December 2009
Voter registration deadline looms
By Admin on December 31, 2009
Tuesday marks an important deadline for voters.
It’s the last day for residents to register to be eligible to vote in the Feb. 2 primary election.
The Chicago Board of Elections notes that it’s the earliest ever deadline for voter registration for a primary — the result of the state law that moved up primary elections from March to February beginning in 2008 as Democrats sought to help favorite son presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Also, the end of the year marks a deadline for campaigns to report contributions.
Read more on Clout Street at chicagotribune.com.
Stocks dip lower as unemployment claims fall
By Admin on December 31, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks pointed to a mixed open Thursday ahead of a report on unemployment and as investors looked to wrap up a strong year for the market.
Hester re-enters picture as return man | Aromashodu?
By Admin on December 31, 2009
Devin Hester had full participation in practice this afternoon , putting him on track to play in Sunday’s season finale.
Hester re-enters picture as return man
By Admin on December 31, 2009
Devin Hester had full participation in practice this afternoon , putting him on track to play in Sunday’s season finale.
Huet back in goal tonight for Blackhawks vs. Devils
By Admin on December 31, 2009
Judge dismisses all charges against Blackwater guards involved in deadly Baghdad shooting
By Admin on December 31, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007.
Jackson family museum may include golf course, amusement park
By Admin on December 31, 2009
Plans to honor late pop icon Michael Jackson and his family’s Gary , Ind. roots have expanded to possibly include a golf course and an amusement park with characteristics of Jackson’s Neverland Ranch and the former Riverview Park amusement park on the Northwest Side.
The latest addition to plans that already include a Jackson family
museum, a performing arts center and a 300-room hotel are slated to be
built on about 100 acres of city-owned vacant land along Interstate 94,
said Odie Anderson, a south suburban Tinley Park resident who is
president of the project.
The museum, performing arts center and
hotel likely will be built on 10 acres of city-owned land in downtown
Gary, Anderson said.
“Everything is in the planning stages at
this point, but we’re moving on a fast track and we’re looking forward
to actually breaking ground sometime in 2010,” Anderson said.
The
project likely will be built in phases, with the museum, arts center
and hotel built first, followed by the golf course and theme park. Then
developers might build a monorail system to connect the two areas,
Anderson said. If the monorail system was built, he estimates the
entire project would cost $1 billion over a 10-year construction period.
Private
donors would foot a bulk of the bill, but Anderson said he’s also
looking to Gary for tax incentives. He would not say how much money has
been raised since Gary Mayor Rudy Clay in October announced two new
foundations created to raise money for the project.
Project
officials still are considering whether to build a replica of the
Jackson family home or have a bus tour of the Jackson family’s former
haunts.
The theme park will have roller coasters, trains and
other rides familiar to anyone who sought thrills at Riverview or was a
guest at Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in California, Anderson said.
“We’re
trying to extract the best and come up with a combination that made
Riverview so attractive for kids of all ages as well as [have] special
themes of Neverland that would be reminiscent of the Jacksons,”
Anderson said.
Some Gary City Council members say they have yet to be briefed on the latest plans.
Colorado to drop minimum wage
By Admin on December 31, 2009
DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s minimum wage will drop slightly in the new year — the first decrease in any state’s minimum wage since the federal minimum was adopted in 1938.
Colorodo 1st state since 1938 to drop minimum wage
By Admin on December 31, 2009
DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s minimum wage will drop slightly in the new year — the first decrease in any state’s minimum wage since the federal minimum was adopted in 1938.
Bulls beat Pistons on the road 98-87
By Admin on December 31, 2009
Business »
Obama designer Pinto to liquidate
March 12, 2010
All of the praise for Michelle Obama’s grape and tomato-colored sheaths couldn’t bear enough fruit to spare their Chicago-based designer — Maria Pinto — from the recession’s blight.
Sports »
Hawks’ Ladd: ‘Being lazy in D-zone … turned into goals’
March 12, 2010
Team knows it’s not just responsibility of goalies to limit opponents
It was team picture day for the Blackhawks on Thursday followed by an optional practice during which several players took to the ice wearing teammates’ sweaters. Andrew Ladd appeared as Jonathan Toews, Dustin Byfuglien impersonated Patrick Sharp, Adam Burish was Marian Hossa and so on.
National »
Less is more: Rash of reports says too many Americans get too many medical tests despite risks
March 12, 2010
CHICAGO (AP) — Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans — maybe even President Barack Obama — are being overtreated.
Politics »
Rod Blagojevich case
January 21, 2009
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