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- News & Politics, Feature Oct 3, 2019
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‘Enough is enough’
Many in Chicago's Hong Kong community share common concerns for the safety of loved ones back home.
- News & Politics, Feature Feb 4, 2019
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‘Don't push us out’
The First and 26th Wards will vote on a nonbinding referendum that asks whether Illinois should li ft the ban on rent control—prohibited in the state since 1997.
- News & Politics, Politics Jan 25, 2019
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Aldermen Goodfellas
Mayoral candidate Bill Daley’s proposed City Council cuts don’t sound so bad with aldermen talking like mobsters.
- News & Politics, Politics Dec 20, 2018
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Preckwinkle fund-raising e-mail seeks to capitalize on Cyntoia Brown case
But the mayoral candidate doesn't mention ways to help the incarcerated Tennessee woman.
- News & Politics, Feature Dec 18, 2018
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Mayoral forum recap: all the answers, none of the bullshit
At back-to-back forums last week 11 candidates fielded questions and even provided some answers.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 15, 2018
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More than 100 people showed up at a public meeting in order to save the Hideout
Instead Alderman Brian Hopkins announced he'd already introduced a zoning ordinance to protect the beloved bar.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 13, 2018
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What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival about witches
Kristen Sollée explained our current witchy moment, with detours into mythology, theology, and Bewitched.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2018
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Joravsky’s election predictions—going where the New York Times is too scared to venture
Ben Joravsky offers predictions for the 2018 midterm elections—including those for both houses of Congress.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2018
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Activists protest pro-life event at Holy Trinity Church
Attendees circled the entrance of the church holding signs and yelling chants including "Pro-life, your name's a lie, you don't care if women die."
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 5, 2018
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Rahm’s legacy: fictitious narratives and real obligations
Don't be fooled. The mayor isn't gone yet, and neither are the problems he's leaving behind.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 5, 2018
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Who's that speaking for the Sun-Times this time?
The legacy of the Sun-Times—what's that?
- News & Politics, Politics Nov 1, 2018
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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.
- News & Politics, Politics Nov 1, 2018
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Cook County judicial elections stir up unusual public scrutiny
At least two Cook County judges are at risk of losing their seats. Why is that so rare?
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2018
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Q&A: Cook County Board candidate Abdelnasser Rashid on taxes, surveillance, and campaign finance reform
Vying to flip one of four Republican seats, the 29-year-old would be the first Muslim in the county legislature.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 29, 2018
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What we learned this weekend at the Chicago Humanities Festival
Jerry Saltz, Alex Ross, women's anger, and why historians sort of miss Richard Nixon
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 25, 2018
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Warning, Democrats: a Rauner victory over Pritzker could turn Illinois into a red state
A second term by our current governor would feature more of the same thing: union bashing, budget slashing, school privatization, etc.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 22, 2018
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A conversation on the future of the highest court in the land
At Chicago Ideas Week, legal scholars take a broad look at the functions of an effective Supreme Court.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2018
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Staffer Ryan Smith says goodbye to the Reader
Social media editor Ryan Smith has some parting words about politics and his three-and-a-half-year tenure at the Chicago Reader.
- 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?
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2018
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Where and what to vote for this midterm election in Chicago
You’ll have to decide on the who by yourself.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 10, 2018
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 8, 2018
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In a face-off against Pritzker, Rauner tries a little Reagan-style voodoo economics
Last week's televised debate between the governor and his Democratic challenger, J.B. Pritzker, revealed exactly nothing about the two candidates' intentions regarding the state income tax rate.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2018
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Indivisible Chicago’s Blue Wave Rave uses improv to mobilize political action
"Improv actors are like the best canvassers ever!"
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 1, 2018
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Rauner vs. Kavanaugh—who's the biggest fraud?
One claims to be the victory of a vast left-wing conspiracy originating with the Clinton, the other to be a centrist despite his anti-union agenda.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2018
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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."