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News & Features, Politics, Apr 1, 2010
Do as We Say, Not as We Do

The Chicago Public Schools are broke. Teachers have been asked to share the pain. Coaches have been asked to work for free. Bigger class sizes have been threatened. So why are CEO Ron Huberman and other top bureaucrats taking raises?
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Chicago Public Schools, Ron Huberman, Mayor Daley, Board of Education, Monique Bond, Eduardo Garza, Martin Sandoval, Ed Burke, City Hall, Board of Ed, David Pickens, Arne Duncan, Michael Scott, Rufus Williams, Barbara Lumpkin, CEO for external affairs, Chicago budget, CPS budget, city budget crisis, education

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News & Features, Politics, Feb 10, 2011
Separate, Unequal, and Ignored

Racial segregation remains Chicago's most fundamental problem. Why isn't it an issue in the mayor's race?
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Politics, Chicago, race, segregation, election, politics, census, black, white, Latino, Hispanic, demographics, Chicago Housing Authority, Patricia Watkins, William "Dock" Walls, Miguel del Valle, Rahm Emanuel, Gery Chico, Carol Mosley Braun

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News & Features, Politics, Apr 8, 2010
Medical Marijuana Is Already Legal in Illinois

And it has been for three decades. But it'll take the passage of another law to make it available to patients.
- by Claire Thompson

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News & Features, Politics, Jan 27, 2011
Mr. Nice Guy

Is Miguel del Valle tough enough to be mayor? And does toughness matter?
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Miguel del Valle

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News & Features, Politics, Sep 2, 2010
Define "Redefinition"

Exemplary art teacher Sunny Neater-DuBow was fired without due process because CPS says her job has been redefined. So why is her exact job now posted as an opening?
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Sunny Neater-DuBow, CPS, Chicago Public Schools, Ron Huberman, Multicultural Arts High School, redefinition, Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, Mayor Daley, TIF, tax increment financing, turnaround, tenure, MAHS, Reassigned Teacher Pool, Liz Brown, honorable dismissal, National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, Alicia Winckler, Board of Education

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News & Features, Politics, Jul 22, 2010
Why Can't Chicago Recycle?

A world-class city, a "green" mayor—what's the problem? Insiders say the city's budget woes are only part of the story.
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Politics, recycling, recycling bins, blue carts, Department of Environment, waste, Mike Nowak, Chicago Recycling Coalition, Climate Action Plan, blue bags, Michael Picardi, Streets and Sanitation, Joe Moore, Mayor Daley, Richard M. Daley, Scott Waguespack, City Council, blue cart program, blue bag program, National Solid Wastes Management Association, Tom Allen, Tom Byrne, Fran Spielman, Matt Smith, Chicago Sun-Times, privatization, Chicago High Density Residential and Commercial Source Reduction and Recycling Ordinance, Burke-Hansen Ordinance, Helen Shiller, 46th Ward, scavengers, Dina Demetrio

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News & Features, Politics, May 27, 2010
Less Is More at CPS

Schools CEO Ron Huberman says he's cut 50 administrators from the central office. But records show he's added almost as many—at higher salaries.
- by Ben Joravsky

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News & Features, Feature, Oct 22, 2009
The Shadow Budget

The Daley administration commands an off-the-books kitty of taxpayer money equivalent to a sixth of the official city budget. Now we’ve got documents that show what they want to do with it.
- by Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, TIF, TIFs, tax increment financing, tax-increment financing, Mayor Daley, Chicago budget crisis, Chicago budget shortfall, Mayor Daley, Richard Daley, Skyway, Chicago parking meters, Willis Tower, City Council, Walter Burnett, 27th Ward, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Gene Saffold, Christine Raguso, TIF budget, Molly Sullivan, Department of Community Development, DCD, MillerCoors, United Airlines, LaSalle Central TIF, Robert Fioretti, Jack George, American Landmark Properties, Daley & George, Roseland/Michigan TIF, Anthony Beale, 9th Ward, Calumet-Cermak TIF district, Jones High School, Scott Waguespack, 32nd Ward, Rick Munoz, 22nd Ward

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News & Features, Politics, Oct 6, 2011
The $78 million bag

That's what Cook County spent last year on weed (or to arrest and prosecute those possessing it)
- by Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Grass Gap, marijuana, pot, marijuana arrests, Cook County, marjauna legalization, John Fritchey, Chicago Police Departmnet, police work, marijuana tax, Rahm Emanuel

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News & Features, Politics, Mar 3, 2011
How Ameya Pawar Bowled Over 47th Ward

Joravsky gladly eats crow after young upstart busts machine
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Ameya Pawar, Alderman Eugene Schulter, 47th Ward, election 2011, Northwestern University, Chicago City Council, Toni Preckwinkle, Barack Obama, Timber Lanes Bowling Alley, Tom O'Donnell, Tom Jacks, Matt Reichel, Rahm Emanuel, John Fritchey, Bridget Gainer, Mike Quigley, Dan Hynes, Greg Harris, Forrest Claypool, Gery Chico, Mick Dumke, Carol Moseley Braun

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News & Features, Politics, May 20, 2010
The Shadow Budget: Who Wins in Daley's TIF Game

The economic development funds are supposed to go to neighborhoods that need it. Guess where they're really going. For the first time ever: how the city spends TIF funds, ward by ward
- by Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, TIFs, tax-increment fiancing, TIF map, West Englewood, 15th Ward, 41st Ward, Mayor Daley, Richard M. Daley, Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, Bronzeville TIF, 2nd Ward, 3rd Ward, 4th Ward, Chatham, Beverly, Lakeview, Rogers Park, Loop, 27th Ward, 42nd Ward, Gold Coast, Garfield Park, City Council, City Hall, Anthony Beale, 9th Ward, Roseland, Robert Fioretti, Bob Fioretti, Wicker Park, Lincoln Park, Chicago Riverwalk, Brendan Reilly, Isaac Carothers, 29th Ward, Hillary Rodham Clinton Park, Prairie Avenue Historic District, Harpo Studios, MillerCoors, 250 S. Wacker, Chicago Christian Industrial League, New Ritz, Kennedy-King College, Walmart, Walter Burnett, 27th Ward, 60th and Western TIF district, West Englewood, Chicago Lawn, Near West TIF District, Greektown, 14th Ward, Ed Burke, 32nd Ward, Roscoe Village, Wicker Park, 32nd Ward, Scott Waguespack, 38th Ward, Tom Allen, 22nd Ward, Rick Munoz, shadow budget, TIF shadow budget

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News & Features, Politics, Aug 12, 2010
The Vanishing Beat Cop

Thanks to an old budget trick, Chicago has even fewer police on the streets than it appears.
- by Ben Joravsky

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News & Features, Politics, Apr 13, 2011
Stacking the Odds in Favor of Charter Schools

Charters unload problem students onto neighboring public schools - then reap the benefits.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, education, charter schools, Chicago Public Schools, Union League Club, Urban Prep High School, Chicago Teachers Union, Prtizker College Prep, Arne Duncan, Noble Street, Penny Pritzker

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News & Features, Politics, Oct 28, 2010
The Practical Party

Or, why I won't be voting my gut much on Tuesday
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Rich Whitney, Pat Quinn, elections, Democratic Party, Green Party, Tom Tresser, Joe Berrios, Forrest Claypool

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News & Features, Politics, Jan 20, 2011
Chico and the Man

Now that he's running for office, Gery Chico would rather you forget his ties to Mayor Daley
- by Ben Joravsky

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News & Features, Politics, Apr 15, 2010
A Raise by Any Other Name

Schools officials say that while top brass are getting paid more than they used to, that doesn't mean they've gotten raises.
- by Ben Joravsky

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The Chicago Public Schools are broke. Teachers have been asked to share the pain. Coaches have been asked to work for free. Bigger class sizes have been threatened. So why are CEO Ron Huberman and other top bureaucrats taking raises?

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Racial segregation remains Chicago's most fundamental problem. Why isn't it an issue in the mayor's race?

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And it has been for three decades. But it'll take the passage of another law to make it available to patients.

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Is Miguel del Valle tough enough to be mayor? And does toughness matter?

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Exemplary art teacher Sunny Neater-DuBow was fired without due process because CPS says her job has been redefined. So why is her exact job now posted as an opening?

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A world-class city, a "green" mayor—what's the problem? Insiders say the city's budget woes are only part of the story.

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Schools CEO Ron Huberman says he's cut 50 administrators from the central office. But records show he's added almost as many—at higher salaries.

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The Daley administration commands an off-the-books kitty of taxpayer money equivalent to a sixth of the official city budget. Now we’ve got documents that show what they want to do with it.

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That's what Cook County spent last year on weed (or to arrest and prosecute those possessing it)

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Joravsky gladly eats crow after young upstart busts machine

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The economic development funds are supposed to go to neighborhoods that need it. Guess where they're really going. For the first time ever: how the city spends TIF funds, ward by ward

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Thanks to an old budget trick, Chicago has even fewer police on the streets than it appears.

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Charters unload problem students onto neighboring public schools - then reap the benefits.

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Or, why I won't be voting my gut much on Tuesday

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Now that he's running for office, Gery Chico would rather you forget his ties to Mayor Daley

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Schools officials say that while top brass are getting paid more than they used to, that doesn't mean they've gotten raises.

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A sop to angry parents—and a slap at the teachers' union

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If his challenge to Deb Mell's nominating petition succeeds, state rep candidate Joe Laiacona just might run unopposed in the Democratic primary. But can a leather master actually win in the general election?

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No way is Mayor Daley going down without a fight. But perhaps you've noticed: he rarely ever gets one.

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The Cirque de Silly is back in town.

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