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Chicago Tribune: Mayor Rahm Emanuel announces proposed AFSCME deal with 10.5% raises for unionized city workers
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has agreed to a deal that would give thousands of unionized city workers raises totaling 10.5 percent over the next few years, his administration announced Thursday.
The tentative deal with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31 would cover about 3,500 workers throughout city government. It still requires City Council approval, though that’s largely a formality.
Chicago Sun-Times: Daleys, other Chicago pols raise money for Bridgeport charity with IRS problems
For 13 years, the Internal Revenue Service hounded a politically connected Bridgeport charity to pay back taxes, slapping it with a series of liens totaling $109,000, records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times show.
At the same time, the charity, Benton House, let its buildings fall into disrepair, resulting in repeated citations from City Hall inspectors for building code violations.
Crain's Chicago Business: Scottie Pippen asking barely more than he paid for home in 2004
With a new price cut, former Bulls great Scottie Pippen is asking just a smidgen more than he paid for his Highland Park home 14 years ago.
Pippen, who was with the Bulls during its six NBA championship runs in the 1990s, and his wife, Larsa, cut the price on the 10,000-square-foot home on Old Mill Road to just 1 percent above what he paid for it in 2004.
Daily Herald: All-day kindergarten at the mall? District 15 wants to use 40% of Palatine center
Palatine Township Elementary District 15 wants to spend about $20 million to acquire and renovate vacant space at a mall for an all-day kindergarten program and early childhood center.
District 15 would occupy 80,000 square feet of the Park Place shopping center, which borders a Walmart southeast of Rand and Dundee roads in Palatine. But the district first needs the village to approve an ordinance amendment that would allow the educational facility to occupy about 40 percent of the mall.
Daily Herald: Dist. 131 teachers union, board reach tentative contract deal
East Aurora District 131 teachers union and school board have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, according to a news release Thursday evening from the Illinois Federation of Teachers.
Details of the agreement won’t be released until it is reviewed and voted on by the union’s 1,400 members, which the union hopes to do soon, the release said.