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Showing posts with label finance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finance. Show all posts
Friday, March 21, 2025

Block Club Chi: 1 In 5 Chicagoans Will Lose Access To CTA, Pace, Metra If State Doesn’t Fund Public Transit, RTA Says

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transitchicago.com Any concerns about this current transit fiscal crisis ?  The Regional Transit Authority oversees Metra, Pace, and the Chi...
Saturday, September 9, 2023

Red Line extension gets $2 billion, one step closer to reality

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Well this is what the Sun-Times says that $2 billion is pledged towards. The $3.7 billion Red Line extension has “advanced to the final pha...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Sun-Times: Altgeld Gardens Commercial Building

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Via WisconsinHistory.org Since I mentioned Altgeld Gardens a few days ago on this blog, I found this Sun-Times article on an architecturall...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

Union National Bank Christmas Club record via Vanished Chicagoland #tbt

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 Here's another Throwback Thursday post, and a far more timely one. A Christmas Club record book from the former Union Nat'l Bank fo...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Does CPS need police officers at their schools?

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[ VIDEO ] Alderman Roderick Sawyer (Ward 6) speaks with WGN on a proposal to remove Chicago Police from CPS schools. A couple of things that...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

CBS Chicago: Some Aldermen Call For Defunding Police

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[ VIDEO ] In light of the recent unrest and the spark that caused it the death of George Floyd in police custody many cities around the nati...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

WBEZ: 5 Things To Know About Chicago Public Schools’ Budget

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WBEZ : Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and CPS CEO Janice Jackson heralded the new mayor’s first proposed budget for the school district earlie...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Tribune: Politics, funding impede Pullman restoration as monument approaches 3rd anniversary

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Via The Chicago Neighborhoods This Tribune article updates us on the progress of that Pullman National Monument announced by then President...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Route of future Red Line extension has been determined

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[ VIDEO ] The long awaited extension continues to move forward with a specific routing south to 130th Street on the far south side of Chicag...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Curbed Chi: Proposed Trump budget could threaten Chicago’s mass transit network

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Future 103rd St. Red Line stop A variety of transit projects in our fair city could be on the gun but I want to emphasize one project that ...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Capitol Fax: Yet another failure

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10001 South Woodlawn Ave This "failure" is located at the south side's Olive Harvey College located east of the Bishop Ford -...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Yesterday on the Capitol Fax #notaprison

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FYI : An update to this is seen on the Capitol Fax this morning one new pic of that classroom provided by a spokeswoman from CPS which is i...
Friday, October 23, 2015

CPS enrollment: Drops, rises and consequences

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Vi a @ ChiTribGraphics A page you should look at via Chicago Tribune . That in addition to the graphic above: Chicago Public Schools release...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Tribune: Aldermen turn up heat on CPS' bond deals

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Ald. Thomas by Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune I was amazed to see that Ald. Latasha Thomas of ward 17 is leading this charge . I'm wonde...
Monday, July 7, 2014

Tribune: Starting this fall, free breakfasts, lunches available for all CPS students

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I can't believe according to this article , school lunches in elementary school could go for $2.45 on average. When I went to Bennett-Sh...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Education Nation: How Will Chicago Pay For Strike Deal?

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From the Education Nation section of our local NBC affiliate: How much will the new contract cost? Pay raises and hiring nearly 500 new tea...