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Posted inNews & Politics

The murder Chicago didn’t want to solve

by Mick Dumke March 2, 2021August 18, 2021

In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Clues suggest the murder was a professional hit. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.

Posted inNews & Politics

Chicago’s election signals break from the past — in wards and at City Hall

by Mick Dumke March 4, 2019August 18, 2021

Change is in the air like never before.

Posted inBlogs

Rauner and Pritzker tout government transparency while blocking access to records

by Mick Dumke October 18, 2018August 18, 2021

Will Illinois’s candidates for governor ever practice what they preach?

Posted inBlogs

Pro tip for mayoral hopefuls: Don’t govern by press release, do sweat the small stuff

by Mick Dumke September 13, 2018August 18, 2021

Many Chicagoans never felt that Rahm Emanuel was their mayor.

Posted inNews & Politics

Protests and blaming the media—sound familiar? That was during the ’68 Democratic National Convention

by Mick Dumke August 21, 2018August 18, 2021

Archived letters to former Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley bring up familiar concerns about unrest, policing, political divisions, and “propaganda.”

Posted inNews & Politics

The trials of Anita Alvarez

by Mick Dumke and the Better Government Association September 16, 2015August 18, 2021

Can Cook County’s state’s attorney convince voters she’s more than a lock-’em-up prosecutor from a bygone era?

Posted inBlogs

Like Governor Rauner, Speaker Madigan says he has the right to do public business in secret

by Mick Dumke August 13, 2015August 18, 2021

Mike Madigan says the Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to him.

Posted inNews & Politics

The one-man battle to find out where Ventra came from

by Mick Dumke August 12, 2015August 18, 2021

After suing the CTA, Jason Prechtel got the inside scoop on how Chicago ended up with Ventra.

Posted inBlogs

Governor Rauner reiterates that he plans to keep his meeting schedule private

by Mick Dumke July 22, 2015August 18, 2021

The governor responds to the Reader‘s story about his fight to conceal his schedules from the public.

Posted inBlogs

Governor Rauner says he can hold as many secret meetings on public time as he wants

by Mick Dumke July 20, 2015August 18, 2021

The governor’s office fights to keep his calendars and meeting schedules from the public.

Posted inBlogs

State budget showdown puts criminal justice reforms on hold

by Mick Dumke July 16, 2015August 18, 2021

Bills to decriminalize pot and shrink the prison population are in purgatory while the governor and Democrats feud.

Posted inNews & Politics

Accused terrorists from Chicago were lured by extremists—and the U.S. government

by Mick Dumke July 9, 2015August 18, 2021

Local terrorism cases—from a fake bomb outside Wrigley Field to a car bomb outside a downtown bar—reveal authorities using tactics bordering on entrapment.

Posted inNews & Politics

While ISIS recruits, our government watches

by Mick Dumke July 9, 2015August 18, 2021

Is there an alternative to locking up a Chicago-area teenager who wanted to live under the Islamic State?

Posted inNews & Politics

Mohammed Hamzah Khan ISIS Islamic State terrorism

by Mick Dumke July 8, 2015August 18, 2021

Is there an alternative to locking up a Chicago-area teenager who wanted to live under the Islamic State?

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best online publication following the astounding things your alderman does

by Mick Dumke June 24, 2015August 18, 2021

Aldertrack aldertrack.com, @aldertrack We all know how it goes around here: what the mayor wants, the City Council rubber-stamps. But there really is more to the story, and Aldertrack reports on its many twists, turns, and central characters. Cofounder Jimm Dispensa launched the first version of the site in 2007 as a way of following […]

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