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Category: Politics
Say “No” to ComEd/Ameren Rate Hikes
Right now, ComEd and Ameren’s high-powered lobbying teams are leaning on state senators to vote…
New Mayoral Task Force Tackling TIF Troubles
Chicagotalks has reported and mapped them. The Chicago Reader has doggedly investigated them. Now Mayor…
Update on La Casita, Whittier School and CPS Confrontation
Reporter Kelsey Duckett updates this ongoing story at Gapersblock. “We have not left, and we…
All Rallied Up and No One to Know
A group of local antiwar activists gathered outside the Dirksen Federal Building on the morning…
Participatory Budgeting Can Work. Hear How.
Alderman Joe Moore of the 49th Ward and Elizabeth Vitell, Executive Director of the Rogers…
Eyewitness Libya In Chicago
Former Congressional representative and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, who is currently in Libya on her…
Homeowners Welcome Attorney Generals to Town with Questions About Foreclosures
A National People’s Action report released in 2009, with Senator Dick Durbin, showed that 2009…