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News & Politics, Feature Dec 21, 2020
For undocumented immigrants, the work doesn’t stop at the election

From voter outreach to working for their communities, undocumented immigrants across the Chicago area don’t let their immigration status get in the way of participating politically.
- By Paco Alvarez and City Bureau
- Tags: Feature, Immigration, election 2020, DACA, suburbs, undocumented, politics

Film, Movie Review Nov 4, 2020
Recommended
City Hall highlights public servants actually serving the public

Frederick Wiseman’s documentary offers a hopeful look at political institutions.
- By Kathleen Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, City Hall, Frederick Wiseman, politics, Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Recommended

News & Politics, News Jun 20, 2019
Nobody’s business

The push to make all single-stall public restrooms in Illinois gender-neutral
- By Nico Lang
- Tags: News, trans, politics, pritzker, nonbinary

Columns & Opinion, Opinion May 23, 2019
Why we can’t abandon Kim Foxx

Reformers across the nation are learning to be afraid.
- By Jane M. Saks and Emma Ruby-Sachs
- Tags: Opinion, Kim Fox, politics, reform, criminal justice, gun control

Film, Movie Review May 1, 2019
Video
Can the two crazy kids in Long Shot work out their differences and find happiness?

In the world of the perfectly adequate (though exceptionally well-lit) rom-com, everything is possible.
- By Leah Pickett
- Tags: Movie Review, Long Shot, Jonathan Levine, Seth Rogen, Charlize Theron, rom-com, romantic comedy, politics, Wesley Morris, Blondie, Roxette, Robyn, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Dan Sterling, Liz Hannah, Video

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Apr 11, 2019
A new deal

Lori Lightfoot can negotiate a better agreement at Lincoln Yards and 78.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Politics, Lori Lightfoot, Rahm Emanuel, TIF, Lincoln Yards, 78, Burt Natarus, Brian Hopkins

News & Politics, Politics Apr 1, 2019
The road to victory

A timeline of historic moments in LGBTQ elected history in the Chicago area.
- By Reader staff and Windy City Times
- Tags: Politics, LGBTQ, Chicago's LGBTQ history, politics, Windy City Times

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Mar 29, 2019
Lori and Toni were missing in action

Lightfoot and Preckwinkle claim to be progressives but they stayed away from the front lines during the great fights of the Rahm years.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Politics, on politics, toni preckwinkle, lori lightfoot, rahm emanuel, mayor rahm, jordan peele

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Mar 22, 2019
Mayor Rahm rewrites history

Tall tales about Lincoln Yards and CPS are part of Rahm’s attempt to make us forget Mayor 1 Percent.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Politics, Rahm, TIFs, CPS, the atlantic, Lincoln yards

News & Politics, Politics Feb 22, 2019
Fourteen candidates?!

The Reader's mayoral cheat sheet is here to help.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Politics, Politics, Bill Daley, Jerry Joyce, Gary McCarthy, Susana Mendoza, Paul Vallas, Willie Wilson, Lori Lightfoot, Amara Enyia, 2019 mayoral campaign, Chicago Mayoral Election, Bob Fioretti

News & Politics, Feature Feb 18, 2019
Archive Dive: The 2004 Senate primary was the reality show of the year

A look back at a crowded race full of candidates who didn't come to make friends.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Feature, Archive Dive, reality show, U.S. Senate Race, Barack Obama, Gery Chico, Blair Hull, Norm Hill, senator, politics

News & Politics, Politics Feb 14, 2019
Another Mayor Daley?

In a race marked by strong women of color, Chicago may be poised to elect the machine-backed legacy white candidate.
- By Nate Marshall
- Tags: Politics, Politics, Bill Daley, Daley, Mayoral election, Rahm Emanuel

News & Politics, Politics Feb 4, 2019
Can Toni Preckwinkle distance herself from the machine?

She's tried to position herself as a progressive outsider but still has a reputation as the "Boss."
- By Samantha Smylie
- Tags: Politics, politics, toni preckwinkle, chicago, mayor, election, ed burke

News & Politics, Politics Jan 17, 2019
Is Lori Lightfoot really the progressive candidate?

Does the reform candidate stand a chance in post-Rahm Chicago?
- By Curtis Black
- Tags: Politics, Lori Lightfoot, Politics, Chicago, mayor, progressive, election

News & Politics, Politics Dec 13, 2018
Overlooked mayoral hopefuls share bold visions for Chicago

They may have little name recognition and no campaign funds, but the regular people running for mayor are committed to making the city thrive.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Politics, Mayoral elections, elections, politics, Democratic machine, machine politics, Catherine Brown D’Tycoon, Conrien Hykes Clark, Roger L. Washington, Richard Mayers, Sandra L. Mallory, John Kozlar, Action Now, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, CPAC, Ja’mal Green, La Shawn Ford, Willie Wilson, Toni Preckwinkle, Garry McCarthy, Amara Enyia, police brutality, police violence, police accountability, Chicago Police Department, CPD, homelessness, affordable housing, predatory lending, contract sales, contract-for-deed sales, Garrett Morgan Elementary School, Auburn Gresham, West Englewood, North Lawndale, Roseland, Bridgeport, Rahm Emanuel, Michelle Morsi Murphy, school closures, Haines Elementary School, Chinatown, transportation, bankruptcy, city tickets

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 21, 2018
Ike Holter’s Chicago Cycle rolls on with Rightlynd

In this installment, a young alderwoman learns that doing good is much harder than promising to do good.
- By Catey Sullivan
- Tags: Theater Review, Rightlynd, Ike Holter, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago Cycle, Lisa Portes, politics, Monica Orozco, Jerome Beck, LaKecia Harris, elections, ward politics

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Nov 16, 2018
Joravsky's advice for the Republican Party

And some for progressives, too.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Republicans, politics, election, Illinois, Michael Madigan, Bruce Rauner, Lauren Underwood, Trump, Peter Breen, Jeanne Ives, HB 40, Terra Costa Howard, DuPage County, Ron Sandack, Anne Stava-Murray, Elizabeth Chaplin, J.B. Pritzker, Sean Casten, John Cullerton

News & Politics, Politics Nov 1, 2018
Efforts to turn Cook County Jail into a polling location persist following governor’s veto

A legislative effort to allow Illinois inmates to exercise their right to vote continues despite Governor Rauner's veto of the bill.
- By Julia Hale
- Tags: Politics, Politics, News, politics, news, voting, bill, election, Cook County, jail, Chicago Votes, Shriver, ACLU, Illinois

Blogs, Bleader Oct 10, 2018
Making All Black Lives Matter: Barbara Ransby talks politics and protesting in 2018

At a book talk Tuesday at the SEIU Healthcare headquarters in Pilsen, Barbara Ransby discussed her book Making All Black Lives Matter.
- By Julia Hale
- Tags: Books, Politics, News, books, politics, history, movement, organizing, protesting, feminism, womanism, black feminism, Ferguson, Women's March Chicago, March to the Polls, #LetUsBreatheCollective, #BlackSexMatters, SEIU, R3, Black Lives Matter, #BlackLivesMatter

Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2018
Landlords for rent control? You heard that right

Little Village property owners are seeing benefits in a new proposed state senate bill.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Housing, News, Politics, Rent control, Rent Control Preemption Act, Will Guzzardi, Mattie Hunter, eviction, gentrification, Little Village, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Realtors, Simone Alexander, Alex Velazquez, Little Village Community Development Committee, Lift the Ban Coalition, price controls, Chicagoland Apartment Association

Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2018
Indivisible Chicago’s Blue Wave Rave uses improv to mobilize political action

"Improv actors are like the best canvassers ever!"
- By Julia Hale
- Tags: Politics, Theater, Comedy, Arts, politics, theater, improv, comedy, arts, culture, Second City, Annoyance Theatre, iO, Indivisible Chicago, canvassing

Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2018
Chicago Votes launches Give a Shit Weekend to get young people in Chicago excited about election season

The nonprofit organization is using art and culture to get young people in the city excited about voting in a world where politics are "pretty boring, pretty old, and pretty white."
- By Julia Hale
- Tags: Arts, Politics, News, Chicago Votes, fashion, art, music, politics, voting, local

News & Politics, Fall Preview Sep 19, 2018
This November suburban voters have the chance to dump Trump's enablers

Get rid of rubber-stampers Roskam, Hultgren, and Kinzinger and stun the nation!
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Fall Preview, Election season, Fall preview 2018, Bruce Rauner, J. B. Pritzker, Peter Roskam, Sean Casten, Sara Dady, Adam Kinzinger, Blue Beginnings, resistance, November election, November, politics

Blogs, Bleader Mar 19, 2018
Failed eviction attempts wouldn't haunt tenants under proposed state law

Report finds 40 percent of Cook County eviction filings don't end in a judgment against the tenant, yet can still lead to difficulty finding new housing.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Housing, eviction, eviction court, gentrification, Emanuel Chris Welch, Theresa Mah, Juliana Stratton, state house, politics, Bob Palmer, Housing Action Illinois, Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing, Pilsen

News & Politics, The Vibe Feb 14, 2018
J.B. Pritzker's ‘African-American Thing’
- By Mark Konkol
- Tags: The Vibe, J.B. Pritzker, race, politics

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From voter outreach to working for their communities, undocumented immigrants across the Chicago area don’t let their immigration status get in the way of participating politically.

Frederick Wiseman’s documentary offers a hopeful look at political institutions.

The push to make all single-stall public restrooms in Illinois gender-neutral

Reformers across the nation are learning to be afraid.

In the world of the perfectly adequate (though exceptionally well-lit) rom-com, everything is possible.

Lori Lightfoot can negotiate a better agreement at Lincoln Yards and 78.

A timeline of historic moments in LGBTQ elected history in the Chicago area.

Lightfoot and Preckwinkle claim to be progressives but they stayed away from the front lines during the great fights of the Rahm years.

Tall tales about Lincoln Yards and CPS are part of Rahm’s attempt to make us forget Mayor 1 Percent.

The Reader's mayoral cheat sheet is here to help.

A look back at a crowded race full of candidates who didn't come to make friends.

In a race marked by strong women of color, Chicago may be poised to elect the machine-backed legacy white candidate.

She's tried to position herself as a progressive outsider but still has a reputation as the "Boss."

Does the reform candidate stand a chance in post-Rahm Chicago?

They may have little name recognition and no campaign funds, but the regular people running for mayor are committed to making the city thrive.

In this installment, a young alderwoman learns that doing good is much harder than promising to do good.

And some for progressives, too.

A legislative effort to allow Illinois inmates to exercise their right to vote continues despite Governor Rauner's veto of the bill.

At a book talk Tuesday at the SEIU Healthcare headquarters in Pilsen, Barbara Ransby discussed her book Making All Black Lives Matter.

Little Village property owners are seeing benefits in a new proposed state senate bill.

"Improv actors are like the best canvassers ever!"

The nonprofit organization is using art and culture to get young people in the city excited about voting in a world where politics are "pretty boring, pretty old, and pretty white."

Get rid of rubber-stampers Roskam, Hultgren, and Kinzinger and stun the nation!

Report finds 40 percent of Cook County eviction filings don't end in a judgment against the tenant, yet can still lead to difficulty finding new housing.

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