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29 Dec 2006, 11:29 am
But Mayor Richard Daley is no fan of the ban--just this week, he called it "the silliest law" the City Council has ever passed. [read post]
28 Dec 2006, 10:02 am
(Even a Mayor of Chicago once discovered that too much snow is fatal to a political career, and elsewhere in the Midwest the success of the fall leaf-removal campaign is the standard by which the people evaluate their mayors.* * * This is one reason why Andrew Jackson campaigned for making judicial posts elective and why most states to this day allow the voters a say in who holds judicial office. [read post]
22 Dec 2006, 2:16 pm
• Cleveland Mayor Frank Johnson announces that Cleveland police officers will start recording all statements of suspects and witnesses in homicide and rape cases. [read post]
20 Dec 2006, 8:37 pm
Today's WSJ (sub-only) carries a letter from senior fellow Maureen Martin of Chicago's Heartland Institute mentioning this site, and quoting from Greg Dwyer's "letter from a new father" of Nov. 14, all in the course of arguing that a backlash may be afoot against the new food nannyism typified by Mayor Bloomberg's trans fat ban. [read post]
20 Dec 2006, 9:50 am
The permit was issued to a group of Christian attorneys and custodians of the existing Nativity display.The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, in a release circulated by e-mail this morning, says that the new decision came in "a matter of minutes" after the Becket Fund presented its Ebenezer Award on television to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. [read post]
18 Dec 2006, 1:52 pm
The plan has come to naught, according to this story today in the Chicago Tribune. [read post]
13 Dec 2006, 6:47 am
Some quotes:Sophisticated but not intelligent: That's how a federal appeals court described the criminal tax evasion scheme that sent former East Chicago consultant James Fife to prison until 2009. [read post]
12 Dec 2006, 7:49 am
Finding no error in the district court's sentencing determination, we affirm.Of interest is discussion of the defendant's background, which begins:Fife, a lawyer, served as the special assistant to the mayor of East Chicago, Indiana from the mid-1990's until 2003. [read post]
10 Dec 2006, 5:39 am
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley said police did a "tremendous" job.The three murder victims are McKenna (58, a graduate of Kent Law), Allen J. [read post]
29 Nov 2006, 6:04 am
From Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass: And lo, City Hall ordered the heralds to cry the mayoral decree from the top of every two-flat and skyscraper in his domain:No advertising of the movie "The Nativity Story"... [read post]
28 Nov 2006, 2:26 pm
Yesterday the City of Chicago successfully pushed the German American Chamber of Commerce to drop New Line Cinema's The Nativity Story as a sponsor the traditional German Christkindlmarket. [read post]
28 Nov 2006, 7:14 am
Turns out to be Chicago, which has refused to sponsor a Christmas festival because one of its co-sponsors is the new movie, The Nativity Story: CHICAGO - A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas... [read post]
28 Nov 2006, 4:12 am
One of the special events scheduled between Thanksgiving and Christmas in Chicago's downtown Daley Plaza is Christkindlmarket, organized by the German American Chamber of Commerce. [read post]
31 Oct 2006, 3:52 am
Famous executions included those of Patrick Prendergast, a journalist hanged in 1894 for assassinating Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison, and Johann Otto Hoch, a serial killer who used aliases to marry and then murder at least 50 women.... [read post]
1 Oct 2006, 6:17 am
"The Green Machine" follows Mayor Richard M. [read post]
25 Sep 2006, 7:21 am
Y si no lo suspende, y la cosa pasa a mayores, todos lo harán responsable. [read post]
17 Sep 2006, 2:24 pm
Mark Steyn, in the Chicago Sun Times, here, takes note of the carefully passive tone of the 9-11 five year remembrances. [read post]
27 Jul 2006, 9:18 am
There will be court battles ahead or perhaps a mayoral veto. [read post]
11 Jun 2006, 9:00 pm
" Now for a politician who seems to understand Ole Ben just fine, we have New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg giving the commencement speech at the University of Chicago. [read post]
31 Mar 2006, 9:55 am
In Chicago, a City Councilmen was convicted in the fall 2004 of coordinating an illegal project to buy votes for former Mayor Robert Pastrick's administration in the 1999 primary election by giving away free concrete driveways, patios and sidewalks. [read post]
