suggested that while the' [...]
The Sun-Times is reporting today that at least 70 "top-paid hires from the Blagojevich era" remain in their state jobs "despite coming under scrutiny in a federal investigation of what U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald termed in 2006 were 'very serious allegations of endemic hiring fraud'" [...]
from the Hughes for U.S. Senate campaign
Last week during a trip to Washington D.C. Patrick Hughes received commitments from Richard Perle and Amir Fakhravar to serve as foreign policy advisors to his campaign.
Richard Perle served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan and [...]
Last week, we credited 42nd Ward Ald. Brenden Reilly for his opposition to the proposed creation of a sixth tax increment financing (TIF) district in his booming downtown ward. Today, the Tribune editorial board chimed in, calling out Mayor Daley for attempting to exploit a legitimate economic tool to [...]
Here's a roundup of the latest happenings in the Democratic primary for Cook County Board President:
Preckwinkle's Platform
Ald. Toni Preckwinkle (4th Ward) attempted to steer the campaign back to the issues on Thursday, rolling out a 12-point plan for reforming county government. Crain's Greg Hinz points out that the wonkish' [...]
Below is just a portion of a great editorial written by the Omaha World-Herald. It has one person in mind, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE).
The Windy City edition of the New York Times debuted today, featuring an article on the controversial parking meter lease from veteran City Hall reporter Dan Mihalopoulos, now with the Chicago News Cooperative.
In his report, Mihalopoulos digs into the books of Chicago Parking Meters LLC, the private company that now controls the [...]
Take a look at this headline from today's Daily Herald:
Reading that, you might guess that the west suburban town of about 150,000 passed a referendum opposing an income tax increase in Illinois. Or perhaps someone polled Naperville residents' on the various tax hike proposals being discussed at the state level. Well, [...]
According to the Daily Herald, both the Green Party and the Democrat Party are working to remove Richard B. Mayers - an admitted anti-Semite - from the ballot in February. Not surprising that someone who once made a Nazi salute in a Lake County court would find a home [...]
