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Bike the Drive
Chicagoist- LSD will be blocked off from the Museum of Science & Industry to Foster, which will allow for a nice 15 mile course from the starting point to one end poing and back, or 30 miles for the whole course. While Bike the Drive is on pace to sell out, you can still register online -- for now. So sign up soon if you want to ride! More....
Proposed shift in urban grants creates winners, losers in IL
Federal government wants to target program to neediest areas
Crain’s— The Bush administration wants to target the largest and most flexible federal urban grant program to the neediest areas, shifting money away from more affluent localities.
The measure is bound to be controversial. More.....
Ex-ConsCollect on Overdue Chicago Parking Tickets
TheNewspaper- Released criminals will call and collect money from those the city of Chicago, Illinois believes have not paid their parking tickets.The city of Chicago, Illinois is tapping the persuasive ability of former criminals to collect money from individuals who have not paid a parking ticket. More....
Chicago Works To Make Beaches Cleaner
CBS- If you're not headed out of town, you may want to head to one of Chicago's beaches. They opened Friday with a splash.But as CBS 2’s Vince Gerasole reports, swimmers will have to look out for some new flags this year, which will let the public decide if they want to swim at their own risk depending on bacteria levels in some cases. More....
Poles support undocumented immigrants
Medill- In the weeks following the huge May 1 immigration march in downtown Chicago, undocumented immigrants have garnered sympathy from one of Chicago's largest ethnic groups -- the Poles.
Miroslaw Dmochowski, a 49-year-old truck driver from Logan Square, is one of the 139,000 Polish immigrants living in the Chicago area, nearly one third of the Polish immigrants in the United States. Like many others in the area's large Polish community, Dmochowski, a legal permanent resident of the United States, said he is sympathetic to the plight of illegal immigrants. More....
Subsidized Rental Building Moves Ahead
Globe St.- Although the proposal has the support of the local alderman, 50th Ward Alderman Bernard Stone cast a rare “no” vote Thursday at the city council committee on zoning. “I don’t have to vote on this,” says Stone, who also cast a dissenting vote last week against revised plans for a multifamily rental tower in at Des Plaines and Kinzie streets. “We’re going back to the ‘50s and building what we’ve torn down; I’m not going backward.” More....
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Bike the Drive
Chicagoist- LSD will be blocked off from the Museum of Science & Industry to Foster, which will allow for a nice 15 mile course from the starting point to one end poing and back, or 30 miles for the whole course. While Bike the Drive is on pace to sell out, you can still register online -- for now. So sign up soon if you want to ride! More....
Proposed shift in urban grants creates winners, losers in IL
Federal government wants to target program to neediest areas
Crain’s— The Bush administration wants to target the largest and most flexible federal urban grant program to the neediest areas, shifting money away from more affluent localities.
The measure is bound to be controversial. More.....
Ex-ConsCollect on Overdue Chicago Parking Tickets
TheNewspaper- Released criminals will call and collect money from those the city of Chicago, Illinois believes have not paid their parking tickets.The city of Chicago, Illinois is tapping the persuasive ability of former criminals to collect money from individuals who have not paid a parking ticket. More....
Chicago Works To Make Beaches Cleaner
CBS- If you're not headed out of town, you may want to head to one of Chicago's beaches. They opened Friday with a splash.But as CBS 2’s Vince Gerasole reports, swimmers will have to look out for some new flags this year, which will let the public decide if they want to swim at their own risk depending on bacteria levels in some cases. More....
Poles support undocumented immigrants
Medill- In the weeks following the huge May 1 immigration march in downtown Chicago, undocumented immigrants have garnered sympathy from one of Chicago's largest ethnic groups -- the Poles.
Miroslaw Dmochowski, a 49-year-old truck driver from Logan Square, is one of the 139,000 Polish immigrants living in the Chicago area, nearly one third of the Polish immigrants in the United States. Like many others in the area's large Polish community, Dmochowski, a legal permanent resident of the United States, said he is sympathetic to the plight of illegal immigrants. More....
Subsidized Rental Building Moves Ahead
Globe St.- Although the proposal has the support of the local alderman, 50th Ward Alderman Bernard Stone cast a rare “no” vote Thursday at the city council committee on zoning. “I don’t have to vote on this,” says Stone, who also cast a dissenting vote last week against revised plans for a multifamily rental tower in at Des Plaines and Kinzie streets. “We’re going back to the ‘50s and building what we’ve torn down; I’m not going backward.” More....
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