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Letters: Shame on aldermen looking to strip power from inspector general
It is incredible that in the year 2016 dinosaurs like Ald. Carrie Austin and Ald. Ed Burke can torpedo good government attempts to bring best practices and transparency to city government. Government...
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Morgan Murphy Jr. dies; ex-congressman had failed casino dreams
Morgan Murphy Jr. fought international drug trafficking during five terms in the U.S. House before investing in several business ventures that garnered negative attention and litigation. Among them was...
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Sneed: Baseball dream becomes real for ailing Chicago cop
The good earth. To Chicago police Officer Anthony Letizia, it’s an eight- inch-by-eight-inch piece of sod, a patch of baseball field he planned to visit before he died. An avid Cubs fan, Letizia, 32,...
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Sneed: Rahm likely to ban city travel to N.C. over LGBT issue
Sneed Exclusive…. Ka-ching! Sneed hears Mayor Rahm Emanuel is likely to issue an executive order barring non-essential municipal travel to North Carolina, which just passed a law that the City...
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Sneed: Could high scores on lieutenant’s exam be cheating?
The eraser set . . . It’s confidential. It’s shocking. Sources tell Sneed an ongoing internal Chicago Police Department probe — which has been affixed a “confidential” complaint registry number —...
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Strip club ordinance does not make Chicago a world-class city
Follow @csteditorials West Side Ald. Emma Mitts (37th) is pushing a new ordinance about booze in strip clubs that she says would make Chicago a “more world-class city.” If so, this is a world to which...
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Finance Committee signs off on $6.5M in police abuse settlements
Chicago aldermen on Monday authorized $6.5 million in settlements for two more egregious cases of police abuse but not before a three-hour debate conspicuously absent after the $5 million settlement...
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Sneed: Questions for Trump to clear up
The Trump corner . . . Shall we talk Donald squawk? Sneed is told presumed GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is planning a little “down time” next week. “It will finally give him time to be freer...
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Sneed: Newly named Jane Byrne Park now in full bloom
Happy Mother’s Day! It’s up, finally! It’s done. The city’s legendary Water Tower Park has finally sprouted a new sign honoring the city’s nearly forgotten only female mayor. The stamp-sized garden...
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Sneed exclusive: Former U.S. attorney general sides with Uber
Holder the phone! Former U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is wading into the rideshare debate in Chicago. Sneed has learned Holder, the nation’s first African-American attorney general, has...
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Mihalopoulos: To calm ward, Burke should tell Trump ‘I’m fired!’
It’s a long way, geographically and culturally, from Donald Trump’s downtown skyscraper to Ald. Ed Burke’s 14th Ward. Along Pulaski Road in Burke’s ward, opening a checking account or getting a used...
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Chicago urges protected status for Ecuadorean immigrants
After heartbreaking testimony from Ecuadorean immigrants whose families were torn apart by a devastating earthquake, Chicago on Wednesday joined the call for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to...
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Sneed: Mike Pence has deep Chicago ties
Donald Trump may have chosen a lifelong Hoosier as his running mate, but Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has strong Chicago ties. Pence, the grandson of a Chicago bus driver, is now ready to get on board the...
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Burke’s street plowed early, often: IG report says
Streets and Sanitation plows deviated from their normal course to clear a path to Ald. Ed Burke’s fortress-like house after a major winter storm last year, City Hall’s inspector general said Monday....
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Brown: Baby T steps into political spotlight at DNC
PHILADELPHIA — Another generation of the Burke family is making his first baby steps into politics at the Democratic National Convention. Travis Burke, the adopted son of Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th)...
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Sneed: Obama presidential library will be in Jackson Park
The library card . . . PHILADELPHIA — Sneed’s exclusive tip Wednesday that the site of President Barack Obama’s Presidential Center and Library was going to be located on Chicago’s South Side at...
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Sneed: Ed Burke’s son not looking to follow his dad into politics
All in the family . . . Following in his father’s footsteps? Well, sort of. • Translation: Travis Burke, 20, an Illinois delegate to the Democratic National Convention — who gained centerstage when...
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Burke urges CPD to make QuickClot Combat Gauze standard issue
When Chicago Police partners Alejandro Cabral and Juan Zuniga responded to the scene of a gas station shooting in the South Side’s gang-ridden Bush neighborhood, their adrenaline and military training...
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Mihalopoulos: Firm sued for treating O’Hare janitors like dirt
Four years after Mayor Rahm Emanuel shrugged off critics and signed a $99.4 million deal with a janitorial firm to clean O’Hare Airport, the contractor has agreed to pay nearly $850,000 to settle a...
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Sneed: Kris Bryant jersey ripped off from BGA
Follow @sneedlings Hey! Hey! The city’s top watchdog wasn’t watching! Let’s rebake this cake. Sneed is told an autographed jersey of sizzling hot Cubbie Kris Bryant, which fetched $2,500 at the annual...
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