* Kadner: Illinois can vote for con-con in November…
If you want to shake up the power brokers in Springfield, this may be the best way to do it.
* Con Con Considerations: Compensation
* Still deliberating on Rezko
* Report criticizes GOP power broker over hotel deal
* Former Hotel Owners May Have Abused State Loans
* Illinois treasurer denounces ‘cozy’ hotel
* Chicago City Council Committees Evade The Law, Experts Say
* Children’s Museum vote unlikely Tuesday
* Michigan Ave. ‘wall’ on danger list
* Daley Contends Crime Numbers
* City wants its cut from Stubhub, eBay tickets
In January, 2006, Rolling Stones fans coughed up as much as $1,500-a-ticket to watch Mick Jagger strut his stuff at the United Center.
They should have paid the city’s 8 percent amusement tax — $120 for a $1,500 — just like everyone else who buys from a broker. But if they bought their tickets on the Internet, Chicago taxpayers got zilch.
* Cronyism is the star of Stroger’s hiring show
* Hoffman Estates chief critical of officer’s Stroger snub
* Cook County state’s attorney foes go back and forth on corruption
* Oh, shoot!
So, what does an alderman do when he finds himself in violation of the law? He writes a new law. Mell has quietly introduced an ordinance that would reopen gun registration in Chicago and create a one-month amnesty for himself and other gun owners in the same predicament.
* Hearing on public defender’s job postponed
* Stroger drops effort to fire public defender
* Politics and public defenders
* Deal keeps Cook Co. public defender on the job
Burnette will keep his job after the two reached some sort of agreement Monday that will avoid a public hearing today before the Cook County Board on Burnette’s dismissal, said Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin, who said he had spoken to Burnette Monday.
* Larry Walsh pleads guilty to DUI
* State issuing trail grants
* Special election has Kane Co. elections dept. in $680,000 hole
* Law would help track abusive teachers
* House OKs creation of Lincoln anniversary license plates
* White: Recommendations to cut distracted driving should save lives
* Obama opposes rail deal