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Governor's Budget Reaction

The president of the Commercial Club of Chicago says that if a private company operated as Illinois does, it would have been bankrupt and out of business long ago. We hear from Commercial Club President Eden Martin about the club's reaction to Governor Quinn's budget plan, unveiled yesterday.

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Enforcement of Landscape Ordinance Comes at a Bad Time

For the owner of a Humboldt Park auto repair shop who lost 25 percent of his sales this year, paying $50,000 to fix up the parking lot of his business to comply with the city’s landscaping ordinance would be difficult. Joe D. Perrotta, co-owner of King Transmission at 4152 West Grand Avenue, said he had never [...]

White Women Influencing Shift to Minority-Majority Nation

Sarah Elder is obvious evidence of a rotten economy, laid off as a social worker at a Park Ridge residential facility for foster children. But as she makes ends meet, working at a North Side bakery cafe while taking classes at night, Ms. Elder, 26, is a member of a little-known, declining demographic in the Chicago [...]

Budget Woes Have Schools Expecting the Worst

In Elgin on Monday night, it is not going to matter who is bluffing, winning or losing in the heated debate under way in Springfield over the state’s gargantuan budget hole. The legislature may argue for months over Gov. Patrick J. Quinn’s proposed $1.3 billion in education cuts and his plan to raise state income taxes, [...]