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* Recession hasn’t bottomed out on Main Street
* Debts drive record numbers in suburbs to file bankruptcy
* Filing bankruptcy could cost you a lot now and later
* Lessons of the recession: ‘Thou shall not use thy house as an ATM’
* The corruption case you barely heard of
The federal investigation dubbed “Operation Crooked Code” so far has led to the convictions of 21 people — including 15 city building and zoning inspectors. The 21st conviction came just last Thursday, when a federal jury convicted developer Dumitru Curescu of bribery.
Despite those successful cases, Crooked Code hasn’t been as high-profile as investigations of the city’s Hired Truck Program or city hiring or the Operation Silver Shovel probe, largely because it involves corruption on a smaller scale — rank-and-file city workers taking bribes to overlook building-code violations on neighborhood housing projects.
* Area towns top state, nation on census return rates
All of the towns in The Beacon-News circulation area were above the national and state averages for returning the census forms by mail. Sugar Grove and Geneva had the highest rate of return at 87 percent; Aurora had the lowest rate at 77 percent.
* Tribune Co. faces new challenges to restructuring plan
* Tribune Co. creditors file 3 competing reorganization plans
* Ameren reports 3rd quarter loss
* Illinois to benefit from federal health-care aid for some retired workers
* Illinois hospital report card adds new information
* Stroger plan surprises commissioners
A proposal by Cook County Board president Todd Stroger calling for a change in the way the medical examiner is appointed has commissioners puzzled. […]
Trouble is, according to the medical examiner’s Web site, this already is the case in Cook County. And it’s been that way since the mid 70’s.
* Stroger urged to fight jobless claim
* IRS slapped Daley nephew with $157,962 lien on summer home
* Conrad Black gets 2 convictions reversed
* Schools: Report card not good measuring stick
* 5 Dead, 21 Hurt In Halloween Weekend Shootings
* Navistar announces plans for facility
* Aurora police union angered by possible officer layoffs
* Batavians to vote on downtown rec center
* Democrats, GOP getting testy over Will County budget
* Two finalists named for Kane state’s attorney job
* Rockford Airport gets $8M grant
* Quincy’s early retirement program expected to save $5.18 million over next five years
* Lincoln schools look into sales tax
* High-speed rail construction to reach Chatham on Monday
* Former ESL employee denies cooperating with Feds to get lighter sentence
* Race for obscure post tests Chicago-style politics
The race for the obscure but powerful post of county assessor pits an old-school Democratic Party stalwart criticized for helping hire family members to government jobs and accused of arranging tax breaks for friends against a self-styled reformer who worked as Mayor Richard Daley’s chief of staff.
* Emanuel urges city reforms on no-bid contracts
* Sources: Health has Fioretti rethinking mayoral run
* Ald. Fioretti might not run for mayor
* Cynthia Plaster Caster runs for Chicago mayor
posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Nov 1, 10 @ 8:47 am
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Lesson of the recession: the financial sector is a predatory industry that will destroy the whole economy if left to their own devices. And they engage in fraud liberally to rip-off everyone: their borrowers, their lenders and the government.
Comment by Carl Nyberg Monday, Nov 1, 10 @ 9:23 am
>High-speed rail construction to reach Chatham on Monday
Will the 3hr Chicago - St Louis leg be open in time for baseball season next year?
Comment by Leroy Monday, Nov 1, 10 @ 9:34 am
I have recieved a mail piece from Tom Kilbride saying he is a republican. Is he?
Comment by Bluey2 Monday, Nov 1, 10 @ 11:05 am