15 years after Bill Clinton pushed public-housing administrators to strictly enforce “one-strike” penalties, CHA residents can be evicted if anyone in the household commits a minor crime—or even if they’re charged, but not convicted, of one.
When Bill Daley took over Rahm Emanuel’s job as President Obama’s chief of staff, the conventional wisdom had it that, finally, an adult was in the room. It may be too soon to judge Daley’s performance in the job, but he certainly earns a low grade for the dustup over the scheduling of Obama’s upcoming jobs speech…
A ’20s tattoo artist, a developer and his son, the man behind Sybaris, a “mood director,” and a legendary Chicago courtroom figure: a Labor Day weekend reader.
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.
