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- Take opportunity to make Illinois a true innovator
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- It's been about five months since federal stimulus dollars were dispersed, and everyone's analyzing whether the funding is creating enough — and the right — jobs.
Recovery funding was intended to boost a weak market, so counting jobs is one measure of success. But the American Recovery…
- Jammed
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- This is the first installment in a three-part
series
for Chicago Matters: Growing
Forward.
This year’s Chicago Matters--the award-winning multimedia public affairs
series made possible by The Chicago Community Trust with programming from WTTW
11, Chicago Public Radio, the Chicago Public…
- Watch your wallets
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- By the
time former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Southern Illinois University
President Glenn Poshard had completed their "listening tour" of the state, the $25 billion
public works plan they were stumping for had grown to $31 billion, sprinkled with
sweeteners
to win the favor of…
- Watch your wallets
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- By the
time former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Southern Illinois University
President Glenn Poshard had completed their "listening tour" of the state, the $25 billion
public works plan they were stumping for had grown to $31 billion, sprinkled with
sweeteners
to win the favor of…
- Good idea on transportation funding
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- We have
used this space to chide the governor and lawmakers for lack of progress in
enacting a capital improvement plan to fix up roads and schools and improve mass
transit.
We can't
think of a single reason why such a plan should remain stalled in
Springfield
.
Except one.…
- Grant Park idea panned
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- Planning council objects as Children's Museum set to seek city planners' OK
- Info Junkie: Growth watcher
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- MarySue Barrett, 43, is president of
the non-profit, pro-growth Metropolitan Planning Council
and tracks planning
and development issues, politics and intrigue. Where she looks:
Rich Miller's
www.thecapitolfaxblog.com
for
"who's angry at whom, the substance and…
- The long ride
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- Meeting suburban mass transit needs
means a fundamental change in the way it is provided, transportation officials
said.
Decades ago it was
enough to connect the suburbs- where people lived- with
downtown
Chicago- where many suburbanites
worked.
But
employers are…
- Eat your green
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- I never was big on peas, or lima
beans for that matter. I still don't like 'em — does anyone really like lima
beans? — but eventually the adults in the family got across the idea that fruits
and veggies are part of what it takes to be healthy.
So is there anyone in
Illinois
…
- Deal clears way for 12 Oaks development
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- The residents of the 12 Oaks at Woodfield finally have some answers, but a
recently forged contract for the Rolling Meadows property is likely to leave
plenty more questions in its wake.
After months of uncertainty, a very preliminary contract was signed between
Centex Corp. and Mike…
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