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Navy Pier remake would add urban park elements
Tribune staff reporterNavy Pier, the highly commercialized tourist attraction jutting into Lake Michigan, will take on a more park-like feel under the first phase of redevelopment plans to be formally announced Friday morning. The initial remake does not include some of the...Tags: DePaul Blue Demons , Architecture, Tour Operations Industry, Chicago Restaurants, Travel
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CPS gets $1 million for arts education
A push to bring more arts instruction to Chicago Public Schools got a boost Wednesday when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an additional $500,000 in funding for the CPS Arts Education Plan for the coming school year. The new money brings total funding...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, NATO Summit, Education, Elementary Schools, NATO
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Kass: Mayor's shell game should have taxpayers clutching their wallets
I've got a feeling that in some weird, alternate universe, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is making a decent living playing hide-the-pea. You know the game, don't you? First, you put your money down. Then Mr. Misdirection places a pea under one of three cups....
Tags: Illinois Governor, Pat Quinn, Chicago Hotels, Basketball, Michele Smith
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Emanuel returns donation from tech firm lobbyist
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has returned a $10,000 campaign donation from a lobbyist for a tech firm disqualified from a city program this week after the Tribune raised questions about potential violations of the mayor's self-imposed limits on political...
Tags: Human Interest, Lobbying, Chicago Mayor, Politics, Elections
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Editorial: The 'missing piece'
Mayor Rahm Emanuel spent much of Thursday fleshing out the funding details for "Elevate Chicago," his grand plan to raise the city's profile as a tourism and convention destination. With an expanded McCormick Place and a re-imagined Navy Pier coming...
Tags: Chicago Hotels, Soldier Field, United Center, Economy, Business and Finance, Travel
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The Kansas City Star Dave Helling column
The Kansas City StarKansas City Mayor Sly James has passed the midway point in his first term, and the grades are pretty good -- other than a slight stumble after the JJ's explosion, when he may have been too quick to defend the city's response. He has been effective,... -
DePaul arena part of Emanuel's $300 million in projects
Beginning the second half of his term this week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel moved to shift the civic conversation away from questions of crime and school closings toward a roster of publicly funded tourism projects, including a DePaul basketball arena at...
Tags: Illinois Governor, Mutual Funds, Basketball, Politics, Personal Weapon Control
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CPS documents raise questions about closings
Making the case to close Ericson Academy on the West Side, Chicago Public Schools officials stressed that it would cost $9.6 million to fix the 51-year-old building. What they didn't point out in materials provided to parents was that they planned to...
Tags: Wicker Park, Energy Saving, Teachers, Chicago Teachers Union, Teaching and Learning
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3 days of marches against school closings planned
With just over a week before the Chicago Board of Education votes on a proposal to close 54 schools, the Chicago Teachers Union and other activist groups said Monday they would hold marches over three days to protest the plan. The marches will begin...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Activism, Teachers, Politics, Chicago Teachers Union
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Dim view on Emanuel education policy, Tribune poll finds
Chicago voters hold a dim view of Rahm Emanuel's stewardship of public education after a tumultuous year that featured a teachers strike and the mayor's push to close many neighborhood elementary schools, a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows....
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Teachers, Chicago Teachers Union
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City contract seekers donate to Emanuel despite his own ban
Leaders of a tech firm seeking a city contract donated $15,000 to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's campaign fund, despite Emanuel's own executive order banning contributions from vendors trying to get city business. The donations linked to a company that uses...
Tags: Advertising, Illinois Governor, Highway Transportation, Nokia Corp., Public Officials
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Emanuel not getting the jobs done?
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has rolled out a stream of what he's billed as pro-business initiatives and stood with dozens of corporations making jobs announcements during his first two years in office, but a clear majority of voters in a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll...
Tags: Unemployment Rate, Barack Obama, Productivity, Entertainment Events, Politics
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