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PI Original
by Josh Kalven
1:29pm
Mon Nov 24, 2008

Brookins Pleads For Wal-Mart

Wages

As we noted last week, Ald. Billy Ocasio (26th Ward) was the lone city council member to vote down Mayor Daley’s 2009 budget proposal on Wednesday, using his time on the floor to rail against Hizzoner for taking “many communities for granted.” Not to be outdone, Ald. ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
11:47am
Mon Nov 24, 2008

How The State Voted On Con-Con

Following the Nov. 4 election, Progress Illinois conducted an analysis of the statewide, county-by-county results on the proposed 2010 constitutional convention.  We found that voters in every corner of the state -- with the exception of Chicago and East St. Louis -- leaned ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
11:41am
Mon Nov 24, 2008
6 comments

Every IL County Voted Heavily Against Con-Con (UPDATED)

Constitutional Convention

Originally posted on 11/21.  Updated and bumped up on 11/24 to incorporate municipal results.

A Progress Illinois analysis of the 2008 general election results found that every county in the state -- along with voters in six of the eight cities with their own election ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
11:08am
Mon Nov 24, 2008
2 comments

Meeks Wants To Reverse Sales Tax Skimming Policy

State Legislature

Last week we highlighted
a fairly simple policy fix that could generate a significant amount of
additional revenue for the Prairie State without raising taxes. If the
legislature would just cap the amount retailers receive for simply
collecting sales taxes, the state ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
10:17am
Mon Nov 24, 2008

Live From IL-5: Quigley To Start Raising

IL-5

The Sun-Times' Abdon Pallasch has the latest scoop out of the 5th Congressional District today. Cook Co. Commissioner Mike Quigley is throwing his hat in the ring:

Quigley said Sunday he plans to file
papers today to start collecting campaign funds to run for ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
5:04pm
Sun Nov 23, 2008
1 comment

Axelrod Comments On Open Senate Seat, D.C. Leadership Vacuum

Rod Blagojevich

This morning, David Axelrod appeared on Fox Chicago Sunday and had some notable remarks on both the local and national fronts.  He said that President-elect Barack Obama plans to stay out of Prairie State politics once in the White House and doesn't plan on being "a ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
5:21pm
Fri Nov 21, 2008
1 comment

A Bailout For Main Street

Housing

Just three days after Dick Durbin relaunched his effort
to let judges alter the terms of distressed mortgages in bankruptcy
cases, a coalition of activists rallied outside the senior Illinois senator’s
Chicago office to commend his efforts and push him to offer more
...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
1:14pm
Fri Nov 21, 2008

Waiting On The Office Of Urban Policy

Barack Obama

It’s still unclear what Barack Obama’s Office of Urban Policy will do. On his campaign website, the president-elect makes the amorphous promise
that whoever holds the position will “develop a strategy for
metropolitan America and … ensure that all federal dollars ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
12:20pm
Fri Nov 21, 2008
6 comments

Chicago Public Schools Seeing Green

Education

While there have been -- and continue to be -- numerous obstacles to greening the Chicago Public Schools system, Suzanne Carlson, the woman hired by the district to oversee its new Environmental Action Plan, tells us not to rule her out. Carlson recently unveiled a ...