Post-Daley era in Chicago

09/29/2010

Mayor Daley’s surprise announcement that he will not run for reelection has let loose a flood of would-be mayoral candidates. Even more candidates have come out of the woodwork to run for alderman now that the city council may no longer be a rubber stamp. Read more...

Gerber is wrong on Polanksi

Letter to the editor

08/11/2010

I am a regular reader of your free newspaper, which I pick up in my Old Town neighborhood. I usually find the articles about our downtown area to be informative and useful. I rarely read the “gossip column,” but I was scanning your July 29 column when I saw the item about Roman Polanski.
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Protecting a jewel

Letter to the editor

08/04/2010

The Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo opened in June. It is but the most recent jewel in Chicago's crown of "must see" enviable offerings. This 14-acre natural habitat creation is a magnificent, pristine, forward-thinking stroke of genius in urban planning.
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How to challenge the mayor

07/14/2010

Reading the tea leaves suggests Mayor Richard M. Daley will run for reelection this fall, asking for a seventh term from Chicago voters. He hasn’t announced his intentions yet, but the mayor is unlikely to decline taking another shot to sit in the big chair on the fifth floor of city hall for a simple reason: getting out now means leaving the city’s top job and leaving Chicago in the lurch.
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Tracking development in the 43rd Ward

Letter to the editor

07/07/2010

I appreciate Mr. Stine's comments regarding the plans for the Lincoln Park Hospital site. I am pleased that he attended the panel discussion I hosted on development in the 43rd Ward and I would like to thank him for his kind words regarding that event, which was attended by 200 people.
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Skyline around the world

06/23/2010

Attorney Jeffery Leving brought his trusty edition of Skyline to New Orleans during a recent visit he made to the Big Easy for the International Fatherhood Conference in June.
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Development discussions in Lincoln Park

06/23/2010

There have been many news articles and letters from Lincoln Park residents about the proposed plans for the former Lincoln Park Hospital site. My purpose in writing is neither in support nor opposition to the plans.
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In the backroom at Cook County

Time to rein in corruption in county government.

06/16/2010

The colonnades that grace the exterior of the City-County Building at Clark and Randolph are a reminder that the structure is the seat of two local governments, an architectural gesture to the classical republican traditions of Rome.
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Fighting for UIC

We want the State of Illinois to pay the $500 million that it owes us. And make higher education a higher priority.

03/17/2010

Last week, two hundred of us from the University of Illinois-Chicago - faculty, staff, and students - went downtown to save our school.
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Sending a message on Feb. 2

This election allows voters to start purging Blagojevich’s rank influence on our state.

01/20/2010

The primary scheduled for Feb. 2 is the first election in Illinois since federal prosecutors indicted Rod Blagojevich. With few apparently casting their ballots in early voting, the smart money is betting that the incompetent incumbents will slip into yet another term in office.
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