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Around 9:42 this morning, an armed robber, believed to be male, attempted to rob a First Commercial Bank branch at 6945 N. Clark St. According to the Tribune, something went wrong and the robbery escalated to a hostage situation. The hostages were freed around 1:30 p.m.; none of them were harmed. No one is saying whether the gunman is still in the bank, or has been arrested.

This election has been one of the most significant in recent memory. With seven new aldermen set to take office in May, including the wife of Jesse Jackson Jr. in the 7th Ward, the stage is set for a new power struggle in Chicago. This year, more than any other, saw the city's labor movement — especially the service-sector unions — flex their political muscle. The result? A record-low turnout in the mayoral vote, and...

Now that all the aldermanic candidates are rested and refreshed, and the runoffs are coming quickly upon us, there is a renewed sense of hatred and mudslinging in the wards that are still contested this year. In the 49th Ward, Alderman Joe Moore is pointing to the $60,000 that his opponent Don Gordon took from money manager David Herro of Harris Associates, a major Wal-Mart stock-holder. While connecting those dots requires a bit of a...

You remember back in November, when the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce announced that it was going to develop some clout of its own. Claiming that they wanted to make sure they could protect their interests and take out aldermen that threatened those interests, they had announced that they were going to build their own political machine, including having employees of their members canvass neighborhoods. Now it seems that the ghost of corruption past has found...

Mayor Daley put up a proverbial middle finger in the face of all the lah-dee-dahing about him losing his grip on City Council today and vetoed the Big Box ordinance. The controversial ordinance, which aldermen approved at the end of July would raise the minimum wage mammoth retailers like Target and Wal-Mart would have to pay employees in the city.

Chalk up Michael Tsonton and Copper Blue as the second restaurant accused of serving banned foie gras. Unlike Block 44, however, Tsonton may also be guilty of trying to parse the English language as a way around the ban. As vocal as Tsonton has been opposing the ban, it's surprising that one of his restaurants wasn't the first cited for violating it.

We hope that everyone who wanted a final slice of foie gras got some before the city’s ban on the delicacy went into effect yesterday. There were some restaurants that decided to serve it in defiance of the ordinance (mainly bandwagon jumpers who had never served the dish prior to the ban, but see the frivolous nature behind the ban). We spent last night at home, watching Alderman Joe Moore on “Chicago Tonight”, who refused to let common sense get in the way of politics and bureaucracy, defending the ban. If City Council could only only turn this can-do spirit on enforcing the Shakman decree, removing ghost employees from the payroll, and finding a solution, other than soft asphalt, to fixing that pothole in Pilsen that nearly swallowed our bicycle whole last week. Still, it's nice to see Alderman Moore stick to his guns, even if he's only carrying empty water pistols.

Chicagoist is sometimes a bad judge of character. Sometimes we meet someone new and are too quick to like them. Too quick to marvel in their awesomeness, only to be eventually let down when we realize they’re not so perfect, and really kind of a schmuck. That’s how we feel about Target right about now.

The Tribune released a report today on a pretty interesting map they recently “acquired” (found under their doorway, got from the man smoking a cigarette in the alley—potato, potahto). This map essentially provided a list of the people with the most clout in Chicago—a lot of whom have been namedropped in federal court this week.

Today the New York Times published an article detailing Mayor Daley’ recent corruption woes and the resulting decrease in power and influence he has over those serving in the City Council:

Even though it has been proven to us beyond a shadow of a doubt that Mayor Daley’s beloved blue bag recycling program is little more than a blue plastic sheen over a big steaming pile of favoritism and kickbacks, there are three garbage cans in our kitchen: one for garbage, and two lined with blue bags. One for plastic/metal, and one for paper.