Mayor Emanuel, Property Taxes, and Chicago Schools
Did the mayor go back on a campaign promise not to impose new taxes, or were higher property taxes always an option for making up the CPS budget shortfall?
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Chicago to Soften Its Purgatorial Orange Glow With White CMH Street Lights
The city uses stimulus money to replace some of its high-pressure sodium street lights with white, “suburban” ceramic metal halide ones.
The Latino Baby Boom, in Chicago and the U.S.
A surge in Latino births produced a tremendous shift in the demographics of Chicago toddlers, portending substantial policy and political changes to come.
The New Chicago Public Schools Budget at a Glance
The CPS just released its proposed 2012 budget, and it’s facing revenue and expenditure problems. Here’s what you need to know before next week’s public hearings, and this month’s vote.
From Tinkertoy to Computer Programming: Great Moments in Chicago Toys
How a Chicago tombstone-maker’s wooden toy set inspired one of the great computer scientists of our time, and how Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel resulted in the invention of Lincoln Logs… by his son.
What We Know, and Don’t Know, About Concussions
As area physicians and legislators grapple with the long-term impacts of concussions, one Northwestern doctor admits much of it remains mysterious
The Man Who Witnessed the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The last living witness to the Lincoln assassination tells all, or at least all that he can remember, on the mid-century game show “What’s My Secret?”
Ald. Burke and the Case of the $600k Security Detail
The BGA manages to get the total bill for the police detail that the veteran alderman and, uh, Finance Committee chair has had since the Council Wars years. It’s even more than you might have guessed.
Edward Klein's Latest Subject—the Obamas and Valerie Jarrett in the White House
Ed Klein, the former editor of The New York Times Magazine (1977-87) and foreign editor of Newsweek, was in Chicago this week to conduct interviews for his latest biography—this one focusing on Barack and Michelle Obama and their friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett and their interactions in the White House…
Why I Run
MAKING STRIDES: Our man wonders why he endures the mental and physical grind of long-distance running. Then, one nasty spring day, in a stinging horizontal rain, the answer comes to him