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CHICAGO, Dec. 10 (UPI) — Rahm Emanuel is skipping forums where Chicago mayoral candidates face voters directly, his campaign confirms. On at least three nights next week, all of the other major candidates plan to appear at community forums and take questions from voters or panelists, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. …

Mayor Daley pleaded with Gov. Quinn on Wednesday to veto a bill that, the mayor warned, would choke Chicago homeowners and businesses with a $550 million property tax increase in 2015 to solve the city’s pension crisis. “They say the taxpayers of Chicago will pay for 100 percent of all …

Mayor Richard Daley on Wednesday said that it’s “annoying” that the Chicago Police Department has yet to set up a database to let police officers and firefighters know how many firearms are registered in each home in the city. The registry was a key piece of Daley’s new gun control …

Associated Press 2:32 a.m. CST, December 9, 2010 A Chicago marketing company has launched an effort to try to get neighbors not to put chairs in street parking spaces when they shovel them out after snow storms. via Group wants snowy Chicago chair tradition to end – chicagotribune.com.

Updated: Tuesday, 07 Dec 2010, 9:27 PM CST Published : Tuesday, 07 Dec 2010, 8:58 PM CST By Dane Placko, FOX Chicago News Chicago – Three Cook County whistleblowers have been fired by new County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. The three employees– Todd Stroger’s scheduler, a secretary in the president’s …

Ben Bradley December 7, 2010 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — Negotiations over new casinos in Illinois are building before an expected vote next month in Springfield. The current version of the bill calls for two new riverboat casinos in the suburbs and a land-based casino in the city of Chicago. ABC 7 …

WASHINGTON — White House aide Susan Sher earned more than half a million dollars from the University of Chicago Medical Center in 2009, when she left to join the Obama administration only a few weeks into the year, according to a newly released financial disclosure. Sher was general counsel and …

2 local firms have purchased delinquent property taxes Spire developer loses control of site in foreclosure suit Irish developer Garrett Kelleher‘s company has lost control of the site on which he started to build the 2,000-foot Chicago Spire. A Cook County Circuit Court judge has granted a request by Anglo …

Number of offenders shot rises sharply December 06, 2010| By Annie Sweeney, Tribune reporter A new report shows that Chicago police used Tasers to subdue nearly 700 offenders over 12 recent months, a dramatic increase that reflects the department’s decision earlier this year to expand its use of the weapons. …

Invalidating petition signatures could keep Emanuel tenant off mayoral ballot December 03, 2010| By Ray Gibson, Tribune reporter State police are looking into allegations that nominating petitions for five political candidates, including four Chicago mayoral contenders, were fraudulently notarized, a spokeswoman for Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White said Friday. …

December 3, 2010, BY DAVE McKINNEY AND FRAN SPIELMAN Staff Reporters The Illinois Senate on Thursday approved police and firefighter pension legislation that Mayor Daley warned would blow a $550 million hole in the city budget, but the top Senate Democrat pledged to try softening that financial hit next month. …

So which elected officials own stakes in full-body scanning machines now in more than 60 U.S. airports? And what are those individual investments worth? We still can’t connect the dots to say that, because these Congressmen invested in these tech companies, than, ipso facto, those scanners were then put in …

Some using transit ID cards issued to people who have died November 29, 2010| By Richard Wronski, Tribune reporter Thousands of fraudulent free rides have been taken on Chicago’s mass-transit system by people using passes issued to now-deceased senior citizens, officials said Monday. The Regional Transportation Authority found that at …

Take your pick of the best — or only — seats in the house Venues with no more than 75 seats provide intimate experience By Mark Caro, Tribune reporter, November 29, 2010 In the ultraclose quarters of A Red Orchid Theatre last year, Michael Shannon was ranting as the Broadway …

By Dow Jones Newswires-Wall Street Journal, Posted today at 6:21 a.m. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is likely to face some new dissenting votes when the make-up of the Federal Open Market Committee, the central bank’s policy-making committee, changes in January. Four presidents of regional Fed banks will step into …