Own a business or live downtown? Want pretty parks to make your life more pleasurable? Daley says if your answer is "yes" to both questions then you should put your money where your mouth is. The City is considering a special taxing zone downtown to pay for landscaping, transportation upgrades, beautification of the central business district and operating Millennium Park. If the "Downtown Special Service Area" wins approval, property owners downtown will be hit with... more ›

Mayor Daley advised his book club followers yesterday to go forth and read en masse Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s classic 1940 Western saga The Ox-Bow Incident as the eighth in the city’s “One Book, One Chicago” exercise. more ›