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But Fire Department response to home remodeling allegation less severe than city recommendation December 17, 2010|By Hal Dardick and Todd Lighty, Tribune reporters Ten on-duty Chicago firefighters helped a colleague renovate his home under the guise of a training exercise, but they were spotted by neighbors who knew an abuse …

Rahm Emanuel, Former Obama White House Chief of Staff didn’t earn the nickname “Rahmbo” for being a mild-mannered shrinking violet. He served as Bill Clinton’s chief money-man at a time when the Clinton campaign was corrupted by foreign money. He defended the “worst of the worst” Clinton scandals, and, in …

Full-Body Scanner Deployed at Midway Airport Updated: Wednesday, 15 Dec 2010, 12:29 PM CS Associated Press Chicago’s Midway Airport is joining the long list of airports that have deployed full-body scanners. They’re designed to detect nonmetallic weapons. But some travelers complain the scanners are unnecessarily intrusive and embarrassing. Other critics …

Posted by Judy Hevrdejs Another to-your-door grocery delivery service has driven into the Chicago market. Door to Door Organics (born in Pennsylvania in 1997, moved to Colorado in 2004) began delivering organic produce and other local products to Chicago area homes, schools and businesses this fall. They’ve teamed with Chicago-based …

What went down at the Wit is but one example of the fierce, behind-the-scenes struggle for dominance in Chicago’s $500-million-a-year beer market. The city is one of the last contested territories for the nation’s two beer giants—Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V. and MillerCoors LLC, an affiliate of SABMiller PLC—which wage a proxy …

Posted by AWR Hawkins Dec 2nd 2010 at 11:00 am No matter what you call the mainstream media (the “old media,” the “state-run media,” etc.), it has to be admitted that those who comprise it have a vested interest in preserving an outdated, and dangerous, liberal establishment in this country. …

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 …