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Parents at Chicago's Disney II Magnet school are trying to raise $100,000 just to keep their children in class an extra hour each day, officials said. Chicago public schools have some of the shortest days in the nation -- 5 hours 8 minutes of instruction...
Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Chicago News Cooperative, Chicago, Education, United Press International, DuPage County Illinois, Business Finance, Magnet school, Cook County Illinois
The phrase “Chicago distilleries” tends to elicit visions of cinematic gunfights and bullet-pocked Cadillacs not hyper-educated Gen Xers surrounded by 60 pounds of raw ginger. Welcome to the new era of boutique spirit making in Chicago. Your local...
Tags: North Shore Vodka, Birneckers, Koval Distillery, Chicago News Cooperative, Kassebaums, Sonat Birnecker, The Chicago Tribune, Vienna, Distillation, Gin, Still, Vodka
I didn’t vote in the baseball writers’ rookie of the year election, but if I did, I would have voted for Davis not so much for the numbers he put up as the presence he brought to the team as a 22-year-old switch-hitting outfielder. He was productive...
Tags: Gordon Beckham, White Sox, Chicago News Cooperative, France, Neuilly, Chicago White Sox, Robin Ventura, New York Yankees players, Ryne Sandberg, allnews, David Beckham
O'Shea, right, planned how to compete with The Chicago Tribune. Published: November 22, 2009 James E. O’Shea spent most of his career at The Chicago Tribune, but he was ousted from the Tribune Company in a highly publicized clash over staff cuts, and...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, The Tribune, Tribune Company, Texas Tribune, Chicago News Cooperative, The Chicago Reader, Mr. O’Shea, Chicago, The Oakland Tribune, City News Bureau of Chicago, James Warren, Tribune, Entertainment Culture
Almost a year from the day the Chicago Police Department unleashed a sweeping crackdown on gangs, its efforts crashed into stark reality Wednesday in a gritty area of the South Side that many in the neighborhood call "Kill Town." Luis Garcia, 17, was...
Tags: Chicago News Cooperative, Chicago Police Department, Mr. Weis, gangs member, chicago policing, street gangs, gangs leaders, Mr. Hagedorn, Mr. Garcia, Englewood, Sociology, Urban decay, Latin Kings, Maniac Latin Disciples, Gangs in the United States, Gangs, Crime, Law Crime
New York Times Co.'s namesake newspaper took the latest shot on Friday with the debut of two pages of local content in Chicago editions. News Corp. this month told employees of New York-based Dow Jones & Co., which includes the Journal, that the company...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Chicago News Cooperative, New York Times Co., San Francisco, International Herald Tribune, Tribune Co., News Corp., Times and Journal, New York Stock Exchange, local content, New York City, The New York Times, Newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, Lerner Newspapers, Entertainment Culture, Journalism, Printing, Dow Jones & Company, Business Finance
Newspapers are dying, which means there will never be any more investigative journalism and politicians will screw whomever they want. But it's OK, because "innovative" new "partnerships" like the Chicago News Cooperative are here to produce real journalism.
Tags: Chicago Tribune, CNC, Chicago News Cooperative, New York, Numerical control, Journalism, Printing, Newspaper, Entertainment Culture
After a rocky start hurt their bottom line, Chicago's new parking meter operators are raking in more than $1.1 million a week and expect even more revenue next year, according to internal company documents obtained by the Chicago News Cooperative.
Tags: Chicago Parking Meters LLC, Chicago News Cooperative, meter company, Chicago Skyway, Mr. Daley, writes tickets, Richard M. Daley, meter deals, private company, daley administration, South Bend, Prosecutors, Parking meter, Pay and display, Chicago Midway International Airport, Parking, Street furniture, DePaul University alumni, Business Finance
Now that the media business seems to have economically short-circuited, the former Los Angeles Times editor and Chicago Tribune managing editor has come up with what he believes is a new way to provide the juice needed to power public-service journalism....
Tags: The Chicago Tribune, Former Chicago Tribune, Chicago News Cooperative, Chicago Sun-Times for news, NY Times for Chicago, The New York Times, chicago edition, Los Angeles Times, Jim O'Shea, service journalism