The former congressman took the political know-how he gleaned in Chicago to build the Democratic Party of Evanston.
Tag: Andrew Patner
Chicago Theater Memorial Bike Ride honors theater professionals lost too soon
The Chicago Theater Memorial Bike Ride commemorates theater professionals who have recently passed.
Saying good-bye and thank you to Andrew Patner
Chicago music critic Andrew Patner, who died last month, gets a memorable send-off at Orchestra Hall.
Celebrate the life of critic Andrew Patner tonight at Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Lyric Opera Orchestra play in honor of the classical music critic.
Critic and ‘gregarious loner’ Andrew Patner passes away at 55
The local culture critic dies suddenly
When you call someone a jagoff, what exactly are you trying to say?
A thoughtful debate about jagoffs.
Now disappearing behind a pay wall—Rob Feder!
Will Rob Feder’s readers follow him behind a pay wall?
Mayor Rahm doles out some goodies to Hyde Park and Kenwood
With an eye toward winning south-side votes, Mayor Rahm agrees to move the Kenwood Academic Center into the closed Canter school building.
A legendary CSO horn player struggles against time
A legendary CSO horn player struggles against time
Andrew Patner Talks Burge with John Conroy and Michael Miner
Is there a “torturable class” in most societies? Why didn’t the Chicago dailies care about Burge?
Will the Chicago News Collective represent Chicago?
In the Sun-Times today, Laura Washington calls out the nascent Chicago News Cooperative (using Andrew Patner’s post as a jumping-off point) for being an old boys’ club: “All the wealthy, upper-middle class elites have assembled a cozy club to decide what the masses should know.” I’m not unsympathetic, but still reserving judgment. If you want […]
Who Benefits?
Andrew Patner asks the question, and in the original Latin, in his energetic blog post on the new Chicago News Cooperative that Jim O’Shea announced today.
You were born too soon, I was born too late*
Lynn Becker’s tribute to late WFMT program director Norman Pellegrini has me misty-eyed, and wishing I was born earlier.
Norman Pellegrini, 1929-2009
Norman Pellegrini, WFMT’s first employee and its program director for 43 years, has passed away.
Everything old is new again
The Chicago Reporter has a must-read analysis of Wells Fargo’s lending practices in Chicago – which is suggestive of the predatory lending that devastated Lawndale during the mid-20th century.