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Let's turn down the alarm over loud teens downtown
You're walking in Chicago. It's chaotic and it's loud. People swarm the sidewalks, many of them shouting. They spill into the street, many of them cursing. They jostle you, step on your toes. Traffic is a nightmare. You squeeze through the barricade...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Michigan Avenue, Magnificent Mile, Wrigley Field, St. Patrick's Day
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Chicago Ideas Week organizers hope talks trigger something great
Chicago Ideas Week headquarters is a brightly lit, sprawling, open room in a River North office building where scores of workers sit at long rows of desks working the phones, rat-a-tatting their keyboards and keeping the din level high. Actually, only...
Tags: Eric Lefkofsky, Goodman Theatre, Services and Shopping, Diane von Furstenberg, Groupon, Inc.
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By the numbers, how Rahm could lose in 2015
A new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows that, halfway through his first term, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's overall disapproval rating is up 11 percentage points over a year ago. Four in 10 Chicago voters — and nearly half of the city's African-American voters...
Tags: Cook County Board of Commissioners, Richard M. Daley, Politics, Cook County Government, Karen Lewis
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Imagine the life that Jonylah never had
Imagine Jonylah Watkins' life if she'd been allowed to have one. Imagine the happy version. Her father marries her mother — that part really happened shortly before Jonylah was shot to death this week at the age of 6 months — and she grows...
Tags: Shootings, Healthy Diet
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Problem Solver: 2 Chicago police officers not guilty in Ticketgate
Someone wrote a series of bogus parking tickets to Mark Geinosky, but it was not Chicago police officers Paul Roque or Horst Hegewald, the Chicago Police Board has ruled. In a 25-page decision posted Tuesday afternoon, the board found the officers not...
Tags: Laws, Trials, Police Investigations, Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Police Department
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An exceptional victim of an everyday crime
Now that two suspects have been charged in the slaying of Hadiya Pendleton, our focus turns from the extraordinary qualities of her life to the ordinary qualities of her death. Hadiya, 15, was mourned at funeral services over the weekend as a young...
Tags: Cook County Board of Commissioners, Politics, Gun Control, Laws, Anita Alvarez
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The gang crisis: Emanuel owns it now
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," said Mayor Rahm Emanuel a few years ago. "And what I mean by that," he said, "it's an opportunity to do things you could not do before." Things you could not do before? Or things you would not do...
Tags: Shootings, Politics, Englewood, Gun Control, West Garfield Park
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Praetorian Guard is key in Vanecko investigation
The Praetorian Guard of Chicago won't be part of the formal hearing Friday in what's now called the Vanecko case. But understanding what happened in the political heater case of the year won't be complete without Praetorian input. Many of you know...
Tags: Richard M. Daley, Prosecution, Politics, Gun Control, Laws
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Seer madness: Readers and I do our duty, predict 2013
With the help of several Latin scholars, I've come up with a fittingly snooty motto for this column's annual exercise in forecasting the news: Non coniectare imprudentior esset. Translation: Not to conjecture is imprudent. Inspiration: "Is it...
Tags: Pat Quinn, Trayvon Martin, Prosecution, Politics, Elian Gonzalez
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Treat Chicago's homicide surge as an epidemic
For once, Chicago has beaten New York in a competition that the Windy City had no desire to win. Chicago ended 2012 with more homicides than New York. No one cheers for that. Chicago, with only a third of New York's population, ended 2012 with 506...
Tags: Lobbying, Politics, Gun Control, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice
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Problem Solver: Ticketgate ends in settlement
Mark Geinosky may never know why he received 24 unwarranted parking tickets, but the former Orland Park resident finally has some closure in the case. Geinosky said Wednesday that he has reached a settlement to end his federal lawsuit against the city...
Tags: Civil Laws, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, Laws, Justice System
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And the 2012 Silver medal for prophecy goes to ...
One year ago, I didn't predict that a book about predictions, "The Signal and the Noise," would be one of the top-selling nonfiction titles of 2012 or that its author, former Chicagoan Nate Silver, would become a cultural icon whose name is synonymous...
Tags: Politics, G8, Unemployment Benefits, U.S. Senate, Joe Biden
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