According to the Illinois Board of Elections website, Aldermen Solis and Munoz--Aldermen of Chicago's two coal-firing neighborhoods in Pilsen and Little Village--have taken a total of approximately $75,000 in contributions from Midwest Generation over the last 9 years—since 2001 Midwest has contributed nearly 1.34 million to various Chicago political campaigns.
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A News report from Lake Effect News A Cook County judge handed down guilty verdicts in the bench trial of two political workers for Ald. Berny Stone on charges that they had allegedly tampered with absentee ballots stemming from the 2007 aldermanic race in Chicago’a 50th Ward. Anish Eapen, the former ward Streets and...
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A news report from Chicagoist.com Former alderman Isaac “Ike” Carothers, who pleaded guilty to bribery charges earlier this year, was sentenced today to 28 months in federal prison. Carothers has been ordered to report August 23 to begin serving his sentence. While which prison he serves time at ultimately rests with the Bureau of Prisons, the...
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The campaign of President Barack Obama was about hope and change, but a growing group of Americans don’t buy his message. They call themselves the Tea Party. The Chicago chapter has created a Contract for America, which spells out their ideals and goals. It includes protecting the constitution, rejecting cap and trade, demanding a...
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Does the name Elena Kagan ring a bell? For those following the legal wranglings of the Asian carp invasion, it should. Kagan, as President Barack Obama’s solicitor general, argued against closing the Chicago locks to prevent the invasive carp from entering Lake Michigan. … read more Great Lakes Echo (www.greatlakesecho.org) Follow us on twitter:...
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A proposed ordinance under consideration by Chicago City Council transportation and licensing committees threatens the city’s nascent pedicab industry, pedicab operators and owners say. The proposal would restrict pedicabs to designated routes, largely ban them from the city center, limit advertising on the vehicles and require the pedicab owners to provide workers’ compensation insurance...
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ChicagoTalks.org doesn’t have a regular editorial feature; however, we are going to introduce an “Occasional Opinion” feature as our cool spring begins to slide into summer and fall into election season. If you are interested in submitting an editorial about Chicago-centric issues, please contact us. We may publish editorials or highlight and link to...
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Lionel Garcia, a 6th District state representative candidate  and political director of the National Hispanic Political Assembly, talked with ChicagoTalks on Thursday about the issue of race and his involvement with Chicago Tea Party.
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A new bill requiring public water suppliers to notify the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency before their water supply hits unsafe contaminant levels unanimously passed a key environmental state panel earlier this month. The Illinois EPA proposed the bill to correct any contamination problems before they become a larger issue, said John Cross, the agency’s...
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By Hugh Devlin, From Lake Effect News Vice Mayor and 50th Ward Alderman Bernard L. Stone An ongoing, well documented investigative series by the Chicago Tribune into various City Council expense accounts turned up numerous instances of city taxpayers’ largesse to the friends and family members of Chicago aldermen. In November 2009, Lake Effect...
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