- News & Features, Politics, Dec 26, 2012
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The Reader's second annual awards for political "achievement"
Honoring some of the more notable deeds from our elected leaders in 2012
- 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, Jan 27, 2012
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Aldermanic rap sheet
A handy source cataloging city council corruption the last 30 years
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 27, 2012
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My mixed luck with aldermen
Chicago aldermen have ranged from the corrupt and the racist to the gallant mavericks
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 23, 2012
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Starting today on the Bleader: Alderman Week
This week's "Variations on a Theme": Alderman Week
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 18, 2012
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City Council concludes its approval of Emanuel's protest rules
City Council passes Emanuel's protest ordinances, but not everyone's pleased
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 17, 2012
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Aldermen examine new protest rules before doing what they're told
Somehow Mayor Emanuel gets his way again
- 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, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Dec 15, 2011
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All I want for Christmas is a City Council with a backbone
Mayor Emanuel already got his gift: a new set of rubber stamps
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 16, 2011
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New council, new mayor, new budget, same result
A new council, mayor, and budget does not mean new results.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 6, 2011
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New police chief sets out to show he's not the old police chief
- 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, Dec 6, 2010
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Free $40 Winter Weatherization Credit From Chicago Aldermen's Offices
Chicago aldermen's offices are offering $40 weatherization vouchers.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 6, 2010
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A Chicagocentric Mother's Day Gift Guide
Mother's Day gift ideas for Mom, available on CafePress and Zazzle.
- News & Features, Politics, Mar 18, 2010
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Who Wants to Be an Alderman?
In a showy nod to transparency, Mayor Daley called for applications to fill two midterm vacancies in the City Council. But the real selection process was as opaque as ever.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 30, 2009
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Rookie report cards
Why, exactly, we think the 2007 class of aldermen get a low midterm grade.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 23, 2009
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Stunt men
An alderman rips proposals to strengthen oversight of City Council--and it's not an old machine guy this time.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 11, 2009
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Upon further inspection
The debate (if you want to call it that) over the latest proposal to strengthen the role of the inspector general centers on whether the office should be allowed to investigate aldermen. But the effectiveness of the measure really hinges on a provision that would expand the office's budget and shield it from a politically inspired axe. The proposal from Joe Moore and his allies would do more than protect the office's budget--it would hike it dramatically. This year it would go up 50 percent, from $5.9 million to nearly $9 million.
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