For eighteen years Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood has been host to the Around the Coyote Festival. The festival begins tonight and runs through the weekend, but not in Wicker Park.

Acknowledging that nuts-and-bolts city services would suffer, Mayor Daley today proposed laying off 929 city employees, eliminating 1,346 vacancies and raising fees, parking and amusement taxes to sol

Mayor Daley today ordered a “partial shutdown” of city government for three days this year and three more days in 2009 to help solve Chicago’s worst budget crisis in a generation.