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"Chicago ain't no sissy town." - Hinky Dink Kenna, Chicago politician 1857-1946

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July 2008
- Chicago Transit Explores Groceries in Train Stations
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Jul 17, 08 2:00 PM CDT
  
  The Chicago Transit Authority is looking make more money from the real estate it owns, and is investigating installing grocery stores and restaurants inside “L” (elevated train) stations, the Tribune reports—with the agency hoping to generate $100 million over the next 5 years from such commercial development. "People could get off directly inside the grocery store and go shopping without ever going outside," one official says. More »
- MillerCoors Taps Chicago for New Headquarters
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Jul 16, 08 2:25 PM CDT
  
  Chicago will be home to the new corporate headquarters of beer conglomerate MillerCoors, the Tribune reports. The Windy City edged out Dallas to serve as a neutral location for the nerve center of Denver-based Molson Coors and Milwaukee-based Miller. Chicago attracted MillerCoors because it has "access to an attractive base of talent, transportation and business resources," company president Tom Long said. More »
- How Chicago Made Obama a Politician
  
  newser | New Yorker | Jul 15, 08 3:00 PM CDT
  
  Behind the New Yorker ’s fist-bumping Barack Obama cover, Ryan Lizza chronicles the Democrat’s political education in Chicago, where competing imperatives from the city’s fundraising elite, black urban base, and Daley-down political hierarchy taught him how to massage the system—and learn the kind of political evasion that opponents are beginning to detect. More »
- Chicago Tribune Editor Resigns Amid Cutbacks
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 14, 08 3:58 PM CDT
  
  Chicago Tribune editor Ann Marie Lipinski handed in her resignation today after 7 years in the top post at the Tribune Company's flagship paper. Lipinski's departure comes a week after the 161-year-old newspaper told its staff it would eliminate about 80 newsroom jobs amid a broad effort to cut costs as advertising and circulation revenues decline at its newspapers nationwide. More »
- Chicago Ties Sustain Obama
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 14, 08 8:47 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama’s Chicago home base has provided the candidate with a wealth of influential allies who serve him in a variety of ways, from the political to the personal, the Washington Post reports. While some play official campaign roles or are informal advisers, others keep Obama grounded on his beloved basketball court. Either way, they must follow two rules: No drama and no leaks. More »
- Die-Hard Cubs Fans to Get Final Waiting Place
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 12, 08 11:00 AM CDT
  
  When the last living Cubs fan to have seen his team win the World Series passed away in April at age 106, fans willing to wait a lifetime realized a lifetime may not be long enough. One is now preparing the field of their dreams in a Chicago cemetery, the AP reports, where 280 "eternal skyboxes" will be available in a replica of Wrigley Field's center wall. More »
- Obama Found His Identity in Chicago's Gritty South Side
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 7, 08 7:16 AM CDT
  
  Between graduating college and starting Harvard Law School, Barack Obama spent three years working as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side. As he learned how to rally and mobilize people to progressive causes, he also developed a greater understanding of his identity as an African American. The New York Times examines that formative period in the candidate's life. More »
- Obama Got 'Good Deal' on Mortgage
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 2, 08 11:32 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama is taking heat for accepting a better-than-average interest rate that saves him $300 a month on his $1.32 million mortgage, the Washington Post reports. The 30-year, fixed 5.625% rate on the Democrat's Chicago home was under the 6% being offered other buyers in June 2005 by Northern Trust, and included no origination fee or discount points. More »
June 2008
- Frank, Chicago Isn't Your Kind of Town Anymore
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Jun 28, 08 2:28 PM CDT
  
  The gritty home of the Bulls and Bears is turning soft, Radley Balko gripes in the Chicago Tribune . The Windy City has developed a nasty case of paternalism that’s trampling the rights of its people to smoke, drink, and eat trans fats freely—and even ranked last in a poll gauging the freedoms of America's most-populated cities. More »
- NRA Sues San Francisco, Chicago Over Gun Laws
  
  newser | San Francisco Chronicle | Jun 28, 08 9:33 AM CDT
  
  Close on the heels of the Supreme Court ruling that Americans have the right to own guns for self-defense, the National Rifle Association filed suits yesterday against San Francisco and Chicago over gun-control laws in those cities. In San Francisco, the NRA hopes to overturn a law keeping guns out of public housing, and in Chicago, to end a ban on gun ownership, the San Francisco Chronicle and Chicago Tribune report. More »
- Chicago Watchful for Second Helping of Tainted Taste
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Jun 27, 08 1:56 PM CDT
  
  With news still coming of people stricken by tomatoes tainted with salmonella, health officials say they're taking full precautions to prevent another outbreak at this year's Taste of Chicago, the Tribune reports. Booths will be inspected four times a day for sanitary conditions at the event, which begins today—though authorities warn they don't test actual dishes for safety. More »
- Gun Ruling Sends Chicago Mayor Into Rage
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Jun 26, 08 12:08 PM CDT
  
  Today’s Supreme Court ruling striking down a handgun ban in Washington, DC, is “a very frightening decision,” says Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, vowing to fight for Chicago’s own strict gun law, which will likely now be challenged. Mayors across the country must protect their cities, Daley said, predicting that most will be outraged by the decision, the Tribune reports. More »
- For Sale: Chicago Landmark
  
  newser | Chicago Sun Times | Jun 25, 08 9:44 PM CDT
  
  Saddled by debt from his acquisition of the Tribune Company media empire, billionaire Sam Zell may sell off the iconic Chicago headquarters of the Tribune newspaper, he said yesterday. The 83-year-old Tribune Tower could fetch $250 million, analysts told the Sun-Times , with Zell likely needing to assure a new owner that the newspaper would continue to occupy the building on a long-term lease to fetch maximum value. More »
- Gator Caught—in Chicago?
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Jun 21, 08 5:32 AM CDT
  
  Alligator wranglers may not be the busiest of folks in metro Chicago, but they came through yesterday by yanking a 5-foot unwelcome visitor out of the Chicago River, the Tribune reports. The healthy female, probably a discarded pet, is on her way to a sanctuary in the Southeast. More »
- Chicago Fines Aim to Kick Smokers' Butts From Beach
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Jun 18, 08 11:43 AM CDT
  
  Chicago will fine smokers who toss cigarette butts on the beach—or within 15 feet of one— up to $500. The new law is aimed at cutting the cost of cleaning up after smokers, who have been forced outside by smoking bans, reports the Chicago Tribune. Millions of tons of butts are cleared from beaches every year. More »
- Obama Shifts DNC Power to Chicago
  
  newser | Politico | Jun 13, 08 11:01 AM CDT
  
  The Democratic National Committee is moving its field operations to Chicago as part of Barack Obama's strategy to centralize the party and streamline efforts for the general election. The move has been welcomed publicly by the DNC, even though it clearly shifts power from Washington to Obama's unassuming headquarters in the Windy City, Politico notes. Chicago hasn't had such national political focus since the 1968 convention. More »
- Note to Right: Hyde Park Is Neither Liberal nor Elite
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 11, 08 1:23 PM CDT
  
  With the right cranking up to use Obama's Chicago neighborhood as a weapon against him—the Weekly Standard depicting it in a long piece as an liberal elitist bastion —Wall Street Journal columnist (and former Barack neighbor) Thomas Frank says it’s complete bunk. Not only do Hyde Park-ers have a median income below the national and Chicago medians, but if the college town has a political legacy, it’s a conservative one! More »
- What Hyde Park Tells Us About Obama
  
  newser | Weekly Standard | Jun 9, 08 7:37 PM CDT
  
  "It is the most racially integrated neighborhood in the nation's most racially segregated city," Andrew Ferguson writes in the Weekly Standard of the area in south Chicago Barack Obama calls home. It's a college town, a lefty enclave where the moneyed mix with boho bookworms, and "NPR announcer" types walk the streets wearing wire rims and backpacks. But Hyde Park isn't an ordinary college town, it's an unusually isolated one—an island in the middle of a slum. More »
- Sam Zell: Saving Newspapers, or Burying Them?
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 9, 08 5:58 AM CDT
  
  Sam Zell and his Tribune Company announced last week that they would trim 500 pages of news each week from the conglomerate's dozen newspapers, including the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune . But is a paper split 50-50 between news and ads the solution for an industry in crisis? The New York Times looks at the viability of a radical plan. More »
- Honey, I'm Shrinking the Tribune Papers
  
  newser | Chicago Sun-Times | Jun 6, 08 4:42 AM CDT
  
  Publisher Sam Zell has announced he'll quickly slash pages and more editorial jobs to offset huge debts and a larger-than-anticipated decline in advertising revenue at his newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune . An 80-page edition of the Tribune could be sliced to 48 pages, reports the Chicago Sun-Times . The papers have already lost a significant number of staffers to buyouts. More »

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