Local news outlets don’t seem to think so.
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Emanuel and Garcia offered weak responses on segregation at Monday’s debate
A college student asks the mayoral candidates about segregation, and is disappointed by their answers.
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Rahm Emanuel finds the sunny side of racial segregation
The mayor gives a curious answer during last night’s debate.
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Mayoral candidates still have a chance to speak up about racial segregation—will they?
There are two Chicagos, Emanuel’s challengers agree. But so far, only one of the challengers has pinpointed the underlying problem.
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Five honors students from Chicago rap’s freshman class
Five honors students from Chicago rap’s freshman class: Alex Wiley, Saba, Spenzo, Taylor Bennett, and ZMoney
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Moore v. Waguespack on Rahm!
Aldermen Waguespack and Fioretti waged a spirited debate against two of Mayor Rahm’s favorite aldermen over the mayor’s $1.9 billion borrowing binge.
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Hey, Bruce Rauner: Payton Prep is a union school!
In another case of “do as I say not as I do,” Bruce Rauner, hater of teachers’ unions, sends his daughter to a unionized Chicago high school.
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Hey, Mr. Mayor: Don’t mess with Wendy Katten!
The CPS budget says it all: Mayor Emanuel’s giving more money to the charters as he cuts spending for the regular public schools.
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Parodies lost: why satire must be banned from the Internet
A modest proposal for a serious problem
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Is Chicago a better place to live and learn than it used to be? Yes.
Answering questions about Harold Washington and Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett
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Inside Rahm’s privatization economic team
The top three members of the financial team at City Hall all come from firms known for privatization work
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Schizo Chicago: the City Council defers the infrastucture fund
The City Council momentarily give us a little something to cheer about by telling Mayor Emanuel to take his infrastructure fund and shove it up his . . .
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Rahm Emanuel’s shifting views of the parking meter deal
Two-and-a-half years after it was consummated, the infamous parking-meter lease deal won’t go away—perhaps because there’s 72+ years left of it. Last week, for example, citizens submitted at least four questions about the city’s meter system or the deal itself during Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s two town hall meetings. The mayor called the use of meter […]
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What the Old Media Owes the New Media
A citizen journalist is smarting from a slight by Chicago Tonight.
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The Reader on the (Public) Airwaves
Ben Joravsky on Chicago Tonight; Hunter Clauss on 848.