Also, former governor Rod Blagojevich speaks about his time in prison.
Tag: Archdiocese of Chicago
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New Emanuel plan would require CPS students have post-high school plans in order to graduate, and other Chicago news
Also, a GOP state senator has reportedly been encouraged to run against Rauner in the 2018 gubernatorial primary.
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Houston on track to unseat Chicago as the nation’s third-largest city, and other news
Also, former U.S. House speaker Dennis Hastert to report to prison in June.
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Street Gospel
Rev. Michael Pfleger in “Radical Disciple” Bob Hercules, who explored the lives of Barack Obama, pioneering community organizer Saul Alinsky, and gadfly Holocaust survivor Eva Kor in his previous documentaries, turns his eye on another kind of rabble rouser in his new Radical Disciple: The Father Story of Father Pfleger. The film premieres Friday, Aug. […]
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St. Boniface Still Stands
Despite reports of its demise, St. Boniface Church has been spared the wrecking ball at least until March.
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Cardinal Sins
In September 1981 the Sun-Times published a daring expose of the country’s most powerful clergyman, Cardinal John Patrick Cody, archbishop of Chicago. The series charged fiscal impropriety and hinted at sexual scandal. Behind the scenes were Andrew Greeley, Joseph Bernardin, and a pack of competing newsmen chasing a Byzantine tale of ecclesiastical machination. The reporters, […]