Chicago trashes symbol of political machine
Chicago’s new Grid Garbage Transition marks a dramatic change for city refuse collection. Its workings were left largely unchanged in the past 100 years.
Chicago’s new Grid Garbage Transition marks a dramatic change for city refuse collection. Its workings were left largely unchanged in the past 100 years.
Chicago’s data team develops futuristic tools with names like “Project Unicorn” and “Project Batman” and challenges civic-minded residents — and hackers — to glean ways to improve the city using data.
Increasingly, Chicago aldermen and department heads cite data before making decisions. As Mayor Emanuel deepens that commitment, we profile the community that is pressed hardest for digital tools and decision-making and ask whether there’s more to be done.
Businesses along a corner of Blue Island’s Olde Western Ave play up heritage and blue collar ethos in development. A little help from Village Hall, they say, wouldn’t hurt, either.
Chicago Transit Authority president Forrest Claypool had some biting words for the Chicago Sun-Times — over an investigation on CTA crime that he characterized as “false and misleading.”
Utilizing a report issued by the White House, we’ve made a graphic that breaks down the potential areas of Illinois’ government that would be affected by the sequester. Key areas include: Education, military, public health, law enforcement and job training assistance.
More than 131,000 households will get blue cart recycling services in March and April, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office announced on Wednesday.
The release of the school names has started another round of debates as the potential closures were more acute in neighborhoods already grappling with economic and violent crime issues, specifically the Austin, Humboldt Park, South Shore, Englewood, West Englewood and North Lawndale communities.
News of Chicago’s connection to Mexican drug cartels is making the rounds. WBEZ asked the city’s top narcotics cop to explain how the drug cartels operate.