Bring It On: Chicago Unions Want Want To Compete With Private Sector, Promise Rahm Big Savings

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Bring It On: Chicago Unions Want Want To Compete With Private Sector, Promise Rahm Big Savings In response to layoffs threatened by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago's labor leaders have made a set of proposals they believe will save the city hundreds of millions of dollars a year, starting with free competition with the private sector. The savings would more than offset the hole in the budget that prompted Emanuel to send layoff notices to 625 city workers earlier this month. Those pink slips came out as a result of a deficit of only $30 million. Boy, 13, Shot Eight Times By Cops While Allegedly Holding A BB Gun WATCH: Amy Winehouse's Chicago Legacy Women's Soccer Stars Will Be The Faces Of The Chicago Marathon Report: Chicago Home Prices (Finally) On The Rise BLOG POSTS Brad Spirrison: New iPhone App Tracks the "Misery" of Chicago Sports Fans Chicago sports fans are living in the worst of times. The White Sox are underachieving while the Cubs are historically bad. Now there is a new iPhone app to quantify our anguish. LaVar Young: Summertime Crime: What's Being Done? Cookouts, visits to the beach and camp for the kids are all a part of the summertime allure. But there is a dark side to all that sunshine and leisure: crime. Brett Ashley McKenzie: Meat Lover's Lament: A Pledge to Eat Humanely "Where does your meat come from?" It's a question that grocers, restaurateurs, deli counters, and cafeterias should know the answer to, and it's a question you should ask freely... yet few of us do. Elysabeth Alfano: Performance Poet and Poetry Slam Founder, Marc Smith I sat down with Poetry Slam founder and performance poet Marc Smith to discuss how this rough and tough guy from the Southeast side came to create such an institution. Toni Preckwinkle: Good Government Through the Looking Glass I realize that simple band-aid solutions won't fix broad, systemic problems. A key step towards reform in any government requires taking an honest and thorough look at the current budgets and programs.

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