Mayor up for grabs

01/26/2011

Rahm Emanuel is off the mayoral ballot, the Illinois Appellate court said this week. Except not, because the Illinois Supreme Court said he should be on it — until they decide.
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Schools need to represent community

01/26/2011

The University Village Association organized a community effort seventeen months ago to address the issue of a lack of access in our community to quality public education in a socioeconomically diverse learning environment. Aldermen Danny Solis and Bob Fioretti have worked diligently on education issues in their wards. We have worked closely with both of them to determine how to improve all of the schools here and to increase access to education.
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Taking the politics out of education

One View

01/19/2011

On Jan. 26, the Board of Education for the City of Chicago will vote on a proposal to open a new magnet school on the Near West Side at the site of the former Jefferson Elementary School.
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New school not enough

01/19/2011

When parents and neighbors packed the lunchroom at St. Ignatius College Prep in University Village earlier this month to talk about a new West Loop magnet school, it was obvious that the neighborhood’s educational options aren’t enough.
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More big changes than mayor coming in Chicago elections

01/19/2011

This is the first election of the post-Daley era. Yet, Chicago political change doesn’t usually happen in one step. Rather the transition is a Texas two-step or a three-step waltz.
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Chicago Journal welcomes new editor

01/05/2011

Circling the neighborhoods outside of the Loop, things are changing. New businesses move in every day. New people move in every day. Old warehouses, rail yards and vacant lots are finding new purposes. Yet after years and years of topsy-turvy change, things are starting to settle down.
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Shovel those walks, or else

01/05/2011

Having been in Brooklyn and Manhattan during the great Boxing Day dump of 2010, I saw two major differences between NYC and Chicago. First, Chicago plows better and sooner despite NYC sanitation trucks morphing into snow plows at the fall of a flurry.
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Let's hear it for Columbia College

If the South Loop gave out a key to the city, Columbia should hold the master lock

12/29/2010

You hear it all the time: Columbia College Chicago owns more real estate in our neck of the woods than anyone else. And without a doubt, they are good builders, developers, landlords, renovators, restorers and savers of landmarks of all kinds.
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Mayoral battles in Chicago

12/15/2010

The 2011 mayoral campaign is more substantive than in the last 20 years. While petition battles have already cut the field from 20 to 15, arguments continue on whether Rahm Emmanuel legally lives in Chicago. When the theatrics end in court in January, the number of candidates will probably be 10 or fewer.
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It ain't easy trying to serve

12/08/2010

The election petition stories highlighted by Mark Brown in the Chicago Sun-Times this week evoked nightmarish hauntings for me. As a former candidate, the unruly process conjures a sort of fight-or-flight sensation — and a palpitation or two. After all, even the most ethical would-be candidate comes upon problems during petition season.
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