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Houston Business Journal – by Casey Wooten Waste Management Inc. has agreed to a 10-year deal with the City of Chicago to deliver curbside recycling pickup services to more than 300,000 households, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Chicago’s mayor, Richard Daley, is …

BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter Starting today, carriage drivers will have to clean streets after horses urinate. | Keith Hale~Sun-Times Chicago’s horse-drawn carriage owners are raising a stink — and predicting a rash of Gold Coast accidents and worse-than-normal traffic jams — over a new city regulation that will …

With less than a week remaining before the 20th Ward aldermanic race heads to what appears to be a dramatic conclusion, the two remaining combatants are pulling no punches in attempts to rally support behind their campaign and make pitches to an otherwise apathetic voter base. In the Feb. 22 …

March 29, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — ABC7’s news partners at the Daily Herald report that low levels of radiation from Japan have been discovered in samples taken in DuPage and Will counties. The levels are not harmful to humans, crops or the water supply. Meanwhile, a fundraiser took place in …

Man grabbed iPhone, pushed commuters out of his way during escape, police say Tuesday, Mar 29, 2011 | Updated 10:50 PM CDT By BJ Lutz and Jeff Goldblatt A 68-year-old church deacon died Tuesday, hours after being knocked down the stairs at a north side El stop by a fleeing …

Car speeding away as bullets flew hit CTA vehicle, police say March 29, 2011|By Ryan Haggerty and Andrew L. Wang, Tribune reporters E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune Just a few inches separated life and death for Mahogany Myers on Tuesday morning. Myers, 27, was pulling out of the parking lot …

Juan Martinez The city of Chicago began a mail preference service earlier this month that provides residents with the ability to opt out of receiving selected direct mail materials. The effort is designed to enable Chicago to save money on sanitation and rid the city of tons of millions of …

By Fran Spielman City Hall Reporter If they ever make a sit-com about Chicago’s City Hall, it might be called, “All in the Family.” Now, Ald. Carrie Austin (34th) has crafted a new episode — by installing her son as her ward superintendent. Until recently, Lemuel Austin III was a …

March 28, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — As a proposed concealed carry bill moves through the Illinois state House, opponents of the measure plan to voice their concerns Tuesday. Victims of gun violence, Chicago police and gun control advocates plan to hold a news conference at the Thompson Center. They argue …

New lawsuit by teen targets members of the Special Operations Section, who have been convicted of illegal searches, stealing money and trumped-up charges By Annie Sweeney, Tribune reporter On a summer evening six years ago, Jose Fematt and his younger sister did what most kids do as the day fades …

By Dow Jones Newswires-Wall Street Journal Caterpillar Inc., suggesting that it could shift jobs out of Illinois, is prodding its home state to cut government spending and roll back tax increases. Doug Oberhelman, chief executive officer of the giant Peoria-based maker of construction and mining equipment, protested against the state’s …

Illinois State Police on Friday agreed to review the Chicago Police Department’s investigation of the April 2004 homicide of David Koschman, who died after he was punched in the face by Richard “R.J.” Vanecko, a nephew of Mayor Richard Daley and White House Chief of Staff William Daley. The state …

Creating a dramatic ending for an important meeting of the 47th Ward Democratic organization, the organization President, William Helm, was arrested Saturday morning on charges of misdemeanor battery, related to an alleged assault on February 22, Election Night. At 10:25 a.m., Chicago Police Officers from the 19th District Tactical Unit …

10:02 p.m. CDT, March 25, 2011 Jose Quiroz was at his Chicago home with his wife and 4-year-old son in 2009 when federal agents came to his door with their guns drawn and, mistaking him for a Colorado man, arrested him, according to a federal complaint that Quiroz filed on …

J. Zellermayer WGN News According to the Chicago Tribune a Cook County Circuit judge has temporarily stopped at least 1,700 foreclosures. The court said Fisher and Shapiro LLC, one of the top three law firms used by mortgage services, told the court they changed affidavits in the foreclosure cases. The …