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Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jan 20, 2021
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Tim Samuelson may be retiring, but he's not history yet

Chicago's first and only cultural historian goes on emeritus status, but there's plenty of work ahead of him.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Tim Samuelson, Geoffrey Baer, Lori Lightfoot, Chicago Cultural Center, Richard Nickel, John Vinci, Commission on Chicago Landmarks, Chicago Historical Society, Barbara Koenen, Mike Lash, Department of Cultural Affairs, Lois Weisberg, Mana Contemporary, Chris Ware, Video

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jan 6, 2021
Lori and her lawyers

Mayor Lightfoot hires an investigator to tell her what she already knows about the Anjanette Young raid.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Lori Lightfoot, Anjanette Young, Rahm Emanuel, Laquan McDonald, Michael Madigan, Donald Trump, CPS, COVID-19, Mark Flessner, Garry McCarthy, Dave Savini, Ann Claire Williams, Jones Day, The Nation, Elie Mystal

News & Politics, Feature Dec 21, 2020
A year like no other

On the violence, sadness, and hope of 2020
- By Maya Dukmasova, Karen Hawkins, Adam M. Rhodes, Brianna Wellen, Salem Collo-Julin, Leor Galil, Taryn Allen, and Sujay Kumar
- Tags: Feature, Year in Review 2020, eviction, protest, anti-trans violence, police, therapy, lori lightfoot, death, coronavirus, pandemic, election 2020

News & Politics, News Dec 17, 2020
The COVID-canceled sports league that still made the streets unsafe

Members of the Chicago Police Enforcers football team have been involved in more than 200 incidents where they’ve injured civilians through use of force.
- By Adam Mahoney
- Tags: News, Chicago Police Enforcers, CPD, Robert Slechter, Laquan McDonald, Roshad McIntosh, National Public Safety Football League, Cynthia Lane, Lori Lightfoot, Anthony Napolitano, Nick Sposato, kihana miraya ross, COVID-19, coronavirus

News & Politics, News Dec 17, 2020
Librarians sound alarms about pandemic protocols

Do the CPL pandemic guidelines really help staff and patrons?
- By Elisa Shoenberger
- Tags: News, Chicago Public Library, COVID-19, Patrick Molloy, Katie Suleta, Anders Lindall, Lori Lightfoot, Mary Ellen Messner

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Dec 9, 2020
To trust or not to trust . . .

Teachers, parents, and students have to decide if CPS can keep COVID-19 out of the classroom.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Lori Lightfoot, Janice Jackson, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, COVID-19, coronavirus, Rahm Emanuel, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, TIF, Chicago Teachers Union

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Dec 2, 2020
Some things never change

Aldermen can vote to fire city workers but they better not vote against a TIF.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Lori Lightfoot, Harry Osterman, Tom Tunney, Brendan Reilly, Anthony Napolitano, Chicago City Council, Danny Solis, Ray Suarez, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, TIF, tax increment financing, Lincoln Yards, Matt O’Shea

News & Politics, Feature Nov 18, 2020
Lightfoot turns city’s infrastructure into weapons against protesters

When election and racial justice protests rocked Chicago, the mayor used raised bridges and shut down public transportation as crowd control measures, which harmed the city’s workers.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, policing, black lives matter, chicago police, protests, lori lightfoot, public transit, racial justice

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Nov 18, 2020
Real Chicago

The scariest thing about our city is how our political system works.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Richard M. Daley, Richard J. Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Steve James, City So Real, Kartemquin Films, Lori Lightfoot, Rickey Hendon, Harold Washington, Jane Byrne

Music, Music Review Oct 24, 2020
Recommended
Chicago art-pop wonder Sen Morimoto captures the magic of his community
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Review, Sen Morimoto, Audiotree, Sooper Records, Chicago DCASE, Lori Lightfoot, Millennium Park, Joseph Chilliams, Kaina, Nnamdï, Lala Lala, Lillie West, Qari, Kara Jackson, Recommended

News & Politics, News Oct 16, 2020
Queer folks of color want to cancel today’s Buttigieg-Lightfoot book event

Activists say the pair's public conversation about “trust and distrust” shows the problems with assuming marginalized people have progressive values.
- By Adam M. Rhodes
- Tags: News, Lori Lightfoot, Pete Buttigieg, Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago Police Department, Civilian Office of Police Accountability, Office of Professional Standards, LaSaia Wade, Brave Space Alliance, Dimitri Nesbitt Pérez

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Sep 9, 2020
Savior stories

Let’s end the myth that Mayors Daley and Rahm saved Chicago Public Schools.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Richard M. Daley, Lori Lightfoot, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, William Bennett, Ronald Reagan, social promotion, Donald Trump, Kenwood High School, Rummana Hussain

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Aug 11, 2020
Unwelcome news

The unfairness in Chicago’s TIF program continues.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Lori Lightfoot, Richard Daley, Rahm Emanuel, David Brown, Chris Taliaferro, Brian Hopkins, tax increment financing, TIFs, Langston Hughes, Lincoln Yards, the 78, Karen Yarbrough, looting

Music, Music Feature Jul 31, 2020
Lightfoot hijacks Lollapalooza

A week after DCASE forbid Sen Morimoto from criticizing the mayor’s response to BLM protests, she’s all over the city’s biggest music festival.
- By Jessi Roti
- Tags: Music Feature, Lollapalooza, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Lori Lightfoot, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, DCASE, Millennium Park at Home, Sen Morimoto, Tasha, Kaina, Kaina Castillo, Sooper Records, Perry Farrell, LL Cool J, City of Chicago, Boards of Change, Black Lives Matter, CPAC, Civilian Police Accountability Council, Jamila Woods, Peter Cottontale, the Era, the Era Footwork Crew, Heavy Steppers, Jamal Smallz, Emon Fowler, Rebirth Poetry Ensemble, Linda Sol, Thalia Hall, the Promontory, Year of Chicago Music, Arts for Illinois Relief Fund, Equal Justice Initiative, When We All Vote, Michelle Obama, Bryan Stevenson, Chuck D, Public Enemy, Mark Kelly, Next to the Sun, Pivot Gang, Femdot, Ric Wilson, Ohmme, Dehd, Black Lives Matter Chicago, Chi-Nations Youth Council

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jul 28, 2020
Yoho and Cotton

As always, free speech is a one-way street for the Trump crowd.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Donald Trump, free speech, Lori Lightfoot, Tucker Carlson, John Kass, Kim Foxx, George Soros, John Catanzara, Fraternal Order of Police, Colin Kaepernick, Tom Cotton, Ted Yoho, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

News & Politics, Feature Jul 21, 2020
Chicago won’t pay ‘hush money’ to prevent police misconduct records release—for now

A City Council vote on Charles Green’s lawsuit settlement was postponed.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, Charles Green, police misconduct, transparency, Cook County Judge Alison Conlon, Jared Kosoglad, Jamie Kalven, Invisible Institute, Citizens Police Data Project, Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, Fraternal Order of Police, police union, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, FOIA lawsuit, Derrick House, John Summerville, police violence, City Council, City Council FInance Committee, Scott Waguespack, Maria Hadden, Renai Rodney, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Lori Lightfoot

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jul 14, 2020
The inequity buster

If Mayor Lightfoot and Sam Skinner want to help the west and south sides, they should look to the TIFs.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Lori Lightfoot, Sam Skinner, Greenberg Traurig, George H.W. Bush, TIF, tax increment financing, LaSalle/Central TIF, United Airlines, Forward Together, Englewood, Roseland, Austin

Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Jul 8, 2020
The Simplified, Citywide Mellow Chicago Bike Map

A newly expanded guide to chill cycling routes in the city and beyond
- By John Greenfield
- Tags: On Transportation, Mellow Chicago Bike Map, bikes, cycling, bicycle, Slow Streets, Lori Lightfoot, The 606, COVID-19, coronavirus, CTA, bike map

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jun 30, 2020
Cops in schools

For years the schools of Chicago have been pawns in the mayor’s budget games.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Lori Lightfoot, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Board of Education, Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Amy Rome, Luisiana Melendez, TIFs, George Floyd, Laquan McDonald, Black Lives Matter

News & Politics, Feature Jun 24, 2020
Activists say mayor’s police reform promises ring hollow

Lori Lightfoot has hampered the process of installing a police oversight council, activists say, despite making it a major part of her public safety platform during her mayoral run.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, policing, chicago, community policing, lori lightfoot, police accountability, police reform

News & Politics, Feature Jun 23, 2020
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Cops appear to violate use-of-force rules dozens of times at protests

An investigation into the use of batons raises questions about the police department’s road to reform.
- By Andrew Fan and Dana Brozost-Kelleher
- Tags: Feature, police, use of force, lori lightfoot, protest, baton, deadly force, video, black lives matter, Video

News & Politics, News Jun 1, 2020
Police abolitionists find fuel in the protests

As more people lose faith in the state, organizers offer alternatives.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Chicago Police Department, CPD, police violence, protests, George Floyd protests, police abolition, abolition, prison and police abolition, abolitionist organizing, Chicago police abolitionists, mutual aid, George Floyd, Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Mariame Kaba, Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter Chicago, Ariel Atkins, Good Kids Mad City, Kofi Ademola, Equity and Transformation, Richard Wallace, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Lori Lightfoot, police riot, Chicago Freedom School, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Chicago Public Schools, Assata’s Daughters, Page May

News & Politics, News May 27, 2020
Lightfoot’s surprise tenant protection measure ruffles feathers

Progressive aldermen and landlord lobby balk at “fair notice” ordinance
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Tenants, landlords, eviction, just cause eviction, fair notice, rent control, affordable housing, Housing Justice League, Lori Lightfoot, eviction, Byron Sigcho-Lopez, Department of Housing, Mike Saelens, Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance

News & Politics, Politics May 22, 2020
Aldermen power through Lightfoot's emergency moves

When it comes to pandemic planning, is the mayor responsive and collaborative, or dismissive and combative? It depends on whom you ask.
- By Dave Glowacz
- Tags: Politics, COVID-19, coronavirus, Mayor Lightfoot, Lori Lightfoot, David Moore, Auburn-Gresham, Jason Ervin, Emma Mitts, Byron Sigcho-Lopez, Brendan Reilly, Scott Waguespack, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, Pat Dowell

Columns & Opinion, On Politics May 12, 2020
Bob Dylan’s ode to Chicago

The new Michael Reese TIF plan tries to undo the damage of the old one.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Mayor Lightfoot, Rahm Emanuel, Mayor Rahm, Mayor Daley, Lori Lightfoot, Michael Reese Hospital, TIF, tax increment financing, Maurice Cox, Sterling Bay, The Hideout, Lincoln Yards, Medline, 2016 Olympics, Bob Dylan

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