Healthy School Lunches – Eat What WE Provide
April 12th, 2011
By Dan Miller Taking the lead as Chicago often does, the principal of Little Village Academy on Chicago’s West Side, a public school, now bans lunches from home and insists that only nutritious and tasty food prepared by culinary professionals be eaten there. Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their […]
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Tags: Chicago, health, home, lunch, nutrition, parents, satire, school
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The Great Pyramids of China
January 21st, 2011
By Brianna Aubin The last time I was in Chicago, I had some time to kill before my appointment. So I decided to go to the nearby John Hancock building in order to ride up to the observatory there and view the city. For those of you who have never visited, Chicago is quite beautiful, […]
Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: bubble, Chicago, China, free economy, pyramids, real estate, skyscrapers
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Rahm Emanuel – The Fix Is In
December 31st, 2010
By Nancy Morgan I’m going to go out on a limb and make a public prediction. Rahm Emanuel will be Chicago’s next mayor. How do I know this? I’m not an expert, political heavyweight or a Chicago insider. I know Rahm will soon be called “His Honor” because I have something all the experts and […]
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Tags: Chicago, Daley, Emanuel, insider, mayor, Obama, power broker, residency
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Chicago Dodged a Bullet
October 4th, 2009
Chicago is probably better off for having lost their bid to host the Summer Olympics in 2016, at least in economic terms. That’s the case made by Stefan Szymanski in Myths About Landing the Olympics in The Washington Post. Szymanski, a British professor who studies these sorts of things, notes that beginning with Los Angeles in 1984, […]
Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Chicago, corruption, crime, Economics, Reo de Janeiro, Summer Olympics
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