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• Shocker: Chicago City Council to Attack Private Property Rights

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  Over-regulation by government is nothing new in the City of Chicago. After all, this is the city that went out of its way to do the vital people’s business of banning foie gras from the menus of its restaurants. So is it any surprise that some [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:55am EST
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• Daley will pay drivers OT this winter to plow side streets after city failed to attract private company for the work

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  Posted by John Byrne at 1:30 p.m.; updated at 5:01 p.m. with overtime information The city of Chicago will pay Streets and Sanitation snowplow drivers overtime this winter after failing to find a private firm to clear side streets. In...

  
  

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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:26pm EST
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• 24-7 Booting

  —Second City Cop

  From TheExpiredMeter.com:
  

  Scofflaws, hide your cars.

  Because the City of Chicago, without any advance public warning, is literally, clamping down on motorists once again.

  In an effort to catch more cars eligible for the dreaded Denver boot, and convince their owners to cough up the dough to pay off [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:02am EST
  

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• LEN: Fix Wilson Yard Lawsuit Takes A Recess

  —Uptown Update

  

  Fix Wilson Yard Shelves Lawsuit … But Keeps the Door Open

  By LORRAINE SWANSON, Editor

  Blaming limited financial resources, Fix Wilson Yard withdrew its lawsuit against the City of Chicago and a private developer on Thursday, putting further litigation on hold for one year.

  [...] Fix Wilson [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:21am EST
  

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• 68% Of Property Taxes To Wilson Yard TIF? That's Low

  —Uptown Update

  
  

  A reader writes:

  From my PIN, but would love to do a compare/contrast:

  COUNTY OF COOK 2.3786534110%
  FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT OF COOK COUNTY 0.2923164433%CITY OF CHICAGO 5.3190129288%CITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARY FUND 0.5846328866%CITY OF CHICAGO SCHOOL BLDG & IMP FUND 0.6706083111%CITY OF CHICAGO SPECIAL SERVICE AREA #34 [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:39pm EST
  

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• Fix Wilson Yard Lawsuit Update

  —Uptown Update

  Mark your calendar! On Thursday, November 5, Fix Wilson Yard will host a progress update on its groundbreaking lawsuit against the City of Chicago and the Wilson Yard Developer at Holiday Club.
  Hear a summary of the legal causes of action in Fix Wilson Yard's amended [...]

  Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:21pm EST
  

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• Better than Monday night football: Berkowitz w/Republican gubernatorial Frontrunner Sen. Bill Brady; Cable tonight in Chicago & Aurora-and streaming

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  The "Public Affairs," show featuring Senator Bill Brady (R-Bloomington), candidate in the 2010 Gubernatorial Republican Primary, is airing tonight, Oct. 26: (1) throughout the City of Chicago at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21(CANTV, aka Chicago Access Network TV) and (2) on cable in Aurora and surrounding areas at 7:30 [...]

  Posted: October 26, 2009, 2:05pm EDT
  

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• The Blind Spot In The Chicago Tax Break Debate

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  Yesterday on WBEZ's Eight Forty-Eight, Tribune business columnist David Griesing came on to discuss a timely issue: the incentives used by the City of Chicago to lure large corporations to downtown office buildings.  This is a topic we've written about regularly over the past year, as we've watched [...]

  Posted: October 20, 2009, 11:26am EDT
  by Josh Kalven

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