Five Chicago schools starting year-round classes Sun Times: Starting Monday, for the first time, five Chicago neighborhood high schools will begin "year-round" classes -- a move some hail and others predict could explode in "disaster."...
TIF surplus Daley Chicago Tribune: If Daley declares a surplus to free up those TIF dollars, he'll have to share them with the local governments that have been shortchanged by his ever-expanding TIF empire. He should do it anyway...
What communities are planning for Promise Neighborhoods Catalyst: Profiles of what five communities are proposing (Englewood: Roseland, Chicago Lawn, I forget the rest)...
Taser Use By Chicago Police Officers Increases Sharply Sun Times: hicago Police officers have nearly quadrupled their use of Tasers since the department equipped every beat car with the electric-shock weapons earlier this year, according to new figures released by the Independent Police Review Authority...
Bill Ayers To Retire WBEZ: Longtime University of Illinois at Chicago professor Bill Ayers is retiring
