The CME Group, fresh off its tax-break legislative victory, declined a TIF deal that originated in the Daley administration and would have given them $15 million. And with that, another round of tax increment finance talk kicks off.
The Latino community blasts Rahm Emanuel and the City Council for approving a ward remap that underrepresents minority constituents.
Harvard sociologist Edward Glaeser, author of “The Triumph of the City,” notes another civic triumph: declining segregation nationwide. But one city’s triumph is another’s failure.
Americans’ growing interest in alternative medicine has helped turn suburban Chicago doctor Joseph Mercola into one of the most popular voices in natural health. So why does he have so many people riled up?
Our primer on Mercola’s empire
HE SAYS, THEY SAY: Five areas in which Mercola and the mainstream are at odds
Does global warming have anything to do with the fact that Chicago might break a January record for high temperatures today? Yes, probably, and probably not. It depends on what you’re asking, and whom.
Is the community organizer’s name intoned by Newt Gingrich to exploit anti-Semitism? No, just anti-Satanism, something we can all get behind. It’s just the latest smoke from the embers of the culture wars.
The state continues to labor under budget deficits, debt service, and unpaid bills extending far off into the future. And the drivers of those debts are increasingly difficult to rein in.
Out of all major U.S. cities, only Los Angeles compares to Chicago in the number of gang members—and Chicago may well have more than the nation’s second-largest city. It has considerably more than New York. What went wrong, and what can be done to address it?
