
	Where results make sense

Topic: Chicago City Council

Related Topics

Chicago City Hall

Madeline Haithcock

Chicago

City council

Mary Ann Smith

Chicago, Illinois

Dorothy Tillman

Alderman

William Lipinski

Chicago aldermen

Chicagoland

Bernard Stone

Toni Preckwinkle

	Chicago, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chicago, colloquially known as the "Second City" and the "Windy City", is the third-largest city in population in the United States, following New York City and Los Angeles, and the largest inland city in the country.
		Chicago's politics lean famously to the left compared to the rest of the midwest, and it is often said that Chicago is the "East Coast" of the Midwest.
		Of the city population, 26.2% are under the age of 18, 11.2% are from 18 to 24, 33.4% are from 25 to 44, 18.9% are from 45 to 64, and 10.3% are 65 years of age or older.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago (6504 words)

	Chicago City Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chicago City Hall, adjacent to the Richard J. Daley Center, houses the chambers of the Chicago City Council.
		The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Chicago in Illinois.
		The secretary is the City Clerk of Chicago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago_City_Council (166 words)

	Government, City of Chicago
		As a commercial walking city, Chicago initially reflected the Jacksonian-era tendency for decentralized government with numerous officials elected on a frequent basis.
		As the city grew through annexation, the wards increased to 35 and the number of aldermen to 70.
		In Harold Washington's first three years of office, city council opponents marshaled a majority of votes to stymie his policy objectives and usher in the paralyzing “Council Wars.” Only his veto power kept the council from completely ignoring his agenda until his supporters won a majority in special council elections in 1986.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/532.html (1012 words)

	Encyclopedia: Chicago City Council
		Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States and the largest inland city in the country.
		Mayors of Chicago, Illinois, Current or Previous The mayoral term in Chicago was two years from 1837 through 1907, at which time it was lengthened to four years.
		Chicago City Hall, adjacent to the Richard J. Daley Center, is the official seat of government of the City of Chicago.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chicago-City-Council (372 words)

	Chicago City Council -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of the (Click link for more info and facts about City of Chicago) City of Chicago in (A Midwest state in north-central United States) Illinois.
		The Chicago City Council is gaveled into session regularly to consider ordinances, orders, and resolutions whose subject matter includes traffic code changes, utilities, taxes, and many other issues.
		The Chicago City Council chambers are located in (Click link for more info and facts about Chicago City Hall) Chicago City Hall, adjacent to the (Click link for more info and facts about Richard J. Daley Center) Richard J. Daley Center.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chicago_city_council.htm (163 words)

	Jet: Chicago City Council OKs Tougher Ordinance To Penalize Front Minority Companies - confirms commitment to minority ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fulfilling Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's promise of cracking down on front companies posing as minority- and women-owned businesses, the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance to levy stiff financial penalties against contractors that fail to meet their goals for subcontracting to minority- and women-owned (MBE/ WBE) businesses.
		This far exceeds the city's stated goal of awarding 25% of contract dollars to MBE firms and 5% to WBE firms.
		Year-to-date, Chicago has awarded 16% of contracts to Black firms, 15% to Hispanic firms, 5% to Asian firms and 6% to women firms.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_9_98/ai_64057368 (352 words)

	She Said it - Chicago City Council Honors Hefner but feminists ruined the show - by Claudine O’ Leary
		Chicago politics are notorious for back room deals, and one of the political favors a City Council member can offer to a constituent is an honorary street sign.
		And though the committee passed the measure, it still had to pass the full City Council, which continued to receive a deluge of messages opposing it, before the naming was official.
		The letters to editors, the conversations with city residents and tourists on the street, and the number of calls to council members helped raise consciousness and demonstrated the widespread opposition to the honorary street sign for Hefner.
	www.saidit.org /archives/may00/article2.html (1219 words)

	Across The Nation \| Chicago City Council Budget Committee Approves Additional $500,000 in AIDS Funding - ...
		The Chicago City Council Budget Committee on Monday voted to add to the fiscal year 2004 budget an additional $500,000 in AIDS funding to the amount requested by Mayor Richard Daley (D), the
		However, city council members late last month requested a $1 million increase in HIV/AIDS funding, saying that they were concerned that the proposed funding level does not adequately reflect an increase in the city's number of HIV cases among African Americans, Hispanics and men who have sex with men.
		William Abolt, Daley's budget director, told City Council members that the city would continue to work closely with the council to identify new sources of funding for HIV/AIDS prevention, according to an AIDS Foundation of Chicago release.
	www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=20924 (411 words)

	Chicago City Council Passes Resolution Condemning the USA Patriot Act
		After an emotional debate, Chicago's city council approved a resolution Wednesday condemning the USA Patriot Act for casting a pall on the civil rights of minorities.
		Chicago became the largest city in the United States to criticize the Patriot Act, joining cities such as Minneapolis, Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
		At times, the council's debate was sharply drawn across political ideology.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/1002-05.htm (613 words)

	Politics and Policy \| Chicago City Council Members Call for Additional $1 Million in AIDS Funding - Kaisernetwork.org
		Twenty-six Chicago City Council members yesterday called on Mayor Richard Daley (D) to allocate an additional $1 million for AIDS prevention services in the proposed 2004 budget, according to an AIDS Foundation of Chicago release (AFC release, 5/5).
		"Although the AIDS epidemic has been steadily increasing in Chicago, city support for AIDS services has not kept pace with the need," the members wrote in a letter to Daley, adding that while AIDS cases in the city have increased by 21%, corporate funds devoted to prevention efforts have declined by 8%.
		The Council members note that they are "keenly aware" of the financial challenges facing the city, but they state that the crisis cannot wait until economic conditions improve, adding that each $1 million invested in prevention can save $2.7 million in averted health care costs.
	www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=17539 (219 words)

	Agendas & Minutes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Chicago city Council moved to provide coverage for burial expenses for those police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty.
		The Chicago City Council approved an intergovernmental agreement between the city and the Metropolitan Pier Exposition Authority for the purpose of constructing a new $35 million bus lane.
		Members of the Chicago City Council joined Alderman Edward M. Burke in extending their gratitude to their former colleague Robert Shaw as he attended his last meeting in the City Council.
	www.chgofinancecomm.chi.il.us /news/1002.html (1094 words)

	Chicago City Council Approves Gender Identity Amendment \| Illinois \| Legislative News \| Transgender Crossroads
		[CHICAGO, IL] - Today the Chicago City Council passed an amendment to the city's anti-bias laws that would protect the city's transgender and gender variant population by making it illegal to discriminate against a person on the basis of gender identity.
		She said, "I'm so proud that Chicago has joined the growing list of jurisdictions that recognize our community is entitled to the same rights and protections as everyone else.
		Mary Morten, Mayor Daley's liaison to the gay and lesbian community from 1997 to 2000, laid much of the groundwork in City Hall for the ordinance, and continued to advocate for its passage after she left that position.
	www.tgcrossroads.org /news?AID=451&IID=&type=News (519 words)

	USATODAY.com - Travel - News - Chicago City Council authorizes land purchase for O'Hare expansion plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago City Council passed measures Wednesday authorizing land purchases for the planned expansion of O'Hare International Airport, undeterred by a DuPage County judge's injunction barring such land buys in two suburbs near the airfield.
		In conjunction with the council vote, Mayor Richard M. Daley said the city would abide by Webster's July 9 ruling but needs to be prepared to move quickly if a higher court throws out that order.
		Chicago had mailed letters to 648 property owners near O'Hare, urging them to sell their homes and businesses to the city for the airport's proposed expansion.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/news/2002/2002-08-01-ohare-expansion.htm (405 words)

	BBC News \| Americas \| Springer grilled over fist fights
		TV talk show host Jerry Springer appeared before a Chicago City Council police panel on Friday to explain the violence that often breaks out on his controversial programme.
		City Alderman Edward Burke of the Police and Fire Committee said that if the fist fights, chair-throwing and hair-pulling on the show are genuine, Chicago police should enforce the law, and haul Mr Springer's guests off to jail.
		He refused to give details about his salary and the lease on the Chicago studio where the show is recorded saying such questions invaded his privacy.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/361393.stm (475 words)

	chicago in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		Chicago Landmark is a designation of the Mayor of Chicago and the Chicago Board of Aldermen for historic buildings and other sites in Chicago, Illinois.
		Chicago Lawn, one of the 77 Community areas of Chicago official community areas, is located on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois.
		Category Chicago neighborhoods South Chicago, located on the south side of the city, is one of the 77 Community areas of Chicago official community areas of Chicago, Illinois.
	www.tutorgig.com /es/chicago (958 words)

	Gapers Block, Chicago, IL - Author: Jim Allenspach
		After the city made it illegal to use a cell phone without a hands-free device while driving, over 800 tickets were issued to Chicago drivers for breaking this law in the first 6 weeks.
		Chicago, S.A.L. Jim Nowlan, director of the civic leadership fellows program at UIUC, thinks the name of the state of Illinois should be changed to the State of Abraham Lincoln.
		Chicago blogger Jennifer Roche alerts us to an article she wrote about Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, a group started in 2003 to prevent migratory birds that fly at night from striking buildings in the Loop by having the building owners turn off the lights after 11 PM.
	www.gapersblock.com /news/author/jma (9574 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Release : Motorcyclists Group Cautions Chicago City Council on Proposed Helmet Ordinance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ABATE of Illinois is cautioning the Chicago City Council to think twice about enacting a proposed city ordinance that would require motorcyclists to wear helmets while riding within city limits.
		With preemption in place, any such ordinance passed by the Chicago City Council would essentially be null and void.
		"If the Chicago City Council ignores the preemption statute and passes a local helmet use ordinance, ABATE of Illinois will employ the legal and legislative means necessary to ensure that state law is enforced, and that the rights of responsible motorcyclists are preserved."
	releases.usnewswire.com /printing.asp?id=37293 (289 words)

	Universal Guardian Holdings, Inc. :: Chicago City Council Approves Resolution on Universal Guardian's Cobra ...
		The Resolution, adopted by the Mayor and the members of the City Council of the City of Chicago on January 11, 2005, recognized the innovative technology presented by the Cobra StunLight(TM).
		In the words of the Resolution, "WHEREAS, the City of Chicago should by every means necessary, equip our first line of defense with the protection they deserve and [the] technology found in the Cobra StunLight(TM) allows the men and women of the Chicago Police Department the advantage of a safe standoff distance...
		"I was extremely pleased by the enthusiastic reception we received from the City of Chicago," stated William C. Lowe, a member of Universal's Board of Directors and former Chairman and CEO of Gulfstream Aerospace, who attended the meeting.
	sev.prnewswire.com /aerospace-defense/20050113/LATH11514012005-1.html (702 words)

	In unanimous vote, Chicago City Council requires companies to disclose slavery ties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CHICAGO (AP) -- The City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to require companies that do business with the city to disclose past ties to slavery, a measure lawmakers say could help descendants of slaves win reparations.
		The people of Chicago deserve to know if any of their city fathers or mothers are morons before they decide whether to vote for them.
		America's cities have been run for over 50 years by liberal Democrats, yet those who complain the most, continue to vote for liberal Democrats for mayor and city council.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/761700/posts (2114 words)

	City Council to examine wireless access today
		Chicago would be empowered to build an $18 million wireless Internet access system across the city under an ordinance expected to be rushed through today's City Council meeting to beat Springfield to the punch.
		Chicago could either install its own Wi-Fi cellular devices on streetlights, traffic signals and public buildings across the city or entertain bids from private sector companies eager to do so in exchange for a hefty fee, Burke said.
		Either way, the city needs to move quickly before the General Assembly approves a bill pending in Springfield that would preclude Chicago from establishing its own open-air system, Burke said.
	www.suntimes.com /output/news/cst-nws-wireless09.html (285 words)

	Meet the Chicago City Council
		Meet the Chicago City Council, which was sworn in Monday.
		A former city Department of Human Services official, won special election seven months after being appointed to succeed her mentor, Terry Peterson, who became head of the Chicago Housing Authority.
		Once Council's staunchest independent (the 1 in those 49-1 votes), she endorsed Daley for first time in 2003.
	www.suntimes.com /output/elect/cst-nws-aldposter06.html (1448 words)

	USATODAY.com - Chicago City Council to vote on Wrigley landmark status (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CHICAGO (AP) — Wrigley Field is closer to landmark status after a Chicago City Council committee unanimously approved a plan that would declare the ballpark a landmark but still allow some changes.
		The council is expected to take up the issue on Feb. 11.
		The Cubs and the city have been negotiating for nearly three years on the landmark designation.
	usatoday.com /sports/baseball/nl/cubs/2004-01-28-wrigley-landmark_x.htm (290 words)

	chicago city flag
		… The Municipal Flag of Chicago consists of 3 White stripes separated by two … The 3 White stripes: Top White Stripe represents the North side of the city.
		The city flag of Chicago was adopted by the City Council in 1917.
		… Chicago is the standard by which all US city flags should be judged.
	www.dark-media.org /chicago-city-flag.html (387 words)

	Cassel: Civil Liberties Watch - October 02, 2003 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On October 1, the Chicago City Counsel voted to pass a resolution condemning the USA PATRIOT Act, becoming the largest city in the United States to show its contempt for the Ashcroft-Congress brand of patriotism.
		As reported by attorney Noah Leavitt, with Chicago's Jewish Counsel on Urban Affairs, Aldermen Helen Shiller (Ward 46), Joe Moore (Ward 49), Freddrenna Lyle (Ward 6) and Ricardo Munoz (Ward 22) introduced a resolution to the City Council supporting Chicago's immigrant population and condemning the excesses of the USA PATRIOT Act.
		In Chicago, large numbers of immigrant workers have been arrested on numerous occasions, including in raids at O'Hare and Midway airports as well as the Sears Tower.
	blogs.citypages.com /ecassel/2003/10/02 (757 words)

	City Clerk of Chicago - City Council Information
		The Chicago City Council consists of 50 aldermen, one representing each city ward.
		The council meets regularly to discuss legislation, orders and ordinances whose subject matter includes traffic code changes, the city's relationship with utility providers, taxes, and much more.
		The Council Calendar lets you know when the next council meeting and selected committee meetings will take place.
	www.chicityclerk.com /citycouncil/about.html (115 words)

	Northwest Herald - Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		THE AS CHICAGO – The city council agreed Tuesday to pay $2 million to settle a wrongful arrest lawsuit filed by the family of one of two young boys wrongly accused in the 1998 murder of 11-year-old Ryan Harris.
		If the lawsuit had gone to a jury, the city could have paid as much as $50 million, said Eileen Rosen, an assistant corporation council for the city.
		The city, which reached the deal in October, did not admit any wrongdoing in the settlement and has denied that detectives in the case coerced the boys into making statements about Harris' murder.
	www.nwherald.com /MainSection/local/286162627545069.php (368 words)

	ZNet \|Iraq \| Chicago City Council Votes 29-to-9 for Iraq Pullout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Passing by a Council vote of 29 to 9, with 12 abstaining or not voting, the resolution urges 'the United States government to immediately commence an orderly and rapid withdrawal' from Iraq.
		'The City Council voted to oppose Bush's 'war of choice' at its onset,' said Carl Davidson, co-chair of Chicagoans Against War and Injustice, 'we have had a good debate, and now they are setting an example for major cities throughout the nation on how to follow suit and help end it.
		A City Hall peace rally and march, was also held on Tuesday, Sept 13, on the eve of the vote, featuring the dramatic 'die-in' demonstration.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=8754 (670 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)