Cocoposts (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Joe Shirley Jr. is channeling Mayor Richard J. Daley. Although to be fair, since reading the aforementioned 600 page biography my head feels thick, my face feels jowly and everyone sounds like Daley. I think I saw him in Smith's...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Mayor Richard M. Daley held a closed-door meeting with Bank of America officials at City Hall today, two days after the bank and a group of lenders moved to foreclose on the retail and transit portion of the star-crossed Block 37 development on State Street. The foreclosure lawsuit came just weeks before the first stores were finally scheduled to open in a development with a history...
OpenlineBlog.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is in such deep trouble these days with a fiscal crisis, crumbling transit, increasing crime and no solutions in sight, he's raiding the funds from the parking meter fiasco and hitting things like the popular Venetian Night, which was started by his father, Mayor Richard J. Daley.
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... are: --Kennedy King College, 740 W. 63rd St. --Olive Harvey College, 10001 S. Woodlawn Ave. --Richard J. Daley College, 7500 S. Pulaski Rd. --Truman College, 1145 W. Wilson Ave. --Arturo Velasquez Institute, 2800 S. Western Ave. --Wright College, 4300 N. Narragansett Ave. --Malcolm X College, 1900 W. Van Buren St. The Malcolm X College site is open Saturdays only, while the other...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Detractors compare Tom Menino to the late Richard J. Daley, who ruled Chicago for 21 years, the last of the big-city bosses. But Menino’s style also resembles that of William Donald Schaefer, a political free spirit who governed Baltimore for 16 years in the 1970s and ’80s, famous for phoning in fix-it orders for problems he spotted around the city.
Cocoposts (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Just finished reading American Pharaoh, Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation, by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor. This is not just a biography. Because of his position as boss and builder of Chicago for so...
Editor And Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... Anita Alvarez, Esq. State's Attorney Cook County State's Attorney's Office 500 Richard J. Daley Center Chicago, IL 60602 Dear Ms. Alvarez: The American Society of News Editors writes to convey its disappointment with your decision to subpoena records relating to investigations made by students in the Medill Innocence Project at Northwestern University into the criminal conviction...
The Chicago Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... 57th Street books . 57th Street's five selections: The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon, Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago by Mike Royko, Division Street: America by Studs Terkel, as well as two recently published by the Press: Neil Harris's The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age , and D. Bradford Hunt's newly released Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public...
Gateway Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Waiting in line for health care. Some of the 1,200 people who braved rain and 39 degree (3 degrees Celcius) temperatures queue to receive a free H1N1 flu vaccine at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago October 24, 2009. (Reuters) Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency today. Over 1,000 people have died from [...]
Religio-Political Talk (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
(Gateway Pundit h/t-import)Some of the 1,200 people who braved rain and 39 degree (3 degrees Celcius) temperatures queue to receive a free H1N1 flu vaccine at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago October 24, 2009. (Reuters) Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency today. Over 1,000 people have died from the swine flu in the US this year.The AP reported: President...
Second City Cop (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Bread and circuses winding down? Venetian Night — Chicago’s annual parade of illuminated boat floats that draws up to 500,000 people to the lakefront — could be sunk, thanks to cost-cutting tied to Mayor Daley’s 2010 budget. Special Events Director Megan McDonald said the decision to end a time-honored tradition that dates back to the days of former Mayor Richard...
Time (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Waiting for the Vaccine: Scenes from an H1N1 EmergencyBy Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009Some 1,200 people brave rain and 39°F temperatures to receive a free H1N1 flu vaccine at Richard J. Daley College in ChicagoFrank Polich / ReutersMOREAdd to my:Blog this on:Shortly before 9 a.m. last Saturday, more than 400 people waited in line outside the Balboa Sports Complex in Encino, Calif., anxious to...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
As the city prepared to open free clinics to dispense H1N1 swine flu vaccinations at six City College locations Saturday morning, health officials cautioned that the supply is more limited than they had hoped and that it would be reserved only for high-risk population groups. The vaccines being administered are part of the 150,000 doses of the vaccine the city Health Department has received thus far...
ArchitectureChicago PLUS (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
About a week ago, Cecil Adams The Straight Dope Chicago tackled why so few movies were filmed in Chicago during the reign of Richard J. Daley in the 60's and 70's. Adams cited the then Chicago mayor's antipathy to how productions such as the popular The Untouchables television series reinforced Al Capone gangster stereotypes. Still a few films slipped by, most prominently Haskell Wexler's...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... offer the vaccinations three times a week for four weeks. The clinics are at Kennedy-King, Olive , Richard J. Daley, Truman and Wright Colleges and at Arturo Velasquez Institute every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and every Tuesday and Thursday from 3 to 8 p.m.Mason said most people should get vaccinations from their family doctors as they come available.Hundreds of parents were...
