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How Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel reached the end of the honeymoon

July 23, 2011
Christian Science Monitor

By Mark Guarino



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Hanhardt walks on new landscape, but it's the same Chicago Way

July 20, 2011
Chicago Tribune

By John Kass

The Chicago Outfit's top cop, former Chicago Police Chief of Detectives William Hanhardt, left federal prison Tuesday after a decade behind bars.

Once he was a rock star. If you want to understand Chicago you've got to understand that when Hanhardt would show up in a police district station, you'd think the Beatles had arrived. They'd crowd around him, because he was the guy who could make things happen.



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City worker quits in the face of David Koschman questions

July 20, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

By Fran Spielman

Former Mayor Richard M. Daley’s director of special events resigned her City Hall job while facing the prospect of being fired for refusing to cooperate in the city inspector general’s investigation into the Chicago Police Department’s handling of a homicide case involving Daley’s nephew Richard J. “R.J.” Vanecko, according to a report Tuesday.

Judge won’t throw out case against former Cook County Board member Peraica

July 21, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

By Lauren FitzPatrick

A Cook County judge refused on Wednesday to throw out the arrest of a former Cook County commissioner, allowing a case accusing him of stealing an opponent’s campaign signs in 2010 to proceed.

Former Republican Commissioner Tony Peraica is accused of driving around southwest suburban McCook on Oct. 30, 2010, three days before election day, and defacing and removing yard signs belonging to his Democratic rival.

City inspector general outlines array of cases

July 20, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

 By Fran Spielman

A former high-ranking city of Chicago employee who continues to cash in on city contracts even after testifying in federal court about his role in a scheme to rig hiring and promotions at City Hall.

A not-for-profit corporation that allegedly forged bank letters in a failed attempt to secure a $1 million city subsidy.



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Former top lawyer at City Hall follows Daley to Chicago law firm

July 14, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

By Fran Speilman

Mara S. Georges, who was the city of Chicago’s longest-serving chief lawyer, is following her old boss, former Mayor Richard M. Daley, to the Chicago law firm that got $822,760 in legal fees from City Hall for work on Daley-engineered deals that privatized Chicago’s parking meters, the city’s downtown parking garages and the Chicago Skyway.

Fired Water Dept. supervisor Patrick Doherty’s new government job

July 14, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

 By Steve Warmbir and Lisa Donovan

In 1994, Chicago Water Department supervisor Patrick Doherty was fired for lying on his time sheets.

When he said he was working, he was actually at home at times, or going to Handy Andy or White Hen or Walgreens, a city investigation found.

Doherty claimed he did some work at home, in part, because of a problem at his city office.

His work desk wasn’t big enough to do work on, he said.



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Rahm Emanuel kills controversial hiring office Richard M. Daley created

July 14, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

By Fran Spielman

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has quietly disbanded the $3.6 million-a-year Office of Compliance that former Mayor Richard M. Daley created in 2007 to get around an inspector general who had embarrassed him.

Last year, oversight over city hiring was transferred from the Office of Compliance to Inspector General Joe Ferguson to bolster the city’s case to get out from under the Shakman decree banning political hiring and firing.

World Business Chicago powered up

July 14, 2011
Chicago Tribune

By Melissa Harris

At least twice a week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel says, he calls Deputy Mayor Mark Angelson into his office to go over a list of companies that are thinking about creating jobs in Chicago.

Chicago's ward remap begins with everyone on alert

July 14, 2011
Chicago Tribune

 By Hal Dardick and Kristen Mack

As City Council heavyweights prepare to redraw ward boundaries in a once-a-decade exercise that will reshape Chicago's political landscape, a group of independent-minded aldermen is raising money to pay for its own high-tech map room.



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