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Emanuel's trade: recycling carts for soft drink plugs
Clout StreetMayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday announced his latest partnership with Coca-Cola: The soft drink giant will pay for 50,000 blue recycling carts for Chicago homes and in return gets to put images of Coke products on the lids of the familiar bins. Emanuel tied...Tags: Earth Day, Diabetes, Weight, Local Government, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Selling off our assets not that far-fetched
timr@herald-mail.comPeople in Washington County should concern themselves with the following passage from the Chicago Tribune, which appeared two days after Christmas: “In an annual ritual that has become as predictable if not as joyous as a New Year’s Eve...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Credit Ratings, The Herald-Mail, Photography Supplies and Services, Chicago Tribune
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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: Tour Operations Industry, Travel, Tourism and Leisure
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Susan Hahn Susan Hahn was editor of TriQuarterly for 14 years. She is author of a recent novel, “The Six Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter”; nine books of poetry, including “Self/Pity” and “The Scarlet Ibis”; and...Tags: Social Sciences, Meatloaf, Dwayne Johnson, Architecture, Chicago Police Department
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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.... -
Slain cop's son among those wounded in outbreak of violence
Tribune reporterAmong the more than dozen people wounded in this week's outbreak of violence was the son and namesake of a Chicago police officer slain outside his home nearly three years ago. “He’s doing OK,” said Pamela Bailey, widow of Officer...Tags: Murder, Misdemeanors, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Crimes
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Rosemont, other Chicago suburbs ready to play ball with Cubs if team moves
Among those in the audience Wednesday morning when Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts raised the possibility of moving the team from Wrigley Field was one surprised White Sox fan: Rosemont Mayor Bradley Stephens. "I never expected Tom to come out with that,"...
Tags: Chicago Cubs, Addison, George Halas, Local Government, Thomas Ricketts
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Obama library, casino among options for former Reese site
A casino-entertainment complex, a major convention hotel and a Barack Obama presidential library are being floated as possible anchors for a mixed-use development of the former Michael Reese Hospital site on the Near South Side. The scenarios were...Tags: Homes, Barack Obama, Bronzeville, West Point, William D. Burns
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Divorce court weds power and privacy
J.F.'s marriage was crumbling in 2010, but he didn't want that public. J.F. is a well-known Chicago politician, and when he and his wife ended up in divorce court, he asked that their names be kept secret to avoid a “media frenzy.” Despite...
Tags: Ricardo Munoz, New Year's Day, Government, Laws, Cook County Government
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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: Elections, Rahm Emanuel, Scott Waguespack, Local Government, Chicago Mayor
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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: Recreational Equipment Inc., Advertising, Dublin (Ireland), Media Industry, Marketing
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