- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, May 14, 2013
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The unfinished business of Richard M. Daley
Keith Koeneman's new biography, First Son, details Daley's accomplishments—but it barely sets foot in the city he reigned over.
- News & Features, Feature, May 8, 2013
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Addicted to guns
Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, May 7, 2013
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The school model that's good enough for President Obama and Mayor Emanuel
The prestigious University of Chicago Lab Schools respect and reward teachers—so why can't the public schools?
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Apr 2, 2013
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Mayor Emanuel's crowded-classroom approach to fixing schools
How the school "consolidation" plan could make teaching and learning even harder.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 29, 2013
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With check-writing friends like Mayor Emanuel's, who gives a f— about enemies?
Discontent with Mayor Rahm Emanuel may be rising, but he can still raise gazillions whenever he wants.
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Mar 26, 2013
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Before the schools, Mayor Emanuel closed the clinics
Advocates fight for patients a year after Rahm shuttered mental health clinics across the city.
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Mar 19, 2013
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The Emanuel administration kicks Persepolis out of class
Chicago Public Schools officials offer a lesson in confiscating books.
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Mar 12, 2013
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Charities drowning in city water fees
Mayor Emanuel sticks it to the poor to collect a few million bucks a year.
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 27, 2013
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An endangered piece of history beneath Lake Michigan's surface
The shipwreck of the Silver Spray has rested a stone's throw from the Hyde Park shoreline for nearly 100 years—but it may not be around for much longer.
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Feb 26, 2013
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Chicago's new BFF is a legislator from Waukegan
State representative Rita Mayfield isn't from the city, but who else is sticking up for its taxpayers?
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Jan 29, 2013
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Mayor Emanuel swears he's not interested in running for president
So of course he is.
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Jan 15, 2013
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With Jesse Jackson Jr. out of the way, who's left to take on the Man?
The former congressman leaves Chicago without independents.
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Jan 8, 2013
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Keeping up with the Jones high school plans
How Mayor Emanuel could turn Jones high into a neighborhood school—and win my almost undying support
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Dec 28, 2012
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NYSE sale to ICE different from CBT to CME
In the battle of the acronyms, New York fared better than Chicago
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Dec 12, 2012
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TIFs: the tax bill you have to pay but never see
The program intended to help the poorest of the poor largely benefits the well to do
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 30, 2012
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Here comes another city privatization deal forged behind closed doors
Chicago aldermen are poised to sign off on Rahm Emanuel's no-bid billboard plan
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Nov 21, 2012
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United generously returns TIF subsidy it was required to return anyway
Mayor Emanuel praises company's "corporate citizenship" after it fails to fulfill its TIF agreement with the city
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 14, 2012
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Mayor Emanuel ensures parking meters remain in private hands
A Cook County judge rules against a challenge to the parking meter deal
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 8, 2012
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Dread of what the oligarchs will try next
Lessons for Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers regarding Obama's reelection
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 26, 2012
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Superintendent McCarthy dismantles CAPS, will replace it with something at some point
Chicago police chief says we don't need more cops, just a new community policing policy to be determined later
