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* Tribune gets more time to file reorganization plan

But a group of credit agreement lenders who hold more than $4 billion in Tribune debt objected to another extension and asked for permission to submit their own reorganization plan focused on Tribune subsidiaries.

* Are high school juniors skipping out of state testing?

* CPS chief: New admissions policy ‘not racist at all’

Huberman said the new policy was dictated by a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling and by a federal judge’s more recent decision to void a 1980 desegregation consent decree that allowed CPS to use race to decide admissions to coveted schools.[…]

“This has absolutely nothing to do with any one racial group — white or otherwise — paying private school tuition. This is about the best system that we could come up with that is lawful, that will continue to ensure we have an inclusive system,” Huberman said, after joining Mayor Daley at an unrelated news conference.

* Parking ban, day 1: 234 towed

* First Night of Parking Ban Nabs Hundreds

* Daley assigns blame for price gouging at McCormick Place

* Daley says private trade show managers need to do their part to cut costs at McCormick Place

* Indicted alderman stalls Police Board reforms

* Attempt to penalize absent Chicago police disciplinary board members stalls

* Ald. Carothers Rejects Police Board Reforms

* DePaul plans go to City Council vote

* Wednesday Illinois political docket: Daley budget vote, Durbin to talk Gitmo

* State board probes ex-Lake County official

* New Evanston buildings must go green

* Lake Michigan pollution: Highland Park project aims to curb sewage flow

* Officials lay out plans to bolster damaged levee near Alton

* West State renovation a ‘quality-of-life’ plan

* H1N1 vaccine: Skokie offering shots to high-risk patients throughout Illinois

* Holiday lights, festivities still shining

* East Peoria increases property tax levy

Owner of a $150,000 home would pay an additional $15

* Peoria cuts ties with PAWS, balances books

posted by Mike Murray
Wednesday, Dec 2, 09 @ 8:34 am

Comments

Only in Chicago do we have an indicted Alderman (Carothers) in charge of the City Council’s Police & Fire Committee. Is anyone shocked as to what happenned to Ald. Fioretti’s attempt at reform here?

Comment by fedup dem Wednesday, Dec 2, 09 @ 8:55 am
–Ochoa has argued that Chicago operates at a disadvantage because its convention rivals receive government subsidies, while McCormick Place does not. Despite record budget deficits at the city and state, Ochoa raised the possibility of seeking an operating subsidy from state or local government.–

Ochoa’s statement is absurd on any number of levels. Mac Place, and other convention authorities around the state, get a cut of hotel, restaurant and other “tourist” taxes.

Mac Place is into the state sales tax this year for $19 million and probably $34 million next year. The state and city also spend millions on marketing McCormick Place directly.

Bring Jim Reilly back. He did a whale of a job when he was there. The political hacks who have followed him are part of the problem.

Comment by wordslinger Wednesday, Dec 2, 09 @ 9:34 am
Allegations that the new CPS policies are racist are likely welcome distractions for Huberman and Daley, who get to posture about how not true that is…probably, correctly.

Meanwhile, despite billions and billions of dollars invested, Chicago public schools continue to provide an execrably awful education for all but the lucky few. Where does all the money go? Instead of listening to Huberman and Daley talk about how unbiased they are, parents should be staging sit-down rallies in front of all those awful Chicago public schools. Tell Daley and Huberman they’ll stay until the schools are fixed, however long it takes.

Alas, they won’t. Easier to let the kids get a bad education than actually challenge Daley, Huberman and Co. Too much trouble.

Comment by cassandra Wednesday, Dec 2, 09 @ 9:45 am
If Skokie got a little extra H1N1 vaccine it should quietly share it with nearby communities.

If Skokie got so much it can go to all the major media outlets and offer vaccinations to people from across Illinois it should have returned the excess to be distributed based on the best judgment of the CDC and other agencies that have the big picture.

Rather than lauding Skokie for sharing, the media should be asking why Skokie ordered so much more than it needed and why the distribution system allowed one municipality to acquire so much excess.

Comment by Carl Nyberg Wednesday, Dec 2, 09 @ 9:59 am
Last week I had a harsh assessment of the McPier issue and its many problems. My views haven’t changed a week later, and never will.

Comment by Will County Woman Wednesday, Dec 2, 09 @ 10:12 am
Everyone blames Daley and Huberman, but what about the teachers union? They are the ones that refuse to work more hours or days and protect the thousands of bad teachers. And also, let’s place some blame on parents… but of course that’s way too complicated for the media to ever start to understand, so let’s just blame the institution itself! The fun!

Comment by The 'Dale to HPark Wednesday, Dec 2, 09 @ 11:47 am