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Chicago Sun-Times: Emanuel cuts ribbon on $16.9M tennis center on Robert Taylor site
Mayor Rahm Emanuel presided Saturday over a ceremonial “ribbon-cutting” for a city-subsidized project with potential to provide recreational opportunities for 4,000 inner-city students and bolster the mayor’s standing among African-American voters whose support he desperately needs to win a third term.
The $16.9 million XS Tennis Village built by the nation’s largest minority tennis organization on a site at 5256 to 5338 S. State that once housed the CHA’s Robert Taylor Homes has actually been open for months.
Northwest Herald: Crystal Lake School District 47 plans $11.8 million in summer projects
Construction workers will be all over the campuses of schools owned and operated by Crystal Lake Elementary School District 47 this summer.
The district has $11.8 million in construction projects on deck, most of which will be managed by the firm DLR Group, while the remainder will be completed by the district’s operations department. A $981,224 grant will knock the total cost paid by the district down to about $10.86 million.
Bloomington Pantagraph: Normal to vote on $102M budget including trash fee, water hikes
Normal residents may not notice a 16 percent drop in town spending at first — but they will sooner or later, officials say.
“There’s probably not gonna be an immediate and obvious impact, but in the long run it does impact our ability to provide services to the community,” said City Manager Mark Peterson of the town’s 2018-19 budget proposal, which is down $20 million from the year before. “There are tangible things people value that we’re not gonna be able to do.”