Sheriff Tom Dart will be talking with Ben, Mick, and Sun Times reporter Rummana Hussain about all matters of crime and punishment—guns and mental health included—this Tuesday at the Hideout.
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Take a listen to ‘Plutocrat (The Ballad of Bruce Rauner)’
Matt Farmer—lawyer by day, singer by night—is gonna be in a heap of trouble if the old sour puss, Bruce Rauner, sees that music video he made about him.
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When the going gets tough, remember Jane Byrne
A ray of sunshine for Chicagoans contemplating the likelihood of another term for Mayor Rahm
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Clinton-era memos offer a trip through Mayor Rahm’s brain
Memos from his days as a President Clinton staffer show that Mayor Rahm has always been a calculating political operator.
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Mayor Rahm’s roots are in Daley-era patronage politics
In case anyone has forgotten, Mayor Emanuel still owes his career to Donald Tomczak and other hacks from the Daley machine.
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The lessons of UNOgate—don’t let Mihalopoulos catch you!
Hey, charter school operators: if you want to continue paying your teachers substandard salaries and firing them on a whim, it’s a good idea not to dole out contracts to the brothers of the chief operating officer.
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Need money? Just take it out of TIF petty cash!
When the city needs the money, it just takes it from the TIF petty cash.
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William Daley to Rahm Emanuel: Kiss my ass!
Why William Daley mocked Emanuel in the press.
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Everything you need to know about Ken Davis and his show on CAN TV
On Thursday, I ride my bike to Greektown to do the Ken Davis Show, which is not a good idea. The biking part, I mean — love the Ken Davis show — cause by the time I get to the studio, I’m sweating like a horse….
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Fran In The Middle
Sam Zell and Governor Thompson use the Sun-Times to negotiate their Wrigley Field sales deal.
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The Bright One joins the team
The Sun-Times blasts the state’s proposed handout to Sam Zell–maybe next it’ll go after Mayor Daley’s TIFs.
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How Many Polls Does It Take to Screw Up an Election?
To the editors: In your most recent City Hall column [February 27], you assert that the increase in voter support for Mayor Washington seen in the second Chicago Sun-Times poll of the past campaign was the result of my arbitrarily adjusting the proportion of black voters in the survey sample upwards from 36 percent to […]