From the Pioneer Press

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Loyola plan under fire
BY ANGELA CAPUTO
Loyola is taking the lead in going green, preparing to break ground on a $30 million library annex this summer that will put the college on the cutting edge of environmentally-friendly design. Ironically, though, the building will pave over a coveted grassy knoll on the lakefront, a move that has some open space advocates opposing the project.
People's pushed to 'step it up'
BY ANGELA CAPUTO
On behalf of all the consumers who have followed prompts then sat on the line waiting for a live person at People's Energy to answer the phone -- only to be cut off -- aldermen railed against the gas company last week, demanding better customer service.
Tax revolt planned
BY PATRICK BUTLER
Rogers Park Township homeowner Antonette Caruso is one of several thousand who just received assessment notices for next year. And she's mad as hell that she will be paying an estimated 70 percent increase come August, 2007, unless the 7 percent tax assessment cap is renewed in time.
TIF district plan irks West Ridge neighbors
BY LORRAINE SWANSON
West Ridge neighbors are miffed about a proposed Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district that Alderman Bernard Stone, D-50th, says will set aside $32 million in future property tax dollars for redevelopment in the Touhy-Western area.

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