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Ald. Reilly spurns new East Loop TIF

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Alderman Brendan Reilly (42nd) said he doesn’t support a new tax-increment financing district for the East Loop.

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Friends & family fund for Chicago aldermen

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Shadowy $1.3 million payroll helps them get around ban on patronage hiring.

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State extends Chicago TIFs from 24 to 35 years in 11th hour

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Transparency in Action: How a bill intended to expand the state Freedom of Information Act was bastardized to expand the mayor's shadow budget, By Ben Joravsky

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FBI Tracked Studs

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Studs Terkel, the renowned historian and broadcaster, once sought a job at the FBI – the agency that would go on to spend 45 years tracking him as a suspected Communist, newly More... (206 views)

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The Chicago Politics Quiz

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Awesome fun. Cheating encouraged.

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Stone’s Campaign Committee Paying Ramos’s Attorney Fees

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Alderman Bernard L. Stone is paying for a defense of a campaign worker on the grounds that the campaign worker was only following orders - from Stone.

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16 days from incorporation to a $2.4 million federal earmark for Skokie firm

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In rapid succession, the three-employee technology firm, NanoSonix, filed its incorporation papers in Skokie, Ill., and hired a Washington lobbying firm, K&L Gates, which bo More... (28 views)

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Court rules public can't see list of cops with 10 or more complaints

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Chicagoans likely will never see the names of the 662 Chicago Police officers with 10 or more complaints against them. More... (25 views)

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Witnesses Offer Chilling Testimony of Voting ‘Chicago Style’

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Opening statements in the trial of Anish Eapen and Armando Ramos, who face multiple felony counts of vote fraud stemming from the contentious 50th Ward aldermanic race in 2007. More... (257 views)

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It's our money

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Daley is quietly moving forward with plans to spend hundreds of millions of property tax dollars on projects he refuses to discuss publicly. More... (21 views)

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