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Thursday, Mar 27, 2008 - Posted by Kevin Fanning

* Downtown CTA stop to get $67 mil. facelift

* Court fight threatened over Children’s Museum

Mayor Daley has the 26 votes he needs to win City Council approval of a new, $100 million Children’s Museum in Grant Park, according to influential aldermen, but opponents are threatening a protracted court fight to block construction.

* Under the pressure, it finally cracks

Motorola Inc. intends to reinvigorate its floundering business by spinning itself off into two separate companies while still maintaining its suburban and Chicago operations, the company announced Wednesday.

* Elk Grove Village officials lament apparent Chicago victory in O’Hare land game

* County will lobby for its portion of capital bill

* Michael Jordan’s ex-lover stymied by Illinois Supreme Court

The Illinois Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to hear an appeal in the long-running legal dispute between Michael Jordan and a former lover who claims the retired superstar promised her $5 million.

* Longtime judge was known for his integrity

* ‘Earth Hour’ campaign will dim lights on Chicago landmarks

* State begins assessing flood damage in 19 counties

* Union files charge against school

Illinois’ largest teacher’s union has filed a charge against the Cambridge Lakes Charter School for a Feb. 25 meeting at which the union claims the school violated teachers’ right to organize.

* Legislator pushes bill to help Fairmount

* Proposed bill for state buildings to go green

Representative Mike Boland’s law would require new state offices and buildings constructed with 40 % of state money, to be built with energy-efficiency in mind.

* Rutherford pushing for recall amendment

* Bill would extend child-porn reporting requirement to computer techs

* One degree of Stuart Levine

* 2nd Blago fundraiser to go to trial

Today a federal judge set a trial date for Chris Kelly, former fund-raiser to Gov. Blagojevich.
Kelly’s trial is set for Nov. 10.

* State gets bids for Collinsville hotel

* SIUC coal plant study details to be discussed

* Political consultant convicted of perjury

* Ozinga prepares for election

* Green candidate gets into race to succeed Rep. LaHood

* Keyes bolts GOP; announces yet another presidential bid

* Meghan McCain has offbeat campaign blog

7 Comments

- Leroy - Thursday, Mar 27, 08 @ 9:42 am:
Wow…new stations…new tracking systems…flat panel TV in buses & trains….facelifts…glad all that ‘doomsday’ nonsense is finally behind us!

Granite floors ho!

- Plutocrat03 - Thursday, Mar 27, 08 @ 10:41 am:
Glad to see McCulloch convicted of petition shenanigans. Now perhaps the Lake County prosecutors will have the backbone to look into and file charges in the petitions submitted for Terry link

Petition misdeeds have been increasing in frequency lately.

- PhilCollins - Thursday, Mar 27, 08 @ 1:03 pm:
McCulloch is innocent. I know him well because I worked with him on John Cox’s 2002 U.S. Senate campaign. He would never violate an election law. I live in St. Sen. Link’s district, and I hope that his name will be removed from the ballot. Many names, on his petitions, were obviously copied from a phone book.

- The Piper - Thursday, Mar 27, 08 @ 1:25 pm:
A $100 million childrens museum??? That’s the last thing we need! How about lower the freakin taxes. Or put me on city payroll for $100,000+ a year.

- steve schnorf - Thursday, Mar 27, 08 @ 1:47 pm:
Who says there’s no good news for the Republican party?

- wordslinger - Thursday, Mar 27, 08 @ 2:22 pm:
When I went to Northern Illinois in the 80s, the head of the College Democrats was named Rod McCulloch. Is this the same guy?

- Plutocrat03 - Thursday, Mar 27, 08 @ 3:36 pm:
PhilC

I have had recent experiences with him and my radar was flashing warnings to stay away. Looking at the article, it seems that 12 jurors believed the evidence presented, not the defense.

Remember the felony was for lying about something under oath, while petition thing was a misdemeanor.

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