When the hard-boiled types in City Hall got wind of Pat Quinn’s latest gig as director of the city’s Revenue Department, they all agreed that something flashy was going to […]
Author Archives: Ben Joravsky
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Party of Juan
Once Juan Soliz was the city’s most promising Hispanic politician. Now he’s an outcast–an opportunist who made one promise too many.
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Man vs. parking garage: the private war of Harry Mazzoni
By almost all accounts, Harry Mazzoni is a big pain in the neck. And that’s the generous point of view. A lot of people who know him think he’s a […]
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Robert Ahrens’s smorgasboard of city services for senior citizens
The defending champions, a crew of eight or so Italians, their hair gray and faces lined, stand behind a table loaded with plates of macaroni, pasta e fagioli, and eggplant […]
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Leanita McClain
Remembering journalist and essayist Leanita McClain, who shed light on race and class issues in 80s Chicago, through her collection, A Foot in Each World
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Central Committee
A snapshot from a 1986 meeting of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee