CPD has tried to turn rapper and comedian Mohawk Johnson into a cautionary example to social justice protesters. He has other plans.
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Aldermen power through Lightfoot’s emergency moves
When it comes to pandemic planning, is the mayor responsive and collaborative, or dismissive and combative? It depends on whom you ask.
Posted inMusic
Chicago’s Blake Saint David knows how to navigate our genreless future
Brockhampton, Billie Eilish, Khalid, and scores of other musicians who’ve emerged in the past few years have taken a wrecking ball to genre divides and gotten hugely popular in the process. The genreless state of pop has also produced a lot of gray, emotionally static music, of course, just like happens within any genre, but […]
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This week’s Chicagoan: Kelwin Harris, DJ and former assistant to Mayor Daley
Kelwin Harris: “Was Mayor Daley intimidating like a guy-beating-on-a-table, in-your-face kind of thing? No.”
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Why aldermen are mum about Chicago’s violence: They’re not sure what to say
To stop the bloodshed, members of the City Council propose more cops, jobs, church, and trips to Great America.
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Zoom in: Auburn-Gresham
Richard J. Daley is inextricably tied to Bridgeport, sure, but what’s up with the stopover in Auburn-Gresham?
Posted inArts & Culture
The unfinished business of Richard M. Daley
First Son, details the accomplishments of Mayor Richard M. Daley—but it barely sets foot in Chicago.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Before the schools, Mayor Emanuel closed the clinics
Before Mayor Emanuel proposed closing schools, he shuttered mental health clinics.
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School closings: The latest blow to neighborhoods already reeling from disinvestment
What’s the cost of pulling the plug on public services in neighborhoods desperately in need of them?
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South-side residents fend off pawnshop plan
In the face of community opposition, plans are withdrawn for a pawnshop at 79th and Western
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The shot that brought the projects down, part four of five
How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part four of five
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The people v. the pawnshop
What one vacant lot says about the future of devlopment in the city
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Rahm announces another “new initiative” that’s decades old
The mayor’s plan to raze troubled buildings sounds a lot like the one Mayor Daley “introduced” in 1992
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City job cuts hit black and Hispanic neighborhoods hardest
City job cuts hit black and Hispanic neighborhoods hardest
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Father Pfleger: end the pot possession busts!
On pro-pot-decriminalization priest Father Michael Pfleger