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Another nice win for Chicago’s tech sector. http://www.redeyechicago.com/news/local/ct-yelp-chicago-office-0814-biz-20140814,0,6141875.story
54% blame Daley vs. 21% blaming Rahm. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-rahm-emanuel-richard-daley-met-0814-20140814-story.html
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But Durbin said this: “We’ve had wealthy people, Democrats, who have been elected — John Kennedy, the Rockefellers. I don’t hold wealth against anyone if it’s legally and legitimately earned, and I assume theirs is.” via Class warfare at State Fair as Democrats rally against GOP | Early & Often.
Chicago homeowners saw their property values inch up a bit in recent years. However, property values across Cook County — residential, commercial and industrial — continued to slide, and are one indicator the area remains in the grips of a poor economy. http://politics.suntimes.com/article/chicago/city-home-values-only-glimmer-bleak-cook-property-value-report/wed-08132014-838pm
The UNO Charter School Network board, which was established in June 2013 in the midst a scandal over UNO’s hiring practices, said it will not renew its charter management contract with UNO and will assume all charter school management following the 2014-2015 school year. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-united-neighborhood-organization-no-longer-managing-its-16-charter-schools-20140813-story.html
A group of Chicago firefighters has hired a lawyer in anticipation of a possible legal challenge to a city hiring policy that will give graduates of Chicago public high schools an advantage in an upcoming Fire Department exam. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-fiirefighters-fight-city-hiring-policy-20140813-story.html
In these heavily Republican counties, momentum for Democratic candidates can be hard to come by. Compound that with lower Democratic voter turnout in non-presidential election years, and the fight to “keep Illinois blue” gets even more difficult.
The Illinois horse racing industry believes the time is now to allow gambling at their facilities, or else hundreds of jobs will be on the line. http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Dying-Illinois-Race-Tracks-Seek-Gambling-Expansion-271019981.html
More than 10,000 Illinois residents who bought insurance through Obamacare could have their coverage canceled if they don’t send citizenship and immigration documents to confirm their eligibility by Sept. 5. http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/26272908/10300-illinoisans-health-coverage-in-jeopardy
By: Mark Glennon* Usually, Illinois’ 600-plus municipal pensions are ignored by local papers. Maybe that’s a blessing because, when they try, they often do readers a disservice. This week the Forest Park Review ran a story headlined Police and Fire Pensions in the Healthy Zone. It provides a nice catalog of omissions, misunderstandings and outright errors that plague both the media’s and public’s understanding of the pension crisis. And it’s agreat place for point-by-point exposure of many reasons why the Illinois pension crisis is underestimated, even in towns reported to be healthy. Numbers I’ve used here about Forest
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