- News & Features, Feature, Dec 12, 2012
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City for sale
The city has put a price tag on everything from parking meters to CTA stops, billboards to city departments. But what's the real cost of plastering our public space with ads?
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 4, 2012
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Aldermen raise serious questions about billboard deal, then advance it anyway
As expected, the Chicago City Council advances the city's latest privatization plan
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 16, 2012
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Why your alderman (and mine) always votes yes on the Chicago city budget
Analysis of the latest rubber-stamp budget vote by the Chicago City Council
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 5, 2012
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New pot law hasn't ended grass gap
Chicago police are busting fewer people for marijuana offenses—but only in certain neighborhoods
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 4, 2012
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The people v. the pawnshop
How one vacant lot became a battleground between the politically powerful pawnshop industry and the outspoken residents of a middle-class Chicago neighborhood—and what that says about the future of development in the city
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 3, 2012
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How Chicago said yes to pot
The politics behind our new marijuana law
- News & Features, Sidebar, Jun 28, 2012
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Pull up a chair
Fifteen of the donors and insiders who got access to Rahm Emanuel
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 21, 2012
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Aldermen say yes to pot law changes
Rahm Emanuel's decriminalization proposal moves forward
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 30, 2012
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The friends of Patrick Daley Thompson
The latest Daley to run for office attracts the interest—and checks—of many of the city’s powerful
- News & Features, Politics, Feb 23, 2012
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The Reader goes to charter school
A visit with UNO's Juan Rangel
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 26, 2012
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Alderman Ed Burke acknowledges the existence of a mere mortal
The finance committee chairman marches into City Council
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 5, 2012
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Rahm swears off swearing for 2012
Mayor Emanuel is giving up cursing, impeachable sources say
- News & Features, Politics, Dec 29, 2011
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Our first-ever awards for 'achievement' in local politics
Honoring the deeds and misdeeds of 2011 at the city, county, and state level
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 15, 2011
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A financial exchange
CME needed the big tax break it just got, because it has so many hungry pols to feed.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 12, 2011
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A bit of the old, a bit of the new in Mayor Emanuel's first budget
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 30, 2011
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New City Council, just about the same as the old City Council
- Blogs, Bleader, May 18, 2011
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The first meeting of the new mayor and City Council is nothing if not efficient
Mayor Rahm Emanuel presides over his first full City Council meeting, which runs about as smoothly as the ones Mayor Daley used to preside over.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 4, 2011
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Up Is Down and Love Is Everywhere at Daley's Last City Council Meeting
Mayor Daley presided over his last City Council meeting pretty much the same way he presided over the others for 22 years.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 26, 2011
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More on Burke and Rahm; aka, Committee Assignment Process Will Signal Whether Aldermen Are Legislators or Lackeys
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 15, 2011
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New Report Shows a Reliable City Council for Daley
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