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Have you ever had or witnessed a violent run-in with Haroon Paryani the man killed in February with his own cab? If so, a new Web site, www.endcabviolence.com, wants to hear from you. The site provides an e-mail address and phone number for you to report any violent incidents with the cab driver promising that the information will be kept private and confidential. Michael J. Jackson, a former Chicago Department of Public Health Employee, allegedly...

The implied mission of Mayor Richard M. Daley's new chief of staff, Ron Huberman, is to reform city government -- do what none of the almost dozen chiefs of staff before him were unable to do. Monday, in a press conference he announced, along with City Corporation Council Mara Georges, that patronage and clout in city hiring is over. "It doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter who you know. We are operating as...

Governor Milorad "Rod" Blagojevich doesn't talk to Dominic Longo. Longo doesn't talk much to John "Quarters" Boyle these days. Quarters isn't saying if he's friends with Michael J. Acosta (seen at right). Acosta won't talk about Nick "The Stick" LoCoco. And The Stick isn't talking at all, because he died in a horseriding accident last December.