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Trump’s war on medical marijuana putting Illinois dispensaries at ‘risk’
The president has added more red tape for pot dispensaries and has scared banks from taking their deposits.
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Downstate hate: A history of the bitter, nearly 200-year rivalry between Chicago and the rest of Illinois
The animosity between Illinois’s largest city and its smaller towns is almost as old as the state itself.
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Former president Barack Obama reports for Cook County jury duty, and other Chicago news
Also, Chance the Rapper slams Emanuel’s plan to build $95 million police training academy.
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Alderman Ameya Pawar slams Ed Burke for representing Trump in tax refund lawsuit, and other Chicago news
Also, Chicago is close to surpassing 600 homicides for the second year in a row.
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Sarah Smarsh’s insight into the lives of the working poor comes from her own wealth of experience
A discussion with the writer in advance of her appearance at the Chicago Humanities Festival
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With collusion question, Mike Quigley probes Trump team’s connection to Russia
The Illinois rep and House Intelligence Committee member asks what Trump knew about the Russian hacks and when he knew it.
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President-elect Trump called Rahm Emanuel for advice on his transition, and other Chicago news
Also, Democratic billionaire businessman J.B. Pritzker is considering a self-funded 2018 run for governor.
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A look back at 1994, when dumping on Hillary was a new sport
When first-rate journalists first heaped it on.
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Bill Clinton’s DNC speech showed he’s still got political game
As imperfect as he is, he’s still a master at tugging the heartstrings.
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Mayor Emanuel decamps for the DNC, and other Chicago news
Also, did you notice Toni Preckwinkle sitting next to Bill Clinton at the DNC?
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Remembering Abner Mikva, who built Evanston’s Democratic Party
The former congressman took the political know-how he gleaned in Chicago to build the Democratic Party of Evanston.
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Trump may be a grandiose narcissist, but he’s no match for the Lyndon Johnson of All the Way
The HBO movie about a narcissist-in-chief reveals a lot about our potential new narcissist-in-chief.
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Hopped up on fictions about crack, Clinton defends his 1994 crime bill
The former president relies on a super-predator stereotype of his own to justify his bill’s harsh sentences.
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Thomas Frank calls Bill Clinton and Rahm the betrayers of the ‘party of the people’
In Listen Liberal, the author of What’s the Matter With Kansas? takes a break from bashing the GOP to hold a mirror up to the flaws of the Democratic Party.