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Norma Reyes: 1956-2013
Norma Reyes, deputy chief of staff under former Mayor Richard M. Daley a decade ago, was commissioner of the city's Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection from 2004 until 2011. Ms. Reyes, 56, was found dead in her Roscoe Village home...
Tags: Wicker Park, Lawyers, Consumers, Abusive Behavior, Roscoe Village
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Harris: Digital startup makes move to challenge Facebook
The idea behind Cayova, a startup moving its headquarters to Chicago via Dublin, is that the time we spend in the digital world and the information we share about ourselves is a valuable commodity to marketers. So why shouldn't we, as consumers,...
Tags: Advertising, Online Advertising, Media Industry, LinkedIn Corp., Marketing
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Mayor Daley, the environmentalist
The April 28 profile of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley (“Daley settles (not entirely) into life as a regular Chicagoan,” Columns, April 28) was nicely written. Many people in the metropolitan area will remember his admirable...Tags: Chicago Mayor
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Drivers to pay longer under parking meter settlement
Tribune reportersDrivers would have to feed most Chicago parking meters for more hours every day except Sunday under a plan Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced as part of a deal to settle a long-running dispute with the private firm that holds the controversial 75-year meter...Tags: Scott Waguespack, Politics, Elections, Local Government, Rahm Emanuel
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Emanuel gets split verdict on crime
Chicago voters are split on how Mayor Rahm Emanuel has handled the crime problem that was a high-profile focus of his second year in office, but they like the job Garry McCarthy is doing as the city's top cop, a Tribune/WGN-TV poll found. The mayor's...
Tags: Garry McCarthy, Polls, Barack Obama, Politics, Elections
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Emanuel doubles down as year 2 ends
Surrounded by kids as he accepted money from a soft-drink company for nutrition and exercise classes, Rahm Emanuel was asked if it might make more sense for children's health to take a harder line on the sale of sugary drinks. "I'm here about making...
Tags: Chicago Elections, Teachers, Economic Policy, Howard Brookins, Politics
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Parking firm would make more money on pay-by-cell plan
Chicago's private parking meter operator could make $2 million per year in new convenience fees on top of investing the deposits made by drivers who pay by phone, under one new aspect of a complicated agreement Mayor Rahm Emanuel presented Wednesday to...
Tags: John Arena, Local Government, Brendan Reilly, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Loop
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Emanuel's approval slips, especially among black voters
Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces growing voter disenchantment, particularly among African-Americans, even as the overall number approving of his job performance holds steady at the halfway point of his first term, a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows. The survey...
Tags: Polls, White House, Barack Obama, Political Fundraising, Politics
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Emanuel's Chicagoness an issue to many
Rahm Emanuel is a North Shore-bred millionaire who trained as a ballet dancer and vacations in Vietnam. It's part of the back story to his hard-charging, ran-the-White-House public persona. It's also an image, perhaps, that has led a majority of...
Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Barack Obama, Wrigley Field, Politics, Prices
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Parking meter boycott
Since the inception of the abominable parking meter deal brokered by former mayor Richard M. Daley, I am confident in saying that I have not used a single metered spot for the current duration of this ridiculous contract. And I will not use a metered spot...Tags: Rahm Emanuel
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Rauner out as chairman of Choose Chicago
Tribune reporterVenture capitalist Bruce Rauner, who is exploring a run for governor, has resigned as chairman of the board of Choose Chicago, the non-profit agency that serves as the city's convention and tourism bureau. Choose Chicago announced the exit. Rauner, a...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Travel, Tour Operations Industry
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Perhaps Mayor Daley should have played this before striking the parking meter deal
Change of SubjectSim City, the latest version: And here's a screen grab from the version I remember playing. Even in that version, however, I'm sure a future-mortgaging rip-off like the parking-meter lease deal would have been a losing move....
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