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Posts tagged "Bensenville"

Starz' 'Boss' accurately portrays the Chicago Way

Some of my colleagues have observed that the excellent new Starz series “Boss” about a fictional Chicago mayor isn’t really real. And former Mayor Richard M. Daley said the show is not about him. In a pig’s eye. This show accurately captures that essence of what makes Chicago run, as Daley ran it. Jobs, contracts... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 24, 2011 at 7:36 am
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New life in the fight against O'Hare Airport expansion

Park Ridge: Not so quiet anymore after O’Hare Airport’s new runway opened. (Tribune photo) It’s coming a little late, but Park Ridge, which used to be a leader against O’Hare Airport expansion, but then dropped out, is looking to start a campaign against further expansion, according to a story in the Park Ridge Herald-Advocate, Park... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 4, 2010 at 4:25 pm
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Chicago to O'Hare airlines: Screw you (updated)

O’Hare Airport. Lot’s of room for expansion, right? UPDATE: Read the Daley administration’s lame excuses for shoving it to the airlines after they thought they had been making progress. One item that the city reneged on was the controversial western terminals, which United and American don’t want. Daley first said okay, then demanded suddenly that... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 9, 2010 at 10:20 pm
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United Airlines to city: Still "no" to more runways

As predicted years ago by O’Hare expansion opponents, the funding for Phase 2 of O’Hare Airport expansion remains, at best, in doubt. Crain’s reports that United Airlines, although it “likes runways,” still isn’t agreeing to funding the completion of the O’Hare Modernization Program, even as the city continues to tout it. Without the funding, all those... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
December 17, 2009 at 11:13 am
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Tour the town Daley destroyed

The east side of Bensenville is everything that people say a suburb should be: affordable housing, accessible jobs, diverse neighborhood, close to transportation. But it had to go to make way for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s O’Hare Airport expansion–a project that is underfunded, poorly designed and dangerous. Let’s look in and see what he’s... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
November 18, 2009 at 11:57 am
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The O'Hare Airport/Bensenville Swindle

Worth 30 pieces of silver? “O’Hare Expansion Fight Grounded for Good,” announced an NBC Channel 5 headline on the Chicago television station’s website. “City will pay Bensenville $16 million” Well, not quite yet “for good;” there’s still a major church-state fight working its way up to the Supreme Court over whether Chicago can ride roughshod... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
November 18, 2009 at 11:22 am
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