Barack Obama’s veteran strategist returns home to Chicago, the city where he cut his teeth, to prepare for the 2012 election. To win the future, he’s looking to the past… perhaps because the future looks cloudy.
The top cop turns heads with a statement that CPD officers sometimes cannot respond to shots-fired 911 calls because they are “tied up on a lower-level priority.” But it’s an old problem that ties into the city’s somewhat inexplicable method of 911 response.
Dr. Jason Steffens, a postdoc at the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics, develops an efficient method for boarding a plane, and finds that the block-boarding method has serious flaws.
STILL LIFE: Get beyond the usual tourist traps and explore the other side with this nature-lovers’ guide
Is Chicago ready for TIF reform? Perhaps it’s ready for some reasonable changes to the internal workings of the special taxing scheme, but who knows about the future of the city’s structural tax and budget problems.
A bike nerd post about stumbling on an obscure piece of local bike manufacturing history: the fillet-brazed lightweight Schwinn.
The mayor’s Tax Increment Financing Task Force issues its final report just before the new mayor holds two budget townhalls. There’s actually some straight talk in it, but no calls for radical change.
On Eight Forty-Eight this morning, WBEZ aired its interview with Rahm Emanuel, in commemoration of the mayor’s first 100 days in office. The discussion, hosted by Alison Cuddy, was taped Wednesday night at an event cohosted by the radio station and the Chicago History Museum…
Alex Kotlowitz talks to an ex-gang member who gives the barbers at his Cicero shop second and third—even fourth—chances to turn their lives around.
An 88 percent hike in tollway fares opens up the inevitable frustration. If these sorts of fares rose with inflation like most other things we pay for, politicians could rest a little easier.
