Alderman: Fix potholes before Olympic sites
As city crews repaired streets at another Olympic site Thursday, a Chicago alderman clashed with an aide to Mayor Richard Daley, telling him more heavily traveled, pothole-plagued roads should be...
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Official: Clout got rookie job
On paper, a politically connected but inexperienced truck driver looked like one of the best candidates for a job driving a city garbage truck. Aides to Mayor Richard Daley gave...
Bid book to detail Chicago’s plan
Many Chicago area residents are looking to the Olympics to help solve the city's public transportation woes. In the city's formal bid, due Thursday, the transportation plan will be a...
Council prods Olympic bid chief
A diverse group of Chicago aldermen sent a message Monday to the city's Olympic bid chief, telling Chicago 2016 Chairman Patrick Ryan that his team needs to find more work...
Risk jumps for taxpayers
Chicago's Olympic bid has gotten riskier for taxpayers. Olympic boosters said Friday that the bid's financial cushion has eroded due to the worsening real estate market. As a result, chances...
Public housing’s island
For all the talk of weaving public housing residents into the fabric of the city, the Chicago Housing Authority's ambitious Plan for Transformation includes this inconvenient fact: When the plan...
Patronage is seen in city hiring
Mayor Richard Daley's administration still isn't following basic rules designed to keep city hiring free of politics, a court-appointed official said Thursday. A year after submitting a blueprint to clean...
Obama adviser shapes city housing policy
Valerie Jarrett, a close adviser to Barack Obama, stands at the center of Chicago's controversial efforts to redevelop public housing. Jarrett has pushed to integrate new developments by limiting the...
City scraps troubled blue bag program
Mayor Richard Daley's controversial blue bag recycling program will end this summer, and the city will expand suburban-style recycling across the city by 2011. City Hall slowly has been moving...
For insider, park a gold mine
Mayor Richard Daley took an hourlong boat ride on the Chicago River in fall 1997 and came back with a vision of improving the riverfront in the city's neighborhoods. Just...