The former congressman took the political know-how he gleaned in Chicago to build the Democratic Party of Evanston.
Tag: Andrew Patner
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Chicago Theater Memorial Bike Ride honors theater professionals lost too soon
The Chicago Theater Memorial Bike Ride commemorates theater professionals who have recently passed.
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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.
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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.
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Critic and ‘gregarious loner’ Andrew Patner passes away at 55
The local culture critic dies suddenly
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When you call someone a jagoff, what exactly are you trying to say?
A thoughtful debate about jagoffs.
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Now disappearing behind a pay wall—Rob Feder!
Will Rob Feder’s readers follow him behind a pay wall?
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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.
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A legendary CSO horn player struggles against time
A legendary CSO horn player struggles against time
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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?
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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Norman Pellegrini, 1929-2009
Norman Pellegrini, WFMT’s first employee and its program director for 43 years, has passed away.
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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.