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Parking meter changes take effect Sunday in some areas
Clout StreetStarting Sunday, people parking cars in Chicago’s metered spaces will have to mind the signs lest they pay when they don’t have to or get a ticket for not feeding the meters long enough. Drivers won't need to feed meters at all on Sunday in...Tags: Gold Coast, Wrigleyville, Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel
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Free Sunday meters, extended hours get started
Starting Sunday, people parking cars in Chicago's metered spaces will have to mind the signs lest they pay when they don't have to or get a ticket for not feeding the meters long enough. Drivers won't need to feed meters at all on Sunday in some Chicago...
Tags: Gold Coast, Wrigleyville, Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel
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Special Report: Iran, the United States and 'the cup of poison'
ReutersNEW YORK/ANKARA (Reuters) - Five months ago Iran's foreign minister sent an unusual letter to the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It was time, Ali Akbar Salehi wrote according to two sources who read the letter, to reach out to Tehran'...Tags: Nuclear Weapons, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Defense Equipment, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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U.S. House committee issues subpoena for Benghazi documents
ReutersBy Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - The Republican chairman of a congressional oversight committee ordered the U.S. State Department on Tuesday to provide documents related to "talking points" used to discuss September's Benghazi...Tags: John Kerry, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Government
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Obama library, casino among options for former Reese site
A casino-entertainment complex, a major convention hotel and a Barack Obama presidential library are being floated as possible anchors for a mixed-use development of the former Michael Reese Hospital site on the Near South Side. The scenarios were...Tags: Near South Side, Richard M. Daley, Arts and Culture, Libraries, Bronzeville
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Valley residents attend presidential swearing-in
Staff WriterWhile a majority of Americans watched the presidential inauguration from the comfort and warmth of their own homes, there were a few Imperial Valley residents who made the trip to the nation’s capitol to witness the event in person. Given the event...Tags: Michelle Obama, Washington, DC, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Travel, Trips and Vacations
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Rep. Jackson calls it quits
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., the ambitious political heir to a powerful Chicago family whose once promising future collapsed amid federal ethics investigations and a diagnosis of mental illness, resigned Wednesday from the South Side congressional seat he held...
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Emanuel ethics reforms pass City Council panel
Clout StreetMayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to tighten up ethics rules for city employees advanced through a City Council committee Wednesday despite concerns by aldermen that the new rules could handcuff them as they try to deal with issues in their communities....Tags: Public Employees, Chicago Elections, Values, Rahm Emanuel, Religion and Belief
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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: Roberto Maldonado, Ameya Pawar, Chicago City Council, Edward M. Burke, Michele Smith
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On the 'Scholarship' list in Springfield
Change of SubjectWhere do our lawmakers stand on the issue of legislative scholarships -- those tuition waivers that members of the state house and senate have traditionally been allowed to dispense to constituents? As part of the renewed effort to abolish that...... -
Illinois House votes down plan to take away Chicago gun restrictions
Clout StPosted by Ray Long and Todd Wilson at 4:41 p.m. SPRINGFIELD --- House lawmakers today defeated a measure that would have taken away Chicago’s ability to regulate how people store guns, a prelude to an expected spring showdown over a......
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