I can’t remember where I was when my old friend Adolfo Mondragón first told me he was thinking of suing former Alderman Danny Solis for using campaign funds to pay criminal defense fees. A White Sox game? A restaurant? Doesn’t matter, the point is—it was the summer of 2019, which seems like eons ago. Just […]
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We’re number one!
With two aldermen indicted on just one day, Chicago proves it’s second to none when it comes to corruption.
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Some things never change
Aldermen can vote to fire city workers but they better not vote against a TIF.
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The show goes on
One era ends and another begins for our beloved First Tuesdays.
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Lightfoot’s first council meeting excites but sheds little light on procedures
What’s going on in the City Council? Still hard to say!
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Chicago poli-tricks as usual
Aldermen just raised property taxes to pay for Rahm’s TIF handout to his pals.
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Just 15 seats hang in the balance
Runoff season is here, and Chicago may further freshen up the City Council.
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Happy returns
The Ben Joravsky Show returns, streaming live Tuesday through Friday on the websites of the Reader and the Chicago Sun-Times.
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The many lives of Alderman Danny Solis
Solis swapped his loyalty to Daley and Rahm for sex, Viagra, and the council’s zoning chair.
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Aldermen Goodfellas
Mayoral candidate Bill Daley’s proposed City Council cuts don’t sound so bad with aldermen talking like mobsters.
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Celebrating Acero’s successful teachers’ strike—and the belated victory for Karen Lewis
Chicago’s City Council hates taking from the schools and giving to the rich but sometimes they do it anyway.
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Looks like Karen Lewis may have defeated Rahm after all
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 […]
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Which mayoral candidates will survive the petition challenge process?
Thanks to former Mayor Daley and his allies, Chicago has the highest mayoral signature requirement in the country.
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A quick primer to mayoral ballot access challenges
With the Christmas season upon us, Chicago Democrats will get in the spirit by dropping into the mud and doing a little wrestling, eye-gouging included. The battle will heat up as mayoral and aldermanic candidates attempt to exploit arcane and arbitrary election laws to bounce their opponents from the ballot. Because, as we all know, it’s […]