Don Nowotny calls Lake Effect News on his lunch hour to confirm that he is running for 46th Ward alderman in 2011.
As the Chicago City Council plans to ram through its own ordinance for a “legislative inspector general” that would require “signed and sworn” complaints identifying whistle-blowers, see where ethics, the police board and the inspector general rank on the city’s 2010 annual appropriations.
Peeling away at the City Council budget is a lot like the origins of Chicago’s name, shikaakwa, which means “stinky onion.” Just when you think you’ve FOIAed all the layers, there’s a whole other layer underneath, and it’s called the Vice Mayor’s budget.
By LORRAINE SWANSON
Editor
The Chicago City Council’s Committee on Finance deferred a proposed ordinance to amend the Wilson Yard TIF District to Wednesday, Feb. 10.
The proposed ordinance requesting a second amendment to the Wilson Yard TIF Redevelopment Plan and Project was held in a committee at the request of Ald. Helen…
By FELICIA DECHTER
Rogers Park resident Steve Straus would rather walk several blocks than pay $1 an hour to park in the lakefront lot at Loyola Park, next door to his house.
“I would park three blocks away before I would pay any money for this frickin’ lot,” said Straus, a neighbor for…
The City Council granted its approval to upzone a property in the historic Sheridan Park neighborhood despite overwhelming community opposition.
The Committee on Zoning granted an Uptown developer’s request to upzone a property in historic Sheridan Park during a Thursday zoning hearing in the face of overwhelming community opposition.
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