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Electronic Filing Lags in Cook County Court Cases
Tue, 02/21/2012
Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court Dorothy Brown, who is seeking her fourth term in office, often talks about how she has modernized the technology in her office, which maintains the records for one of the largest court systems in the country. But even as court systems elsewhere move ahead in the critical area of electronic filing–or allowing...

A Push to Bar Lawmakers From Lobbying
Mon, 01/16/2012
Lobbying by Illinois lawmakers would be barred under a bill proposed by the Legislature’s inspector general, who monitors ethical conduct by state representatives and senators. “Legislators should not be allowed to be paid to lobby on behalf of clients before any public body,” said the inspector general, Thomas J. Homer, who plans to introduce the...

Assessments of Schools Are Flawed, Report Says
Fri, 09/30/2011
In 20 years of near-constant reform efforts, Chicago’s elementary school students have made few gains, high school students have advanced, and the achievement gap between poor and rich areas has widened, a major University of Chicago study found, contradicting impressions created by years of Chicago Public Schools testing data. The report examined...

Even old-hand entrepreneurs need mentoring
Mon, 09/19/2011
Tips on locating mentors and building a strong working relationship with themWhen Kenny Lao found out in July that his Rickshaw Dumpling Bar had won a proposal to open a restaurant in Times Square this fall, he realized that the tight time frame allowed no room for mistakes. “This was an unplanned opening,” Mr. Lao said. Mr. Lao turned to the...

Scoutmob tries to outdeal Groupon
Thu, 04/14/2011
(Reuters) -- Despite Groupon’s virtual stranglehold on the group-buying space, David Payne thinks it’s vulnerable. The co-founder of rival startup Scoutmob said Groupon’s margins aren’t sustainable and feels he has a better solution for deal-crazy consumers and businesses. “When people look at this space they see it as a zero-sum game,” said...

When marketing to millennials, it's not all about digital
Thu, 04/14/2011
Like them or not, you can't get away with ignoring the millennials. As everyone from advertising agencies, marketers and their own parents try to figure out what makes them tick, OMD weighs in with the results of a lengthy look at millennial shopping habits. The study, by Pamela Marsh and Erin Bilezikjian-Johnson, was part survey, part...

In Dorchester, a House Becomes a Home for Art
Thu, 04/07/2011
The wooden floors of the house at 6918 South Dorchester Avenue came from a West Side bowling alley. The stacks of vinyl records once stocked a Hyde Park record shop, and some of the windows once served as doors in a museum. Viewed from the kitchen, the words “Museum Hours: 9 to 5” run backward across the glass.  The works of the artist...