Daley: Gun law 'reasonable' despite lawsuits challenging it

Published July 13, 2010 at 1:33 p.m.
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Posted by John Byrne at 1:32 p.m. Mayor Richard Daley today defended Chicago's new gun restrictions as "reasonable" in the face of lawsuits challenging its legality.A federal suit filed last week seeks to have a portion of the city's gun ...

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Daley: Dog deaths 'mistake,' but keep it in perspective

Published July 16, 2010 at 12:38 p.m.
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Posted by John Byrne at 12:38 p.m. The wrongful deaths of four dogs at the city's Animal Care and Control department were small mistakes in the context of the large number of animals the facility handles, Mayor Richard Daley said ...

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Daley poll numbers sag, but no challenger looms

Published July 16, 2010 at 8:56 p.m.
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Posted by Rick Pearson and Hal Dardick at 9 p.m. More than half of Chicago voters say they don’t want to see Mayor Richard Daley re-elected next year should he decide to run for a record seventh term, a new ...

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Bayless show debuts on satellite radio today

Published July 14, 2010 at 11:26 a.m.
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Posted by Bill Daley Superstar Chef Rick Bayless, right, hits satellite radio today as Sirius XM Radio launches "Fiesta at Rick's," a five-week series on Sirius' Martha Stewart Living Radio. The microphone gets switched on at 6 p.m. Central Time ...

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Daley poll numbers sag, but no major challenger looms

Published July 17, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.
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More than half of Chicago voters say they don't want to see Mayor Richard Daley re-elected next year should he decide to run for a record seventh term, a new Tribune/WGN poll shows ...

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Aviation Department Management Brings Home the Bacon

Published July 9, 2010 at 10:20 a.m.
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Sigh. Another day, another Sun-Times report about how much money the city is wasting paying top management. This time it's the staggering six layers of management that it takes to run the city's Aviation Department. According to the Sun-Times, it takes 49 management positions in the department to operate the city bureaucracy over Midway and O'Hare, and nearly 60 percent of those positions take home salaries that top $100,000 ... Lawrence Msall, President of the city's Civic Federation,

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City Asks For Disaster Money For Storm Clean-Up

Published July 11, 2010 at 12:15 p.m.
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Photo by Phototravel1 It has been quite a stormy summer season in Chicago thus far, and it appears Chicago could get repaid (in monetary form, of course) for all the damage Mother Nature left behind. The city is asking for $2.8 million to cover the costs of the damage that was incurred: ... Mayor Richard Daley proclaimed the week of June 18 as a natural disaster in Chicago. If the governor declares that period a disaster, and the federal government agrees, the city could be eligible for

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After Politicians Rally and March, the City Has Another Violent Weekend

Published June 21, 2010 at 3:42 p.m.

Mayor Richard M. Daley told hundreds gathered for an antiviolence march in Auburn-Gresham Friday night that he and the police were doing their jobs—it was up to them to end the violence in their communities ... "I can do as many marches as you want," he said, as impassioned and coherent as I've heard him in years. "We can walk up and down the street. We can do everything. But you have to say, one day, 'Enough is enough!' And not just saying the words—we need action on the street!" ... But

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State Reps Demand More Action From Daley on Violence: 'What We’ve Been Doing Isn’t Working'

Published June 23, 2010 at 4:57 p.m.

Two months ago state reps John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford called on Mayor Daley and Governor Quinn to consider using the national guard to battle violence in Chicago. The mayor dismissed the idea as a quick fix and tried to redirect the conversation, saying the legislators should be focused on helping him get tougher gun laws passed in Springfield—even though Chicago already has the toughest gun restrictions in the country ... “This is all about guns,” Daley said at the time ... But on

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Park District Balks at Gun-Rights Group Meeting

Published June 25, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.

Gerald Vernon says he did everything he should have to obtain a permit to hold a meeting at the Tuley Park field house on the south side. He told the park supervisor he expected 150 to 200 people to attend, filled out the paperwork she gave him, paid a $100 fee, and walked away thinking he'd reserved a meeting room for the evening of June 30. The group that would be convening was Illinois Carry, an organization advocating for the right to bear concealed firearms ... But on Wednesday, a week

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