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Power Station's Closing Could Create Problems
Mon, 02/13/2012
For years, environmental and health organizations have called for the closing of the 83-year-old coal-fired State Line Power Station, one of the Chicago area’s top polluters. Now the plant, which is in Hammond, just across the Indiana border on Lake Michigan and adjacent to Calumet Park, is burning through its last stores of coal. It will stop...

Warren: Fox News' Cheap Shot
Sun, 09/25/2011
Mike Quigley knows about cheap shots on ice. Now he’s an expert on being blindsided on the internet and cable TV. Quigley, a Democratic Chicago congressman, had a relatively light Saturday recently. He played ice hockey in the morning, did a beach cleanup with the Sierra Club and hit four block parties in the 32nd, 43rd and 44th Wards. Along the...

Sheriff Points Way to Curbing Clout
Sun, 05/01/2011
Tom Dart made Rahm Emanuel’s campaign easier by not running for mayor. Now the Cook County sheriff might have simplified his governing by giving him a road map—and an amateur video— to solve a 42-year-old city mess. The untidiness is the anti-patronage Shakman case, the suit filed against the City of Chicago and other local government bodies in...