- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 10, 2013
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A greener Chicago would be a safer Chicago
Urban farming and better care of vacant lots could reduce crime and improve life in poorer areas
- News & Features, Politics, Nov 7, 2012
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He's got this
Reports from across Chicago as the votes for President Obama came rolling in
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 6, 2012
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The Reader did election night
Check out the Reader's coverage of Chicago, from Second City to a homeless shelter to President Obama's election party, as it happened.
- News & Features, Politics, Oct 25, 2012
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Still hoping for change
Four years later, five Chicagoans reflect on the president they helped elect
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 23, 2012
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South-side residents fend off pawnshop plan
In the face of community opposition, plans are withdrawn for a pawnshop at 79th and Western
- 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
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 12, 2012
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Good news: poverty not worse
The U.S. poverty rate remains high, but it didn't rise in 2011
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 12, 2012
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Loss in The Crowd
Questioning the moral foundation of King Vidor's silent classic
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 11, 2012
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Census stats likely to show highest poverty rate since 1965
When will the presidential candidates notice?
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 6, 2012
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Obama's acceptance speech
How much could Obama talk about poverty without risking his reelection?
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 5, 2012
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Is poverty among Obama's priorities?
Presidents choose which crises to respond to. For more than 40 years now, poverty hasn't made the cut
- 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
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 21, 2012
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Obama's (former) vow to attack poverty
Back when the president was just a candidate, poverty was on his agenda
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature, Aug 16, 2012
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Chicken of the trees
The rural eastern gray squirrel has long been a valued food source, but what about its urban cousin?
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 1, 2012
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The deeper drug war
There's a more cynical problem than the war on drugs
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 25, 2012
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Shorty's comeback
Kelvin Wallace has been given one more chance to prevail over the heroin addiction he's struggled with for decades. "A whole lot is riding on me getting this right."
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Jul 18, 2012
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Luis Alfaro's American tragedy
Victory Gardens's Chicano-inflected Oedipus el Rey
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 6, 2012
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I'll tune in when I'm done zoning out
When it comes to politics, I'm virtually as active as the next person
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 15, 2012
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Obama's deafening silence on poverty
The president knows how to avoid a subject
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 14, 2012
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The presidency: take this job and love it
If Obama's so smart, why does he want four more years?
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