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Bin Laden death: Chicago police, security agencies step up vigilance May 02, 2011 By Jeremy Gorner, Jon Hilkevitch and Becky Schlikerman, Tribune reporterNuccio DiNuzzo, Chicago Tribune Guarding against reprisals in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, Chicago0area security personnel stepped up their vigilance Monday at high-profile spots: the Daley …

Chicago, Meet Your New City Council The Reader’s guide to the hacks, geeks, lawyers, and other assorted characters who will serve as aldermen under Mayor Emanuel By Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky Four years ago we looked to the incoming Chicago City Council with great hope and expectation—at long last, …

By Lynn Sweet on April 29, 2011 8:38 AM WASHINGTON — A factor in President Obama’s decision to address the “birther” question — and release his “long form” birth certificate — came when ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos asked him about it in an April 14 interview where Obama wanted …

First, MS-13 kingpins made their way into major U.S. cities. Today, Newsweek reports that 20,000 illegal alien drug dealers operate in 44 states. They engage thousands of American teens as sellers on our streets. Many turn to a life of crime because they can make $1,000.00 a week selling drugs …

Bill Conroy Narcosphere April 27, 2011 A high-level player with one of the most notorious narco-trafficking organizations in Mexico, the Sinaloa “cartel,” claims that he has been working with the U.S. government for years, according to pleadings filed recently in federal court in Chicago. That player, Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, …

Casey Chan The Adler Planetarium just renovated the Grainger Sky Theater with a big honking screen. The display will mimic being in space with a 8,000 by 8,000 pixel screen that’s supposed to deliver “the largest single seamless digital image in the world”. For reference, typical movie screens ‘only’ spit …

BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel was urged Tuesday to rein in police spying after the city agreed to pay and publicly absolve an international peace and justice organization investigated in the run-up to a 2002 business conference in Chicago. The Quaker-based American Friends Service Committee …

Heroin abuse in Chicago’s suburbs is reaching epidemic proportions, and the area’s Eisenhower Expressway has become known as the “Heroin Highway” for all the smack that flows through it.

Monitor readings of lead pollution prompt investigation by federal, state environmental regulators By Michael Hawthorne, Tribune reporter 12:15 AM CDT, April 1, 2011 Residents in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood complained for years about metallic-tasting smoke rolling down their narrow streets but had little evidence it was harmful. Now they have proof. …

Analysis by ZIP code shows mostly slipping values By Mary Ellen Podmolik, Tribune reporter April 24, 2011 At best, Chicago-area home prices are bouncing along the bottom or getting less bad as the depreciation rate slows. At worst, they continue in a free fall. A year of home price changes …

Shortly after leaving jail, teen bound, beat and stabbed father, police say Nellessen had been in and out of Fecarotta’s courtroom since 2009, when he appeared on a residential burglary charge. He could have been sentenced to 4 to 15 years for the class 1 felony, but Fecarotta chose Cook …

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procurement request www.gpo.gov/gpo/bidopps/bidopps.action?region=chicago UPDATE: They have already taken down the information off of their website! Looks like they don’t like the exposure of their sinister agenda! handbook here www.scribd.com/doc/22092329/ICE-National-Detainee-Handbook-2007 link

The pitch isn’t subtle. Lawyers behind the recent wave of mass file-sharing lawsuits in the US want to earn quick settlements from defendants rather than litigate years-long cases, so it’s no surprise that their settlement efforts are persistent. Settlement amounts are set at a few thousand dollars—enough to hurt but …

By Julie Wernau Posted Feb. 10 at 4:29 p.m. Exelon CEO John Rowe saw his total compensation for 2010 rise 14 percent to $7.2 million, according to documents filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission, an increase largely tied to a change in the theoretical value of his pension. …