A new report from the Civic Federation finds that the gap between city employees paying into their pension funds and former employees receiving pension funds has sharply decreased over the past decade. In the wake of changes to pensions for future employees, legislators are looking into options for current employees.
How Chicago’s Tura Satana, the outrageously buxom movie star who won pop-cult enshrinement as the badass girl-gang leader Varla in Russ Meyer’s 1965 movie “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,” put the “zing” in the King of Rock’n’ Roll.
For young voters, the February 22nd mayoral primary will be the first time they’ll encounter a ballot without the name Richard M. Daley on it. One of the liveliest efforts to push this group to the polls was started last September by a 25-year-old on the day that Daley announced he wasn’t running for another term…
A new poll indicates that Rahm Emanuel has widened his lead in the mayoral race. There are many ways in which the former White House chief of staff looks like a successor to Mayor Daley, and now it’s starting to seem like the votes may be there as well.
Taste of Chicago, in recent years, has been free to attend and has featured a deep lineup of prominent pop musicians. But that hasn’t always been the case. Here’s a brief history of the Taste, including its relationship to the big ChicagoFest musical extravaganza.
WHEN DOVES CRY: Guy meets Girl. Girl humors Guy with date. Homeless Man produces shoebox.
Days after Rahm Emanuel left his job as chief of staff on October 1st to return here to run for mayor, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote the “The Soft Side.” The column was weirdly worded—“Flawed like all of us, [Rahm] is a full human being, rich and fertile from the inside out”—and provided plenty of easy laughs for Brooks/Rahm detractors. Today, Brooks did it again…
How a federal government program helped fund the renovation of Chicago’s lavish Blackstone Hotel; Mayor Daley proposes a fix to the city’s popular identity; Cinkus violations are this month’s residency requirement; and more
Big Brother was watching Motorola’s Xoom tablet ad during the Super Bowl to make sure it didn’t borrow too much from George Orwell’s 1949 classic. But Big Brother owes his existence to other people’s prose…
I don’t like Dibs. Saving your parking spot with a folding chair or a cone or a box of diapers may be part and parcel of winter here, but the whole practice strikes me as a very un-Chicago thing to do. It is basically saying to your neighbors, the people with whom you are presumably … Read more
