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Cubs hoping to add 3:05 p.m. Friday starts this season
The Cubs have five remaining Friday afternoon games at Wrigley Field they're hoping to schedule at 3:05 p.m., as they did in the 1980s with the "businessman's specials." They're hoping the City Council pushes up its vote on the proposal by Mayor Rahm...
Tags: Atlanta Braves, Rahm Emanuel, Arodys Vizcaino, Thomas M. Tunney, Kevin Gregg
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Lawmakers vote to lower mandatory school age to 6 from 7
Illinois children would have to be in school at age 6 instead of 7 starting in September 2014 under a bill that cleared the legislature Thursday in Springfield, giving education officials a tool to fight a truancy crisis that reaches into the earliest...
Tags: Chicago Teachers Union, Rahm Emanuel, Kimberly Lightford, Teaching and Learning, Students
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CTA, rail union at odds over seniority rules
Labor peace has been short-lived at the CTA in the wake of a historic contract negotiated late last year that changed decades-old work rules to increase efficiency and save the transit agency millions of dollars annually. On Monday, several hundred CTA...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Employees, Unions, Career and Workplace, Chicago Transit Authority
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Legislators give go-ahead to new Elgin-O'Hare toll road
Amid the divisiveness this spring over pension reform and casino gambling, legislators managed to agree overwhelmingly on at least one thing: The Chicago area needs a new toll road. With little more than a dozen "no" votes — mostly from...
Tags: Terry Link, Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, Career and Workplace, Elgin, Chicago Transit Authority
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Getting around: Surprise sidetracks speed camera bill
State legislation aimed at reducing the number of children struck by vehicles near schools across Illinois breezed through the House in April, but it hit a speed bump in the Senate well before the General Assembly session ended last week. A major...
Tags: Chicago City Hall, Rahm Emanuel, Health and Safety at School, Michigan Avenue, Springfield
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Parking meter contract left no clever ways out
What if, to turn the screws on the private parking meter company that has Chicago in a vise of its own, the city imposed an exorbitant, crippling tax on parking meter revenues? It was an idea submitted by one of my readers, and I put it to the city's...
Tags: Turkey (animal), Rahm Emanuel, Lincoln Square (Chicago, Illinois), Bridgeport (Chicago, Illinois), Near North Side
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Gay marriage bill fails to go to vote in Illinois House
SPRINGFIELD -- For Illinois' gay marriage proponents, it was supposed to be a historic week culminating in a collective "I do" from Springfield lawmakers. Thousands tuned in to social media and live streams throughout the day Friday, sending tweets...
Tags: Family, U.S. Supreme Court, Christianity, Social Issues, Pat Quinn
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Ex-Emanuel aide Mintle to head Chicagoland Chamber
Tribune reporterTheresa Mintle, former chief of staff to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, has been named president and chief executive of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, according to a press release issued this afternoon. Mintle, 48, begins Aug. 5, replacing Jerry Roper, who...Tags: Theresa Mintle, PNC Financial Services Group Incorporated, Chicago City Hall, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley
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Hot-button issues pile up for Springfield finale
— Five months of debate, negotiation and procrastination among lawmakers led to a high stakes Friday adjournment showdown that could decide the fate of the state's most controversial and contentious issues —public pension reform, gun control,...
Tags: Interior Policy, Family, Firearms, Cook County Board of Commissioners, Pat Quinn
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Meter lease foe warns against amending agreement
Tribune reporterApproving Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposed changes to the much-reviled city parking meter lease would make it far harder to undo in court, an attorney trying to kill off the deal says. “Voting for this amendment means you are for the parking...Tags: Lawyers, Rahm Emanuel, Local Government, Justice System, Chicago Tribune
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Head of CeaseFire Illinois charged with domestic battery
Chicago TribuneTio Hardiman, director of the anti-violence group CeaseFire Illinois, was arrested Friday morning on a misdemeanor domestic battery charge at his home in west suburban Hillside. The arrest clouds the future of Hardiman's leadership at the organization,...Tags: Trials, Wars and Interventions, CeaseFire, Rahm Emanuel, Garry McCarthy
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CPS pension holiday bill fails
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD --- A plan to allow Mayor Rahm Emanuel to skip a large chunk of Chicago Public Schools pension payments for two years failed today after Gov. Pat Quinn vowed to veto it unless lawmakers also approve comprehensive government worker pension....Tags: Moody's Corporation, Interior Policy, Naperville, Career and Workplace, Teaching and Learning
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