Former Mayor Daley’s staff saw parking-meter problems brewing, records show

Former Mayor Richard M. Daley’s staff was aware of major problems with the city’s parking-meter privatization deal in 2010 — a year and a half before the costly issues publicly surfaced, according to hundreds of pages of documents released Wednesday by Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration.

• Census: Despite population growth, Chicago still at a loss

  Chicago gained nearly 10,000 people from July 2011 to July 2012, but was the slowest-growing major city in the country according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday.

  Census data shows cities booming, Chicago with modest population gain

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