Latest Windy Citizen links by Kayla Webley

Obama's grandmother dies

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:01:12 -0600

A day before the presidential election, Barack Obama announced the death Monday of his grandmother, who helped raise him and who he praised as the cornerstone of his family.

Studs Terkel dies

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:14:54 -0500

Author-radio host-actor-activist and Chicago symbol Louis "Studs" Terkel died at his home on the North Side today. He was 96.

Whoring For Hope: Everybody With Spare Obama Tickets Is Getting So Laid

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:54:22 -0500

If you’ve got a spare ticket to Obama’s Election Night Party in Chicago, you are going to get more ass than a toilet seat.

Obama fans flock to Web for 'sold-out' tickets to Grant Park party

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:08:45 -0500

With tickets gone for the Election Night rally in Chicago's Grant Park for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama -- the campaign refused to say how many there are or how quickly they ran out

Toasted Kellogg students flake at Field Museum

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:08:04 -0500

The Field Museum had to close the bar early when drunken students from Northwestern's prestigious Kellogg School of Management reportedly threw things at Sue the T. Rex.

Chicago Tribune endorses Obama for President

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:56:20 -0500

Chicago Tribune Editorial Board endorsement: On Nov. 4 we're going to elect a president to lead us through a perilous time and restore in us a common sense of national purpose.

First pay-for-grades checks issued to Chicago students

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:08:06 -0500

More than 1,650 CPS students paid for good grades. 'This is investing in you,' Harvard economics professor tells teens.

Around the Coyote Takes Over a New Neighborhood

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:01:52 -0500

For eighteen years Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood has been host to the Around the Coyote Festival. The festival begins tonight and runs through the weekend, but not in Wicker Park.

Daley wants to cut 929 city jobs

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:24:06 -0500

Acknowledging that nuts-and-bolts city services would suffer, Mayor Daley today proposed laying off 929 city employees, eliminating 1,346 vacancies and raising fees, parking and amusement taxes to sol

Blago wants carpool lanes for tollways. Do you?

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:22:56 -0500

Gov. Blagojevich wants to set aside ‘free-flow’ lane for those who share rides, drive hybrids — or pay more.