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March
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Normally Mayor Daley always gets his way.
But, perhaps not this time.
Last Tuesday, just eight days from the traditional April 1st start of the Chicago street cleaning season, the administration decided to make a drastic change to how city streets get cleaned.
Categories: Department of Streets & Sanitation Parking Ticket Geek Street Sweeping
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Mayor Daley on Tuesday swept aside aldermanic complaints about his cost-cutting plan to switch street sweeping from a ward-by-ward to a grid system and reduce the number of sweepers by 34 percent.
“If this side of the street is one ward and the other side [isContinue...
Categories: Chicago Sun-Times Department of Streets & Sanitation Street Sweeping
Friday, March 19, 2010
The paint is dry, the photographs are framed and the Legos have been arranged in an uncanny likeness of Alderman Ariel E. Reboyras. It is time to unveil the much-anticipated Chicago Aldermen Project: 50 Aldermen/50 Artists.
The show, which opens its two-week run at 7 p.m.Continue...
Categories: Arts Bucktown New York Times Wicker Park
Sunday, March 7, 2010
If you’re not doing anything the evening of March 19, you might consider a visit to the Johalla Projects Gallery in Wicker Park for the opening of the “Aldermen Project: 50 Aldermen/50 Artists” show.
There’s a good chance that attendees will encounter one of the following:Continue...
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February
Sunday, February 7, 2010
The parking meter lease saga continues, as CBS 2 reports that under the city’s lease agreement with Chicago Parking Meter LLC, it could be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to the company for revenues lost when the city closes metered spaces forContinue...
Categories: Chicagoist Parking Meters Privatization
January
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Led by WPB, neighborhoods increasing opportunities, spaces for artists; encouraging environmental pursuits; working to maintain individuality.
When Red Hen Bread opened in the mid-1990s, the only other business along that stretch of Milwaukee Avenue was a carwash, remembers owner Robert Picchietti.
The area — home to oneContinue...
Categories: Bucktown Chicago Tribune Wicker Park
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Drivers and political opponents reacted angrily to Mayor Daley’s proposal for a five-minute grace period on expired parking meters.
Mayor Daley is hoping the proposed grace period after parking meters expire will get Chicago drivers – angry about the privatization of the city’s meters and theContinue...
Categories: Parking Meters
Wednesday morning, just outside City Council chambers inside City Hall, an embattled Mayor Daley offered Chicago motorists a bit of a break.
If approved by the City Council, the Mayor wants to allow any motorist one free pass on an expired meter ticket per year.
But, thereContinue...
Categories: Parking Meters Parking Ticket Geek Privatization
December
Thursday, December 31, 2009
The sheer sticker shock won’t be quite as bad as last year — and this time you can leave the bulky bag of quarters at home — but Chicago parking meter rates go up again Monday.
Drivers will pay anywhere from a quarter more an hourContinue...
Categories: Chicago Tribune Parking Meters Privatization
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
The sweeping changes in the city’s parking meter system have proved a mixed bag for Melody Fillier.
The new option of paying by credit card is a plus — no more bags of quarters to cart around. Having to walk back to the car and putContinue...
Categories: Chicago Tribune Parking Meters Privatization