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Friday, Jan 9, 2009

* Sun-Times Media Group Closing 12 Suburban Newspapers

* Homeless shelter lacks firm foundation

* Uptown men’s shelter will stay open under new management

* Principal: Poor kids ‘kicked out’ to make room for rich

The Near West Side school Thursday was told officials want to close Carpenter — where students are 97 percent low-income — and turn its building over to a Gold Coast elementary recently approved for a new high school.

“I’m still in shock. You’re taking our school to give to rich kids? What about poor kids? I’m so angry,” said parent Patricia Herron.

Chicago Public Schools officials declined comment, saying school closings, to be announced next week, haven’t been finalized.

* Bartlett joins Barrington, Will County in fight against CN

* Opponents of EJ&E sale meet to weigh options today

* Chicago loses out on $153 million transit grant; Mayor Daley blames feds for blown deadline

* Chicago community groups hope Olympics wish list becomes law

* Scores scramble for Chicago-area U.S. Census jobs

* Finding a new job becomes harder as layoffs mount

* Job losses stack up as recession deepens

* Illinois, 41 other states in salmonella outbreak

* Election officials seek court approval of Emanuel special election

* Voters lose when political games deny them choices

* New term, new bills for Biggert

* Halvorson has work cut out for her in Congress

* That 5th CD thing

* Letter to Rep. Rush prompts hazmat response

* Krupa will donate pay to Wildlife Prairie State Park

* Audit chief fired after Hired Truck scandal

* Highway officials should resign, commissioners say

* Because Old Habits Die Hard

- posted by Mike Murray

2 Comments

- Cassandra - Friday, Jan 9, 09 @ 9:35 am:
I can’t believe that Chicago still has schools were kids are 97% percent low income. Family income has replaced race as the 21st century segregation. If the kids have to go to another school which is equally segregated as to income, this mother is right to be angry.

- NoGiftsPlease - Friday, Jan 9, 09 @ 9:23 pm:
I like the differences in reporting on Chicago’s loss of congestion relief funds. Crains reports that Chicago missed the deadline. Other local papers write stories saying the feds are at fault for not extending the deadline. That is kind of unfair finger pointing — the requirements and the deadline were clear. The congestion pricing was a core part of the program and was the same reason New York lost these funds — they couldn’t pass the pricing part.

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