Chicago residential parking zones map
City Clerk Susana Mendoza says Chicago’s complex network of 1,429 active residential parking zones, many carved into smaller areas with unique restrictions, cover 20 percent of the city.
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New leaders and a new reason to hope
City Council progressives are ready to help lead Chicago following the most dramatic aldermanic elections in a generation. Our ranks have been increased with the election of several outstanding new...
Renew, expand homeowner exemption
Three years ago, Chicago homeowners reeling from the 2003 city property reassessment waited nervously throughout the winter and spring for the Illinois General Assembly to act on property tax relief....
Applaud the new activism of City Council
For years the Tribune ridiculed the Chicago City Council as the mayor's "rubber stamp." Now that we are beginning to assert ourselves as equal policymaking partners with the mayor, the...
Plan to restore Great Lakes is on course
Recently the Chicago Tribune reported that plans for restoring the Great Lakes were "washed up" based on a draft federal report ("Great Lakes plan all washed up; Hit with hurricane...
Bringing people to Chicago’s second shoreline
In his article about signs to be posted on the Chicago River, Tribune staff reporter Michael Hawthorne correctly notes that although the river is "the cleanest it has been in...
Working to improve Chicago’s recycling program
Thank you for sharing your opinion about recycling in Chicago with Chicago residents and us ("Current Blue Bag system a waste," Editorial, Nov. 7). Chicago is not only committed to...
Fighting delays and dysfunction at O’Hare
Air traffic congestion at O'Hare International Airport was reaching critical levels before Sept. 11, 2001, and the grace period afforded by those events is over. Serious chronic congestion, sometimes even...
Starbucks will spur development on South Side
As we celebrate the grand opening of a Starbucks store this week at 71st Street and Stony Island Avenue, the city's Department of Planning and Development would like to point...
We need short-term property tax relief now
The Tribune's March 24 editorial "Taxing politics" pointed out, quite accurately, that residential property taxes are rising not because of excessive government spending but because of the way Illinois funds...