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* Navistar may restart plans for Lisle HQ

Navistar International Corp. leaders will meet Monday with state and local officials to discuss options that could persuade the engine manufacturer to renew plans to move its headquarters to Lisle, officials said Thursday.

The talks will come two weeks after Warrenville-based Navistar decided to scrap plans to move to the former Alcatel-Lucent site in Lisle, saying local opposition to the project was “jeopardizing our image.”

In recent days, state officials have stepped up their efforts to prevent Navistar from moving out of Illinois and taking thousands of jobs and millions of dollars with it. Navistar officials previously said they were also exploring headquarters locations in Alabama, Texas and South Carolina.

* The hidden housing crisis

Hargrove is caught in the middle. Below her is a foreclosed property and above her is a unit whose owner has stopped paying assessments. Like a lot of condo owners in Rogers Park, she has paid her mortgage and assessments on time, but has been forced to foot the heat, water and other maintenance bills for the building….Rogers Park had nearly twice the city’s average concentration of foreclosures with 410 in 2009, according to the National People’s Action report, and is on track to surpass that number in 2010. According to RealtyTrac, there were 209 foreclosures in Rogers Park through the first four months of this year.

* Peoria County Board to allow video gaming

* Free dental clinic in B-N expected to be Illinois’ largest ever

* State sends overdue payment to RI County

* Cook County prescribes 5-year health system overhaul

* ‘He got the bag over my head:’ Witness in Burge trial

* Ex-gang member: ‘I’ll never forget’ detective who suffocated him into false confession
* Daley unveils plan for online summer school

Amid opposition from the Chicago Teachers Union, Mayor Daley today unveiled a dramatic expansion in so-called “virtual summer school,” bankrolled by $940,000 in federal stimulus funds.

It will allow the Chicago Public Schools to serve an unlimited number of students — some working from home, libraries or parent’s office — at a fraction of the cost.

* Summer school expands online for Chicago Public Schools

* New vote pushed for Route 53

* [DuPage] Water commission wonders if its rates are set high enough

* Water commission begins leader search

Some board members questioned if they should be the ones picking the new general manager since legislation awaiting Gov. Pat Quinn’s signature would force their resignation by the end of the year.

* Buffalo Grove official questions consulting fees

* Naperville Park District president re-elected

* Lolie named judge on Fourth Judicial Circuit

* Senate Judiciary Committee approves Lewis for U.S. attorney

* [Springfield] publishes private info on FOIA website

The city of Springfield put documents online that contained such sensitive information as people’s Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, home and work telephone numbers — even a bank account number and the name of someone who called the state anonymously to report suspected child abuse.

The documents were posted on the city’s website in response to Freedom of Information Act requests as part of an initiative to make public information available to anyone with a computer. But personal information, such as home phone numbers, Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers, are exempt from disclosure under state law.

* Click It or Ticket campaign yields 362 seat belt violations in area for May

* Chicago to celebrate Blackhawks’ win Friday

* Taxpayers won’t foot bill for Blackhawks parade, Daley says

“We have sponsors. They made a commitment to do that. And that will be done,” he said.

* CTA adjusts for Blackhawks’ downtown party

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Jun 11, 10 @ 9:21 am

Comments

A sunny summer day, a cool lake breeze, a Blackhawks victory rally and parade, Cubs-Sox at Wrigley and Bluesfest in beautiful Grant Park.

Life sure is better in Indiana.

Comment by wordslinger Friday, Jun 11, 10 @ 10:18 am
And kudos to Mayor Daley for online summer school.
Online access to high-quality educational resources is the future.

Of course the CTU (and other teachers’ unions) don’t like it. Their priority is teachers, not education, including the many many functionally illiterate and otherwise incompetent teachers
they represent. Those of us without the money to move to Lake Forest (or to pay Lab School tuition)
have to put up with far too many of these teachers in our school systems everyday. Online access to competent teachers represents the kind of democratization of high-quality educational resources that teachers unions will fight in perpetuity.

Comment by cassandra Friday, Jun 11, 10 @ 10:39 am
I’m proud to say that my dentist, Dr. Robert Deaver, will be making the trip from Chicago to B-N to provide free dental care.

Way to go Dr. Bob!

Comment by Yellow Dog Democrat Friday, Jun 11, 10 @ 11:37 am
There’s a rumor out there that AJ and Burhle were traded to the Cards. Now that would be a crosstown cruncher

Comment by Phineas J. Whoopee Friday, Jun 11, 10 @ 4:27 pm
Is that true Phineas? Where did you hear that rumor?

Comment by Dr. Chris Mohler DDS dentist in Beaufort South Carolina Friday, Jun 11, 10 @ 5:43 pm