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Posts tagged "Richard M. Daley"

Illinois tollway drivers chumped by O'Hare Airport expansion.

Back when former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley promised to wave his magic wand and turn the 1950s-style O’Hare Airport into a 21st Century jewel,  Tri-State and other Illinois tollway drivers had no reason to pay much attention. Daley and his corporate, political, organized labor and do-gooder minions had assured everyone that expanding O’Hare wouldn’t... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
July 15, 2011 at 5:15 pm
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A new hidden Tax for O'Hare Airport travelers

Desperate for new money for the O’Hare Airport expansion boondoggle, the Daley administration is placing its hopes on a 63 percent increase on a tax imposed on airline passengers. Under legislation already passed by the House, airport operators, such as Chicago, would be authorized to increase the airline passenger facility charge (PFC) by $2.50, to... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 6, 2009 at 1:50 pm
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Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid falls to anti-Americanism

So, Chicagoans and Americans, what do you think of world opinion now? After pandering to world opinion, America got the shiv from the bozos voting at the International Olympic Committee. President Barack Obama, who was thought to bring in a new day of more congenial international relations after former President George W. Bush and who... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 2, 2009 at 11:06 am
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The Olympics skinny

Here’s some good background on the upcoming Olympic selection events in Copenhagen. How do you think that  Copenhagen’s Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard (right) will get along with our Lord Mayor Richie Daley? In this Associated Press photo, she is seen attending the eco-premiere of the environmental documentary “The Age Of Stupid” during climate week on... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 24, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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Daley backs business set-asides for gay-owned firms

Here’s the Tribune’s story: Mayor Richard Daley said today he would support an effort to give preferential treatment in city contracting to businesses owned by gays and lesbians. The city already sets aside a portion of contracts for businesses owned by blacks, Hispanics, Asians and women. Now Ald. Thomas Tunney (44th), the City Council’s openly... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
July 29, 2009 at 7:39 pm
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Common sense on high-speed rail

John McCarron, an urban affairs writer, consultant and educator, nails it in this Tribune op-ed column. McCarron asks why we are spending billions of dollars (yet to be borrowed, I assume) on studying and building high-speed rail service when so much more needs to be done for local mass transit. Compare the needs of CTA... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
July 27, 2009 at 5:32 pm
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Chris Kennedy: Who?

After Lisa Madigan announced that she liked her job as attorney general just fine, and wouldn’t run for senator or governor, the stuffed-up pipeline of potential candidates unclogged Chris Kennedy like a sewer freed of a giant glop. Maybe it’s a measure of a character failure that Madigan decided to wait so long, throwing a... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
July 23, 2009 at 12:05 pm
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More greed exposed in Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics

Pardon me if I don’t share the panic over this fight between the U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee over television rights to the 2016 Games. If anything, it reveals just how crass the Olympics have become. Billions of dollars are ultimately at stake over who controls the television rights, belying all that... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
July 11, 2009 at 4:39 pm
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Will former Daley top aide squeal about O'Hare contracts?

It’s just my guess, but John Harris’ guilty plea in federal court Wednesday is causing more ripples in Chicago’s City Hall, especially on the fifth floor–that’s the mayor’s office–than it will in the halls of the state Capital. Harris, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s chief of staff, pled guilty to a single count of wire fraud... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
July 8, 2009 at 10:29 pm
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Eleven aldermen willing to stand up to Daley?

Eleven aldermen have gone public with their challenge to Mayor Richard M. Daley’s open-ended commitment to compensate the Olympics if the Games here in 2016 go bust. Good for them. Maybe this means that the Silly Council is not prepared to roll over to Daley’s cockamamie demand. Or maybe it means that the 11 know... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
July 2, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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