Chicago Daily Observer

Vallas.

Paul Vallas, superintendent of the Recovery School District of New Orleans and former reform superintendent of the Chicago public schools, will be the guest this Sunday on my WLS-AM (890) program (8 to 9 p.m.). He ran for the Democratic nomination for governor of Illinois in 2002, losing narrowly to Rod Blagojevich. Since then, he was CEO of the School District of Philadelphia, presiding over the nation’s largest experiment in privatized management of schools, turning over the management of 40 schools to for-profits, nonprofits and universities, winning national acclaim. Regarded as one of the finest public administrators in the nation, he left Philadelphia when his contract was completed and went to work in New Orleans where today he reports directly to the governor, now Bobby Jindal. His contract will be up in 2008. He was also budget director for the city of Chicago and director of budgetary ... Read More...

I see Smooth Stephen Kinzer is letting his activism get the better of him and intends to testify, and not under subpoena, to Chicago’s aldermen as an instrument of Joe Moore’s foreign-policy leftism. It’s official then, he’s no longer a reporter but a man whose biases — ahem, his conclusions based on extensive research — have got the better of him.

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2. Rte. 83 at 22nd Street Oakbrook Terr. DuPage 91
3. 79th Street at Stony Island Chicago Cook 88
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5. Rte. 132 at Rollins Road Gurnee Lake 82

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8. Randall Road at McHenry Ave. Crystal Lake McHenry 67
9. Butterfield Road at Finley Road Downers Grove DuPage 67
10. Weber at I-55 SB ramps Romeoville Will 67