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- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Nov 18, 2020
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Real Chicago
The scariest thing about our city is how our political system works.
- Music, Music Feature Jun 23, 2020
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Chicago punk was born queer
How three gay bars—La Mere Vipere, O’Banion’s, and Oz—became the cradle of the city’s punk scene
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 10, 2020
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From soldier to worker
Police unions were born of resistance to discipline for brutality. Do they belong in the labor movement?
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Mar 11, 2019
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The ruling 35 percent
The vast majority of Chicago voters sit out another mayoral election.
- Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Dec 17, 2018
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Streets and San does a great job of clearing the roads—thanks to Chicago-style politics
A look at how exactly the city manages to clear the major streets so efficiently after a major snow event
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2016
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White Sox and Cubs are both 2-0 for first time since 1951
Martin Kennelly was mayor the last time both clubs won their first pair in the same season, 65 years ago.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2015
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Weekend shootings and recent homicide stats give Garcia an issue to exploit
Garcia continues Chicago's political tradition of blaming the city's crime rate on the incumbent.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 31, 2015
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The mayoral race and the color of inequality in Chicago
If the city's white unemployment rate were nearly triple the black rate, would the Tribune say fiscal policy was the only issue that mattered?
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 25, 2015
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The mayoral runoff is going to be a shitstorm
Having embarrassed Rahm in yesterday's election, Chicago's voters can expect the mayor to go negative and nasty against Chuy Garcia in the coming campaign.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 6, 2015
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How many Chicago mayors have graduated from a Chicago public high school?
Our mayors' experience with CPS has rarely been firsthand.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 2, 2014
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Another taste of how Chicago was when Jane Byrne ran things
A 1980 article makes us wonder: "What was that all about?"
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 20, 2014
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That time in '77 Jane Byrne and I were on TV together
As a young, mop-topped lad of 22, the Reader political columnist was on WTTW . . .
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 15, 2014
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Is Bruce Rauner the new Jane Byrne?
History could repeat itself at the state level.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 17, 2014
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Running against Rahm means running for the mayoral runoff
In the mayoral election, Bob, Karen, Bob, Amara, and everyone else needs to push Rahm into a runoff.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jul 22, 2014
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Political veteran Robert Shaw sees no reason why he can't become mayor
Reintroducing the former alderman who wants to challenge Rahm
- News & Politics, Politics Jul 2, 2014
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Does Rahm Emanuel have a challenger who can win?
What Toni Preckwinkle, Karen Lewis, and Robert Fioretti need to do
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Apr 22, 2014
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County clerk David Orr's reform talk annoys another mayor
The clerk proposes a TIF fix.
- News & Politics, Feature Aug 21, 2013
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Fifty years later, participants in the March on Washington still hoping for justice
Organizers of the Chicago contingent in the 1963 March on Washington say it's time for another movement.
- Arts & Culture, 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.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Apr 9, 2013
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The lessons of Jane Byrne
Even in Chicago, an unknown on a kamikaze mission can end up winning the mayor's office.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 29, 2013
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Easter in Cabrini: Jane Byrne's 1981 PR disaster
Video of protests against Mayor Jane Byrne during Cabrini-Green's 1981 Easter celebration
- Columns & Opinion, 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.
- 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 11, 2012
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Should Emanuel move to Englewood?
Rahm's desegregation plan
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2012
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Paul McGrath, RIP
Paul McGrath, a journalist brought into City Hall by Jane Byrne, has died