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The smell of success
Lately, it seems you don't have to be anywhere near a garden to stop and smell the roses.
Smell is the latest way that businesses are attempting to woo customers, whether it be the scented candles at Hampden shop In Watermelon Sugar, the vanilla and...Tags: Business, Marketing, Business, Monaco, Williams-Sonoma Inc.
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House OKs cigarette tax hike
SPRINGFIELD — Smokers are likely to pay $1 more a pack after the Illinois House on Friday approved a cigarette tax increase to avoid even deeper cuts to health care for the poor.
The House has long been the stumbling block to higher tobacco taxes,...Tags: Public Employees, Hospitals and Clinics, Illinois Governor, Michael Madigan, Interior Policy
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Fitzgerald succession pick is a political hot potato
Dick Durbin and Barack Obama have a political problem involving their choice of the next federal prosecutor in Chicago, now that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is leaving the office.
And it won't go away before the November elections.
There's been a...Tags: Mitt Romney, Lawyers, Regional Authority, Rahm Emanuel, Viagra (drug)
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City prepares $2.1 billion in bond deals for Midway debt, water and sewer upgrades
Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to use only financial firms owned by minorities, women and disabled veterans on a bond deal to pay for $300 million in water and sewer improvements during the next two years, officials said Monday. Chief Financial Officer Lois...
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Finance, Richard M. Daley, Federal Aviation Administration, Midway Airport
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Council passes business license overhaul
Business owners will face less red tape at City Hall after Chicago aldermen voted Wednesday to streamline licensing. Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal will reduce the number of city licenses business owners might need from 117 to 47. Emanuel said that also...
Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rahm Emanuel, Punishment, Robert Fioretti, Chicago City Hall
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Aldermen to reap generous pensions
WGN NewsAt the beginning of Mayor Daley’s reign at city hall, a succession of heart attacks killed three Chicago aldermen within several months. Many of their colleagues signed a tribute letter honoring them, but also taking the vulnerable moment to ask...Tags: Chicago City Council, Interior Policy, Chicago Tribune, Richard M. Daley, Pension and Welfare
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Chicago aldermen disclose outside jobs, income
Clout StreetNew financial disclosure statements show six of the Chicago City Council's 16 new aldermen have outside jobs or own businesses. Nine of the aldermen who were elected for the first time last year gave up other jobs, according to disclosures and...Tags: Chicago City Council, Local Elections, Michele Smith, David Axelrod, William D. Burns
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Generous rules govern aldermen's pensions
Tribune reportersWhen Chicago aldermen floated a proposal in 1987 to boost their city pensions dramatically, Mayor Harold Washington's administration dismissed it as an arrogant ploy that lacked even a cursory cost analysis. Three years later, the proposal still didn't...Tags: Lawyers, Local Elections, Rahm Emanuel, Bernard L. Stone, Jim Thompson
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Illinois Senate panel votes down pension measure
Clout StreetAn Illinois Senate committee on Wednesday rejected a measure that would force local government to pick up the tab when it gives an ex-lawmaker a big paycheck to fatten his pension. The bill passed the House on a 110-0 vote in March. The legislation...Tags: Tom Cross, Donne E Trotter, Interior Policy, Illinois General Assembly, Elections
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Words of one syllable dept.
Change of SubjectWith apologies to the New Yorker, here are some words-of-one-syllable snippets from today's front page tale, Generous rules govern aldermen's pensions Retired council members stand to reap millions, thanks to a quietly engineered pension boost in 1991:... -
Emanuel to wait on controversial trust vote
Clout StreetThe vote on Mayor Rahm Emanuel's controversial infrastructure trust plan will be delayed for at least six days. Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, quietly asked that the issue be deferred, shortly after the council voted to approve the mayor's speed-camera...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Park District, Finance, Chicago Transit Authority, Brendan Reilly
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Why are Supreme Court candidates quiet about unqualified Danny Degnan on judicial ballot?
The candidates for Illinois Supreme Court in the Democratic primary have been quite impressive.
Especially when these serious, thoughtful and prudent jurists talk of noble concepts, like ethics and the right and wrong of things, and what is the greater...Tags: Illinois Supreme Court, Lawyers, Rahm Emanuel, Primaries, Judges
Jan 19, 2012
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Apr 18, 2012
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Mar 16, 2012
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