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Home » Carlos Ramirez-Rosa

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Posted inNews

Sun and solidarity

by Reader staff April 29, 2022April 29, 2022

Photos from the Reader editorial union’s rally on April 21, 2022.

How aldermen voted on “DuSable Lake Shore Drive” (left) and Chicago racial demographics (2010 data) from the Racial Dot Map (right.) Each dot on the map represents one person. Blue = white, green = Black, red = Asian, and orange = Hispanic
Posted inColumns & Opinion

DuSable Drive opponents said the issue wasn’t about race. The numbers speak for themselves.

by John Greenfield June 28, 2021August 18, 2021

Survey data and the vote breakdown on DuSable Drive showed a sharp racial divide in support.

Posted inNews & Politics

Escalating violence and lack of police response put the city’s homeless even more at risk

by Adam M. Rhodes January 15, 2021August 18, 2021

A string of fires and stabbings have many advocates worried, and challenges in reporting and investigating these crimes leave little hope for justice.

Posted inNews & Politics

Aldermen power through Lightfoot’s emergency moves

by Dave Glowacz May 22, 2020August 18, 2021

When it comes to pandemic planning, is the mayor responsive and collaborative, or dismissive and combative? It depends on whom you ask.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Pandemic pedestrian activity and COVID-19 cycling

by Courtney Cobbs and John Greenfield April 27, 2020August 18, 2021

Would an East Bay-style Slow Streets program be beneficial in Chicago during the coronavirus crisis? It depends on whom you ask.

Posted inNews & Politics

Who voted for Iris Martinez?

by Maya Dukmasova March 20, 2020August 18, 2021

Maybe she was the most qualified candidate in the clerk of the Circuit Court race. Or maybe she had the best name.

Posted inNews & Politics

Just 15 seats hang in the balance

by Maya Dukmasova March 8, 2019August 18, 2021

Runoff season is here, and Chicago may further freshen up the City Council.

Posted inNews & Politics

Hip-hop taught Andre Vasquez about community—and he wants to take those lessons to City Hall

by Leor Galil February 14, 2019August 18, 2021

In the 90s Andre Vasquez rapped as Prime and joined underground collective the Molemen. Now he’s a socialist candidate for 40th Ward alderman, hoping to unseat entrenched incumbent Patrick O’Connor.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Celebrating Acero’s successful teachers’ strike—and the belated victory for Karen Lewis

by Ben Joravsky December 18, 2018August 18, 2021

Chicago’s City Council hates taking from the schools and giving to the rich but sometimes they do it anyway.

Posted inBlogs

Looks like Karen Lewis may have defeated Rahm after all

by Ben Joravsky December 17, 2018August 18, 2021

As I watched jubilant teachers, wearing union red, from the Acero charter school network celebrate the new contract they’d won after a four-day strike, I had a flashback to the way things used to be. The Chicago Teachers Unions were in the midst of their 2012 strike, which had shuttered all the public schools in […]

Posted inBlogs

In debate over civilian oversight of Chicago police, grassroots proposals win the day

by Maya Dukmasova June 6, 2018August 18, 2021

Alderman Ariel Reboyras’s two proposals were decried as toothless at the last of five community meetings on proposed police reform ordinances.

Posted inBlogs

Why did Carlos Ramirez-Rosa get kicked out of the City Council’s Latino Caucus?

by Ben Joravsky May 24, 2018August 18, 2021

A few theories, and a little advice: If you want back in, Carlos, fall on your knees and suck up to the mayor.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Looking for the most progressive Democrat in the governor’s race who’s least likely to sell us out

by Ben Joravsky February 15, 2018August 18, 2021

Biss, Daiber, Hardiman, Kennedy, Pritzker—man, I can’t make up my mind.

Posted inBlogs

Daniel Biss on Abu Ghraib, how to resist the urge to check out at the words ‘pension crisis,’ and what he’s learned from Michael Madigan

by Maya Dukmasova February 6, 2018August 18, 2021

The Illinois gubernatorial candidate talks about the arc of progressive politics and what’s required to bring change to the state capitol.

Posted inBlogs

Proposed Chicago Public Schools closings allegedly in violation of teachers’ union contract, and other news

by Kate Shepherd January 8, 2018August 18, 2021

Also, alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa is reportedly planning to drop out of race to replace Congressman Luis Gutierrez.

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