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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 24, 2012
Paul McGrath, RIP

Paul McGrath, a journalist brought into City Hall by Jane Byrne, has died
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Paul McGrath, Jane Byrne, Kelly McGrath, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago magazine, Karen Conner, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, Bill Granger, Lori Granger

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News & Features, Feature, Apr 25, 2012
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West Humboldt is one of America's biggest open-air drug markets. What does that mean for its residents?
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, Humboldt Park, gang violence, drug dealing, drug dealers, Chicago violence, community activism, shootings, murder, heroin, crack, Chicago Police Department, Jane Byrne, Harold Washington, overdose, abandoned homes, Audio

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 1, 2011
Rahm's secret snow job

Everyone talks about the weather. Chicago's mayor is doing something about it.
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Flotsam and Jetsam, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago, snow, meteorology, AccuWeather.com, Josh Nagelberg, Tom Skilling, WGN-TV, La Nina, Rogers Park, Hegewisch, Richard J. Daley, Michael Bilandic, Jane Byrne, Harold Washington, Richard M. Daley, Chicago city council, Chicago budget, Chicago aldermen, el stops, streets and sanitation, workman's comp, slip and falls, triathalons, lumbago, tourism, city hall, snow removal, O'Hare, Midway, Strategic Defense Initiative, Reagan administration, sharpshooters, automatic weapons, Evanston, Lincolnwood, Elmwood Park, Oak Park, Cicero, Stickney, Oak Lawn, Evergreen Park, Riverdale, Burnham, cicadas

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News & Features, Politics, Feb 24, 2011
Carving Time Approaches

What if instead of gerrymandering wards we moved to a grid system?
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Chicago politics, City Council, wards, grid system, Jane Byrne, Alderman Thomas Keane, census, Alderman Joseph Bertrand, Alderman Richard Mell, Alderman Bernard Stone

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News & Features, Politics, Jan 13, 2011
The Hidden Hands

In every successful campaign—and every dud—pros are masterminding and organizing from offstage. Meet the people behind six mayoral candidates.
- by Steve Bogira, Lauri Apple, Ben Joravsky, Sam Worley, John Santore, and Whet Moser
- Tags: Politics, Harold Washington, Jane Byrne, David Axelrod, Miguel del Valle, Bruce Embrey, Scott Fairchild, Rahm Emanuel, Terrie Pickerill, Gery Chico, Anita Dunn, Mike Noonan, Carol Moseley Braun, Ken Snyder, Anita Alvarez, Bryan Zises, James Meeks, Danny Davis, Jason Perkey, Chicago mayoral election, political consultants, Chicago political consultants

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News & Features, Politics, Dec 9, 2010
The Real Residency Issue

Can a north-sider be mayor?
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago residency, north side, south side, Chicago mayors, Lakeview, Jane Byrne, Michael Bilandic, Wallace Johnson, Martin Kennelly, Anton Cermak, Harold Washington, Edward Kelly, Shakman decree, David Orr

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News & Features, Politics, Sep 16, 2010
Me and My Mayor

Reflections on the end of an error.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Richard M. Daley, Ben Joravsky, Michael Scott, Block 37, United Neighborhood Organization, UNO, Millennium Park, International Olympic Committee, Chicago Olympics, IOC, TIF, tax increment financing, Harold Washington, Jane Byrne, South Shore, Chicago budget crisis, Chicago budget hearings, Michael Bailey, Tom Tunney, O'Hare express train

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 14, 2010
Why Not a She-Mayor?

Any of you ladies need a job?
- by Lauri Apple
- Tags: Chicagoland, Politics, Clout City, Carol Moseley Braun, mayoral race, women in politics, Rahm Emanuel, Carol Felsenthal, Rod Blagojevich, Lisa Madigan, Sandi Jackson, Rebecca Sive, Jane Byrne, Valerie Jarrett, Tom Dart, Jesse Jackson Jr., Mary Mitchell

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News & Features, Politics, Mar 11, 2010
Taking the New Yorker for a Ride

The Chicago in Evan Osnos's story is the Chicago you'd see out the window of the mayor's limo.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Mayor Daley, Richard M. Daley, New Yorker, Evan Osnos, Hired Truck scandal, City Hall, Barack Obama, A.J. Liebling, Harold Washington, Jane Byrne, Eugene Sawyer, Beirut on the lake, William Bennett, Milan of the Midwest, Billy Dec, Frankie Knuckles, the Warehouse, Michael Bilandic, concert promoter licensing, public transportation, CTA

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News & Features, Politics, Mar 4, 2010
Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: An Island in the Swamp

For decades now, most of Chicago's political independents have emerged from Hyde Park and Kenwood.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Chicago politics, Hyde Park, Hyde Park politics, Kenwood, University of Chicago, Paul Douglas, Robert Merriam, Don Rose, Leon Despres, Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization, IVI-IPO, Mayor Daley, 2016 Olympics, Michael Bilandic, Jane Byrne, Martin Luther King Jr., David Axelrod, Al Raby, Marshall Patner, John McDermott, Chicago Reporter, Richard Newhouse, Billy Singer, Carol Moseley Braun, Toni Preckwinkle, Fourth Ward, 4th Ward, Silent Six, Claude Holman, Marshall Korshak, Michael Shakman, Sidney Korshak, Larry Bloom, Operation Silver Shovel, Bernie Epton, President Obama, Barack Obama, Kwame Raoul, Will Burns, Leslie Hairston, 5th Ward, Fifth Ward

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News & Features, Politics, Nov 26, 2009
The Insider

Remembering the unflappable Michael Scott
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Michael Scott, John McDermott, Harold Washington, Jane Byrne, Richard M. Daley, Dion Scott, Collins High School, Ed Smith, Bernie Epton, Office of Special Events, Alderman Bill Henry, Eugene Sawyer, Chicago Park District, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, Regional Transportation Authority, RTA, Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, McPier, Navy Pier, McCormick Place, Pat Hill, Arne Duncan, Rickey Hendon, Danny Davis, Edna's, Grady Jordan

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 27, 2009
Surviving the 60s
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Politics, Clout City, Ted Kennedy, Jane Byrne, J. Anthony Lukas, Garry Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment, Michael Kelly

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 15, 2007
Will Mayor Daley become a defendant in a police torture lawsuit?

Darrell Cannon, who claims he was tortured by Area Two police under Jon Burge, seeks to add Mayor Daley and former mayor Jane Byrne as defendants in his torture suit.
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: News, News Bites, Chicago Reader, Mayor Richard M. Daley, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Police Torture, John Conroy, Jon Burge, Darrell Cannon, Jane Byrne

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News & Features, Feature, Mar 19, 1992
Everybody's Mayor

The media pundits believed that Council Wars was the fight of Harold Washington's political life. But a truer test of his skill was the balancing act he had to perform to keep his diverse coalition together--to ensure that each of its disparate elements s
- by Gary Rivlin
- Tags: Feature, Harold Washington, Jane Byrne, Ed Vrdolyak

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News & Features, Feature, Apr 8, 1983
Guide for the Perplexed
- by David Moberg
- Tags: Feature, elections, Jane Byrne, Richard M. Daley, Harold Washington, Bernard Epton

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The former congressman leaves Chicago without independents.

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Lessons for Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers regarding Obama's reelection

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Rahm's desegregation plan

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Paul McGrath, a journalist brought into City Hall by Jane Byrne, has died

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West Humboldt is one of America's biggest open-air drug markets. What does that mean for its residents?

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Everyone talks about the weather. Chicago's mayor is doing something about it.

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What if instead of gerrymandering wards we moved to a grid system?

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In every successful campaign—and every dud—pros are masterminding and organizing from offstage. Meet the people behind six mayoral candidates.

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Can a north-sider be mayor?

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Reflections on the end of an error.

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Any of you ladies need a job?

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The Chicago in Evan Osnos's story is the Chicago you'd see out the window of the mayor's limo.

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For decades now, most of Chicago's political independents have emerged from Hyde Park and Kenwood.

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Remembering the unflappable Michael Scott

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Darrell Cannon, who claims he was tortured by Area Two police under Jon Burge, seeks to add Mayor Daley and former mayor Jane Byrne as defendants in his torture suit.

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The media pundits believed that Council Wars was the fight of Harold Washington's political life. But a truer test of his skill was the balancing act he had to perform to keep his diverse coalition together--to ensure that each of its disparate elements s

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