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Read More »Park board to new colleague: Pay $330 for toilet tampering
By Brian Slodysko TribLocal reporter Today at 6:44 a.m. Downers Grove Park Board officials Thursday asked commissioner-elect Mark Roman to pay $330 for allegedly tampering with a portable toilet near his home. Roman, whose alleged conduct involving a portable park district toilet generated both a police report and extra work …
Read More »US Gov Orders Expedited 130K Blue Prints for Martial Law!
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
Read More »Settle up: voicemails show P2P porn law firms in action
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 …
Read More »Exelon CEO’s pay rises 14%
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. …
Read More »Herman Cain Delivers Powerful Address to the Chicago Tea Party
iPhones Secretly Track Your Every Move, Researchers Say
The Huffington Post Catharine Smith First Posted: 04/20/11 12:44 PM ET According to security researchers Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan, your iPhone or iPad is keeping a record of every step you take, storing this data and sharing it with the devices that sync with the iPhone or iPad. What’s …
Read More »Arlington Heights Cop Sued Over Girl’s Rape
Officer Mark Del Boccio is being sued for letting three underage males carry away an unconscious female, who was later raped By Britni Day A suburban police officer’s negligence led to the rape of intoxicated girl, according to a lawsuit. The suit filed Tuesday against the village of Arlington Heights …
Read More »Change of Subject: Perhaps a clue why Emanuel didn’t care about Brizard’s slippery graduation statistics
At Huffington Post, Chicago parent-advocate Julie Woestehoff blogs , in February, a group of Chicago Public Schools high-schoolers busted Chicago mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel‘s chops in a YouTube video (below) for making false statements about charter schools on the campaign trail:[claimed that, outside of two selective enrollment CPS high schools, the …
Read More »New CPS chief fends off hostile questions
Jean-Claude Brizard, 47, is seen by some as a controversial choice to lead Chicago Public Schools. His three years as superintendent in Rochester has been marked by some incremental improvements in test scores and graduation numbers but also frequent battles with the teachers union over discipline policies and performance evaluations …
Read More »Northwestern University’s deception lab
A new form of lie detection could stop crimes before they happen. By Nicole Frehsee With its weathered blue sofa, textbook-littered desks and corkboard plastered with postcards from spring-break spots like Florida and Hilton Head, Room 202 in Northwestern University’s Cresap Hall could easily belong to a frat brother. But …
Read More »For many grads, the old college try’s not enough
Rising number of ‘mal-employed’ settling for low-wage jobs April 19, 2011|By Alejandra Cancino, Tribune reporter Tiffany Groene is waiting tables. Erin Crites is making lattes and iced coffees. And Anna Holcombe is buying and selling gold. These three Chicago women share more than just scraping by with low-paying jobs: They …
Read More »ACLU: Michigan cops stealing drivers’ phone data
by Matt Hickey This machine can let police see all of your photos. Even that one. The Michigan State Police have started using handheld machines called “extraction devices” to download personal information from motorists they pull over, even if they’re not suspected of any crime. Naturally, the ACLU has a …
Read More »Lemont-Bromberek district back to short-term borrowing to pay bills
By Ginger Reilly Coming off a rejection by voters of a $20 million bond referendum earlier this month and continuing to struggle financially, the Lemont-Bromberek Combined School District 113A will go back to the short-term borrowing strategy it’s been using to pay the bills. The school board voted this week …
Read More »1,700 foreclosure cases halted by court
Judge suspends 1,700 actions after law firm admits affidavits were changed By Mary Ellen Podmolik, Tribune reporter A Cook County Circuit Court judge has taken the unusual step of temporarily halting at least 1,700 mortgage foreclosures after a law firm told the court that the cases contained altered documents, the …
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