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- Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2018
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Rauner and Pritzker tout government transparency while blocking access to records
Will Illinois's candidates for governor ever practice what they preach?
- Film, Movie Review May 3, 2017
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Up close—maybe too close—with Julian Assange
Laura Poitras, who recorded the Edward Snowden leak in Citizenfour, returns with her latest documentary, Risk.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 23, 2016
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Rahm Emanuel releases several years’ worth of e-mails, and other Chicago news
Also, outgoing Republican senator Mark Kirk laments the lost of the moderate establishment in the age of Trump.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 27, 2014
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The politics behind Chicago's garbage bins
The City Council passed a new fee on Dumpsters—without knowing who's going to pay, who's going to profit, and whose idea it was.
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 28, 2012
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The mayor's millionaire club, part II
A look at Rahm Emanuel's calendar shows how wealth and access, far more than party identity or ideology, have come to comand the attention of politicians—leaving everyday people out of the conversation
- News & Politics, Politics Apr 11, 2012
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The trust fund mayor
Rahm Emanuel has big plans for rebuilding Chicago's infrastructure. Wish we knew what they were.
- Blogs, Bleader May 13, 2009
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Aldermen: mad as hell and not going to take it anymore (without bitching a little first)
More and more aldermen say they're frustrated with the way the Daley administration does business. Some even think somebody should do something about it. Meanwhile, the Dumpster tax has passed.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 23, 2009
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Dumpster tax dumped again
The failed Dumpster tax: how poor planning may have added to the city's growing budget deficit.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 19, 2009
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Money for the taking
The city explains--in a manner of speaking--why it has so little evidence that it monitored its $10 million TIF deal with Republic Windows and Doors.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 17, 2009
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TIFs: Hidden in plain view
The City Council can approve a 99-year privatization deal in days, but it needs months to decide whether to put public records online.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2009
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The City Council, for no apparent reason, puts TIF transparency on hold
A proposal to make tax increment financing deals more transparent receives broad support and no opposition in a City Council hearing--then gets tabled anyway.