Showing posts with label East Side. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East Side. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Who benefits from casino locations?

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Chicago is finally going to be able to have a casino operating within the city limits, yet that doesn’t mean the politically partisan infigh...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Another piece of Chicago’s industry moves to far sout’east corner of city

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Reports of a company that shreds scrap metal choosing to locate along the Calumet River in Chicago’s 10 th Ward really isn’t that surprisin...
Monday, July 2, 2018

EXTRA: Minimum wage continues to rise for fortunate few who work in Chi

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I have known of teenagers who live in Indiana in the areas just along the state line with Illinois who always made a point of getting those ...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Cat food in the beef tacos? Or just nitwit nonsense from the nativists?

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Perhaps I’m just taking trivial trash on Facebook far too seriously. But I have been getting outraged by a page meant to celebrate a pair of...
Friday, December 2, 2016

How long until proposed Red Line extension turns local tempers all “red?”

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It is one of those projects that has been discussed for years – extending the Chicago Transit Authority elevated commuter train lines deepe...
Monday, September 5, 2016

Labor Day is what we make of it

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What should we make of Labor Day? The event that will provoke various celebrations of assorted types that probably say more about our own vi...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

What a plunge!!! Was it worth it?

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It’s not something we hear that much of – a suicidal jump off the Chicago Skyway into the Calumet River. That's quite a plunge from ...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Memorial Day “Massacre” a bad memory of how ugly labor tensions once were, and don't need to go back to

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Perhaps it’s all appropriate that this Memorial Day holiday weekend comes right as tensions between organized labor and Illinois’ new Republ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Does your neighborhood “matter enough” to get mention by Old Navy?

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I still remember a dispute I had once with one of my editors at the City News Bureau of Chicago of old with regards to identifying neighborh...