When it comes to pandemic planning, is the mayor responsive and collaborative, or dismissive and combative? It depends on whom you ask.
Author Archives: Dave Glowacz
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A viral budget grab
Does the mayor’s COVID-19 executive order put her on light footing?
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David Reifman has left the building
As the Department of Planning and Development commissioner departs, megadevelopers lose one of their biggest cheerleaders.
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CPS students call foul on Emanuel’s charter school claims
Carol Moseley Braun has complained that reporters jump on her “crack addict” and “Hitler” references—but ignore Rahm Emanuel’s transgressions. Does she have a point?
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Filed Away?
“Honorably terminated” teachers—some nationally recognized—say they can’t get so much as a callback about jobs in the Chicago Public Schools. One colleague’s bureaucratic nightmare has given them reason to fear the worst.
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Ride With Attitude
glowacz.qxd I take issue with T.C. O’Rourke’s implication [Letters, April 3] that cyclists need other cyclists around them not to be “endangered” on Chicago streets [City File, March 13]. What will put you at risk, I believe, is timid street cycling–the kind of timidity that O’Rourke’s “alone we’re endangered” dogma promotes. If your fear of […]
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Reader to Reader
It was a weekday afternoon in the parking lot of a gleaming urban strip mall. From stores with names like Work ‘n Gear, several people hurried to their cars carrying bulky plastic bags. “Mommy, I don’t waaaa-naaaa!” whined a sandy-haired boy of about five who was being half pulled, half dragged by a 40-ish woman. […]
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Studio announces new “Star Trek” movie
Paramount Pictures this week announced the next in its blockbuster series of “Star Trek” motion pictures. The new flick, “Star Trek: Aberrations,” features a cast that fans will find familiar, yet bizarre, studio officials said. While the new movie will have some connection with the previous movies-including “The Voyage Home Rule” and “The Wrath of […]
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Cops on bikes: an experimentation in community policing
These Parts: Joliet, IL
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Stumps along the North Branch: canoeists confront Army Corps in cutting controversy
A few Sundays back, Jim Hart was canoeing down the North Branch of the Chicago River near Oakton Avenue, in the middle of the forest preserve. Trees were everywhere he looked–including, he was suddenly shocked to see, in the middle of the stream. “I said, oh my god–some guy must have bought a new chain […]
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City Scenes: superpoets vs. the money-go-round
Over the last few years, in between managing an adult education center on 18th Street and developing youth-education programs for Mayor Daley, Gabriele Strohschen ran a series of what she calls “cross-cultural exchanges”: educators from around the globe came to swap teaching strategies with their counterparts in Chicago. Last month Strohschen brought cross-culturalism and performance […]
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On Video: Bob Hercules presents a chance viewing situation
Last summer, when Bob Hercules used James Bond’s high-powered sound equipment to stage an open-air video show in Wicker Park, Hercules says people were drawn like flies to the flickering light of the screen. Now Hercules and Bond are back–with fancier gear, as in any good sequel. This year’s two-hour presentation of short features by […]