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- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Oct 27, 2020
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Shame, shame, shame
Blago, Donnie, Phyllis the anti-Fair Tax spokeswoman, and other shameful absurdities
- City Life, Stay at Home May 16, 2020
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 57 and 58
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Oct 2, 2019
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Busted priorities
Even with a teachers’ strike looming, the city is investing in the wrong things.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Mar 4, 2019
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Happy returns
The Ben Joravsky Show returns, streaming live Tuesday through Friday on the websites of the Reader and the Chicago Sun-Times.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Feb 11, 2019
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The many lives of Alderman Danny Solis
Solis swapped his loyalty to Daley and Rahm for sex, Viagra, and the council’s zoning chair.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 14, 2018
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Chicago corruption for sightseers: Walking tours show seedy underbelly of the city’s politics
"I lure them in with promises of wacky Blagojevich stories, and leave them with civics," journalist Paul Dailing muses.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 30, 2018
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Stormy’s Chicago show to feature Rahm on stage—kinda
A guy in a Rahm mask will be cavorting with Stormy Daniels when she brings her "Make America Horny Again" tour to Chicago in June.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 30, 2018
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Can Captain Kirk deliver Amazon to Chicago? Please, no
William Shatner's enthusiam for the Amazon deal shows that the farther you are from having to pay for the Amazon deal, the more likely you are to support it.
- Music, Worst of Chicago Dec 21, 2017
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What Chicago media gets wrong about Chance, Keef, and the local hip-hop scene
Critics who fall back on shallow tropes and ignorant cliches deny us an enriching understanding of the musical cultures in our own backyard.
- News & Politics, Politics Dec 13, 2017
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The new public face of Rahm Emanuel’s school closing policies
The mayor brings in a new CPS CEO, Janice Jackson, just in time to shutter more schools.
- Music, In Rotation Jul 25, 2017
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Karissa Talanian of Eye Vybe Records on a new online mecca for Chicago underground music
Plus: Singer-songwriter Drea Smith on her Bad Brains time machine, the Reader’s Kevin Warwick on the wild card from this year’s Pitchfork, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 7, 2017
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Mike Quigley: Russians hacked the Illinois State Board of Elections’ voter database, and other Chicago news
Also, 30 percent of local Michelin-starred restaurants have closed.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 29, 2017
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Why Chicago’s once-promising food truck scene stalled out
As food trucks have flourished in other U.S. cities, the mobile food industry in Chicago has been systematically immobilized by legislative opposition, onerous red tape, costly fines, and the pro-restaurant lobby.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 1, 2017
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Some advice for Chance the Rapper when he meets with Governor Rauner
Don't fall for Rauner's BS, Chance.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 3, 2016
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Porchlight’s whitewashing of In the Heights narrator is a letdown for Latinx community
The Hemosa-based musical theater company could have told a powerful story of Latinxs in America. Instead they cast a white actor as the storyteller.
- Blogs, Bleader May 17, 2016
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The legacy of Mayor Harold Washington
In many ways, Chicago’s political climate has changed little since the death of the political visionary.
- Blogs, Bleader May 3, 2016
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A visual history of the black vote
In this election year, we look back at the history of black voter mobilization in Chicago and in the south.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2016
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Listen to a trap remix of Eddie Acevedo Jr.'s profanity-laced voice-mail message to Alderman Danny Solis
Set to music, the obscene message is even more menacing—and humorous.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2016
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On the list of obscenity-laced rants by Chicago personalities, this voice-mail message to Alderman Danny Solis ranks high
Deciphering Eddie Acevedo Jr.'s late-night motherbleepin' phone call to the 25th Ward alderman.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 22, 2016
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Hey, Governor Rauner—open the books!
As long as Rauner wants Rahm to open up the CPS books, Rauner should have to open the state's books to Rahm's bean counters.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 27, 2015
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Rahm could've been the hero in the McDonald shooting
By doing the immoral and politically stupid thing instead, Emanuel is a bum.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 19, 2015
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A glimmer of hope as Mayor Rahm and DePaul celebrate wasting our money
Mayor Rahm basks in the glow of his great TIF triumph—taking millions from bankrupt schools and wasting it on his DePaul/Marriott boondoggle.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 16, 2015
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Author Dave Hoekstra on being a white writer trying to document the black experience
For his new book The People's Place, the former Sun-Times staffer and Reader contributor combined soul food and civil rights.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 17, 2015
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Dumke beats mayor's lawyers in cop spying case
After months of requests and an order from the state, Mayor Emanuel's police department finally coughs up a few details about its undercover police spy investigations of ordinary citizens.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 31, 2015
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State reps Guzzardi & Reaves-Harris talk the budget at the Hideout!
State reps Will Guzzardi and Pamela Reaves-Harris will join Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky to try to make sense of the state's budget madness at the First Tuesdays show at the Hideout tomorrow at 6:30 PM.
