By Alice Rossignol and Rachael Gleason for Great Lakes Echo In a contest modeled after…
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Enter Fourth Annual Shortcuts, Win cash prize, premiere
Last year, Columbia College film professor Wenhwa Ts’ao’s “Arithmetic Lesson” won. Her 15-minute dramatic film…
In Illinois, Workers Still Compensated if Drinking or High While Injured
While Gov. Pat Quinn stressed in his budget address last month that workers compensation reform…
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Interactive Map Let’s You Analyze TIF Projects
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Challenges Remain in Getting TIF Information in Chicago
It takes time and patience to get information about the hundreds of millions of dollars…
TIF Subsidies Given to Chicago Companies, Nonprofits Bypass City Neighborhoods in Need of Jobs
United Airlines and Quaker Oats. The fitness club at Union Station and the parent company…
Despite Throat Cancer, Fioretti Will Serve The 2nd Ward Again
Ald. Bob Fioretti (2nd Ward) won a second term with 55 percent of the vote…
Rey Colon wins 35th Ward. Again.
Preliminary numbers show that voters in Chicago’s 35th Ward chose to hang on to their…