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Byline: Dan Mihalopoulos and Laurie Cohen
Oct. 21--Suburban-style, curbside recycling containers will replace the unpopular blue bags at homes in Chicago's 1st, 5th, 8th, 19th, 37th, 46th and 47th Wards, under a plan city and state officials are expected to announce Saturday. The plan calls for the state to give the city $8 million over the next four years to help buy the containers, according to a draft press release obtained by the Tribune. Sources familiar with the plans confirmed details on the condition they not be named. The expansion represents another step away from Mayor Richard Daley's controversial blue bag program. Daley has long defended the ...