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...political lives of both men are predicated on service - Obama as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side and McCain as a naval officer who spent five years as a prisoner of war - and, despite different approaches, both have put forth plans to spur Americans to heed similar calls. McCain's plan includes streamlining federal volunteer programs via a central office in the White House, providing more support for the federal work-study program and allocating federal matching funds for private-sector job-training programs. Obama's proposals include tuition reimbursement for teachers in underserved communities and the creation...
...Chicago's calculation, Bensenville is a necessary casualty. "This is a project of national significance," says Rosemarie Andolino, the OMP's executive director, who rattles off the airport-expansion plan's hefty benefits: up to 195,000 new jobs, an annual $18 billion boost in economic activity and the potential to slash average passenger delays at one of the country's most congested airports from...
While residents call their fight a David-vs.-Goliath battle, the village may soon be forced to pocket its slingshot. Last month a county judge dissolved an injunction that had prevented Chicago from razing the acquisition area until the environmental impact could be measured. Unless an appeals court steps in as Bensenville's 11th-hour savior, the path is clear for the bulldozers to start rolling. And while 14 million cubic yd. (11 million cubic m) of dirt have already been moved in the reclamation, a small plot of sacred soil continues to stoke debate: the project's footprint covers...
Amid these legal skirmishes, neighborhood holdouts vow not to be strong-armed out of the community where they nurtured careers and families. "How can [Chicago] come in here and say, 'I'm taking your home?'" asks longtime resident Gail Flores. "This is America...
...growing number of U.S. towns and cities are fighting escalating crime by imposing tough curfew ordinances. In Chicago, people under the age of 17 have to be off the streets by 10 p.m. on weekdays and 11 p.m. on weekends. Mayor Richard Daley believes the ordinance will help prevent further gun crime, which has taken the lives of nearly 30 Chicago public school students this academic year alone. But while the curfews may be popular with voters, civil-rights advocates argue that they are violating constitutional rights...