Pass Sweet Home Chicago Ordinance

11/10/2010

It seems like a shoo in for the Sweet Home Chicago Ordinance to pass a full vote by the Chicago City Council Wednesday, providing the TIF funded law offered up by Ald. Walter Burnett Jr. (27) makes it through a committee vote set for Monday.
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Take care of those Chicago festivals

Summertime blues

11/03/2010

Recent stories in newspapers throughout the city have been stuck on the idea that the Mayor’s Office of Special Events (MOSE) will reduce the size and scope of summer festivals that have been summer highlights for a generation of Chicagoans.
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Get school debate in the open

10/20/2010

As Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman satisfies the Pilsen neighborhood’s school inequity issue, he faces continued pressure from families and leaders in University Village.
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Fioretti misses the mark with Homebuyers Bill of Rights

10/13/2010

As an aldermanic candidate who won office in 2007 in part on an anti-developer campaign, 2nd Ward leader Robert Fioretti last week missed the mark with his Homebuyers Bill of Rights as a balanced answer to hundreds of his now-displaced constituents, who have lost access to affordable housing as gentrification ran through his ward.
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Enough already

Chicago Bears need to step up

09/15/2010

It’s been 25 years. Give us what we want! It’s the Chicago Bears obligation as Chicago’s football team to stand up and provide victory at all cost. Nothing less will do! We’re long overdue for a replacement the Super Bowl Shuffle with a 21st century ditty.
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CPS must be more transparent

09/08/2010

Chicago Public Schools and Chief Executive Officer Ron Huberman must be more open with parents and neighborhood leaders seeking solutions at their neighborhood schools.
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Support Chicago's dance floor

Help rebuild it

09/01/2010

After 14 seasons of Summer Dance, the large public outdoor dance floor in Grant Park, near the corner of Michigan Avenue and Harrison Street, is in need of replacement.
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Don't leave Smyth School out of the fix for University Village

Two sides, one coin

08/25/2010

The issues surrounding parental and neighborhood school choice complaints in the 2nd and 25th Wards are complex and not exactly new. As middle to upper income families moved into University Village they outpaced neighborhood access to two magnet schools offering the quality of education desired.
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Miarka decision is a mistake

CPS jettisons decades of experience at Galileo

08/18/2010

Chicago Public Schools' refusal to add acting Galileo Scholastic Academy of Math and Science principal Blanca Miarka to an eligibility list to compete for the job permanently should be reconsidered.
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Target tries harder

New designs show improvement

08/11/2010

Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin recently contrasted Target’s new Wilson Yards outlet with the company’s “standard suburban model — a one-level store surrounded by parking.” The Wilson Yards store, however, as Kamin wrote, is a “compact two stories, with roughly 400 parking spaces tucked underneath.”
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