- News & Features, Feature, Sep 22, 2011
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Basketball controversies
In the name of protecting kids, there's a movement to take their sports equipment away
- News & Features, Feature, Mar 24, 2011
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How To Fix the El
The CTA’s Red and Purple Modernization project is a rare chance to rethink Chicago’s rail system. Here’s what we should do.
- News & Features, Feature, Aug 19, 2010
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From Farm to Food Desert
Black farmers need customers. Black Chicagoans need healthy food. Connecting them isn't as easy as it sounds.
- News & Features, Feature, Aug 22, 2012
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Deadly poverty
Homicide is just one of many killers plaguing Chicago's poor black neighborhoods
- News & Features, Feature, Mar 6, 2012
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The color of his skin
A missing gun, a wavering prosecution, and decades of regret.
Part 2 of 2.
- News & Features, Feature, Jun 16, 2011
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The misfire
Chicago's tough gun law was supposed to help officials track who's acquiring guns and who's misusing them. So far it's doing neither.
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 29, 2012
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The color of his skin
Joe Henson was killed because he was black. Forty years later, the daughter he never met is still searching for clues about his death. Part 1 of 2.
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 30, 2009
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The Passion of David Bazan
At the Cornerstone Christian rock festival, a fallen evangelical returns to sing about why he broke up with God.
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 17, 2012
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Two students, two high schools, two divergent paths to college
Jasmeen Wellere grew up on the south side, Hayley Himmelman on the North Shore. Both flourished in their classes, but they've faced very different challenges—and been afforded very different opportunities
- News & Features, Feature, Jun 28, 2012
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The mayor's millionaire club, part II
A look at Rahm Emanuel's calendar shows how wealth and access, far more than party identity or ideology, have come to comand the attention of politicians—leaving everyday people out of the conversation
- News & Features, Feature, Sep 23, 2010
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Filed Away?
"Honorably terminated" teachers—some nationally recognized—say they can't get so much as a callback about jobs in the Chicago Public Schools. One colleague's bureaucratic nightmare has given them reason to fear the worst.
- News & Features, Politics, Aug 19, 2009
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The Real Estate King of the Chicago City Council
Brand-new 26th Ward alderman Roberto Maldonado owns more properties than any other council rep—including ten in his own ward. That's a lot of potential conflicts of interest.
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 18, 2012
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Pariahs amid the rainbow
Young, queer, and homeless in Boystown
- News & Features, Feature, Apr 25, 2012
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Besieged
West Humboldt is one of America's biggest open-air drug markets. What does that mean for its residents?
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 27, 2011
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The mayor's millionaire club
Who has access to Rahm Emanuel’s inner sanctum
- News & Features, Feature, Sep 8, 2011
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The price of intolerance, part 2
Forty years after racial tensions escalated to tragedy in a south-side neighborhood, Duffie Clark maintains that someone else pulled the trigger.
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 25, 2010
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Human Care Bears
Rahm Emanuel's "retarded" outburst made good headlines, but the way some advocates portray the mentally disabled is far more offensive.
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 21, 2011
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Public schools, private budgets
Charter schools are the fastest-growing part of Chicago's public education system, but how they spend our tax money is mostly a secret
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 14, 2011
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The Battle in Boys Town
Is the problem violence or racism?
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 22, 2009
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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.
