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Bronzeville residents are trying to improve access to their community, hoping it will spur development and help residents gain better access to rest of the city.
1 day ago | By Megan Cottrell
CHA will start requiring all public housing residents to get a job come January. They'll get more hlep finding day care for their children as they head off to work.
6 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Gov. Rod Blagojevich cut millions from the city's substance abuse and mental health treatment programs. Health advocates are urging him to restore funding.
7 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
The committee hearing on the proposed city-wide mobile billboard ban has been delayed twice since it was introduced back in September. It's unclear whether the committee will take it up this month.
8 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Eighty-seven percent of Bronzeville voters casts votes urging the mayor and the 2016 Olympic Committee to set aside 26 percent of the 1,800 vacant lots in the neighborhood for middle-income homeownership.
13 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
North West residents vote to raise taxes to fund the North River Mental Health Center. The tax increase will raise $500,000 for the project.
13 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Obama traced his path from unlikely contender to president-elect, lavishing praise on many of the Chicagoans who helped him make that journey.
14 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
As President-elect Barack Obama prepared to depart a downtown hotel to speak at Grant Park, crowds packed the sidewalk, hugging strangers, crying, and smoking cigars.
14 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Every so often, a spontaneous cheer ripples through the crowd at Grant Park -- apparently for no reason at all.
14 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Barack Obama's candidacy captured their enthusiasm, and their votes, in a way few local campaigns could. About 100 people were at one polling spot when it opened this morning.
14 days ago | By Marcie Hill
The Attorney General's office is investigating problems at several polling places in the city. Officials urge voter with complaints to call the investigators'hotline at 1-866-536-3496.
14 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
The newly formed Illinois Council of Students strives to transcend school district boundaries and funding disparities that separate them. CPS spends $10,000 per student, compared to $17,000 at suburban school districts.
15 days ago | By Natasha Wasinski
Candidates can't seem to agree whether the county even needs a Recorder of Deeds position. One would eliminate the post, while another would cut employees.
18 days ago | By Martin Miller
Technology and lost files figure prominently in the race for Clerk of the Circuit Court. Incumbent Dorothy Brown has held the position since 2000 and was the first African American elected to the job.
18 days ago | By Martin Miller
The State's Attorney's office is as important as this year’s race for it has been nasty. At stake is the job prosecuting crimes within the second largest county in the United States.
18 days ago | By Claire Bushey
