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Posted inBlogs

New podcast The City brings back memories of Alderman Bill Henry and dealmaking in Chicago

by Ben Joravsky October 16, 2018August 18, 2021

And Henry turns out to be a major character in Robin Amer’s ten-part audio documentary for USA Today.

Posted inNews & Politics

Black pols stuck in the Democratic machine’s spin cycle explain themselves

by Adeshina Emmanuel February 14, 2018August 18, 2021

Here’s why they’re still standing behind J.B. Pritzker.

Posted inMusic

Pastor T.L. Barrett cut a widely sampled gospel-funk album in 1971

by Steve Krakow July 5, 2016November 11, 2021

Pastor T.L. Barrett has been a lot of things: an activist preacher, a top-shelf gospel-funk musician, a convicted scammer.

Posted inBlogs

White Sox and Cubs are both 2-0 for first time since 1951

by Steve Bogira April 6, 2016August 18, 2021

Martin Kennelly was mayor the last time both clubs won their first pair in the same season, 65 years ago.

Posted inBlogs

How many Chicago mayors have graduated from a Chicago public high school?

by Steve Bogira January 6, 2015August 18, 2021

Our mayors’ experience with CPS has rarely been firsthand.

Alderman Robert Fioretti, a potential challenger to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, has been speaking to community and business groups around the city as part of his "listening tour."
Posted inNews & Politics

Alderman Robert Fioretti says he’s just listening—but it sure looks like he’s running for mayor

by Mick Dumke August 20, 2014August 18, 2021

It sure looks like Alderman Fioretti is running for mayor.

Cook County clerk David Orr's reform proposals have been irritating mayors for 35 years.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

County clerk David Orr’s reform talk annoys another mayor

by Ben Joravsky April 22, 2014August 18, 2021

Cook County clerk David Orr’s reform proposals have been irritating mayors for 35 years.

Posted inBlogs

Remembering Dick Mell (and what he was really doing up on that table)

by Michael Miner July 5, 2013August 19, 2021

Dick Mell was always good copy—in the Reader.

Eric Carter, commander of the Sixth police district, addresses residents in Chatham after telling them Superintendent Garry McCarthy couldn't make it.
Posted inNews & Politics

Where’s Garry McCarthy?

by Mick Dumke August 25, 2011August 19, 2021

A frustrated south-side community invites Chicago’s new police superintendent to a “dialogue”

Posted inBlogs

Alderman Lyle Tells Her Constituents So Long—and, to Some, Good Riddance

by Mick Dumke April 15, 2011August 19, 2021

Departing Sixth Ward alderman Freddrenna Lyle was as blunt as ever in her last public ward meeting.

Posted inBlogs

Annals of Daley: The Racial Healing Card

by Whet Moser September 9, 2010August 19, 2021

The biggest theme in the first round of pre-post-Daley reflections: his bridging of racial divides in Chicago politics. How’d it happen?

Posted inNews & Politics

Time for a Revolution

by Mick Dumke March 11, 2010August 19, 2021

No way is Mayor Daley going down without a fight. But perhaps you’ve noticed: he rarely ever gets one.

Posted inNews & Politics

Taking the New Yorker for a Ride

by Ben Joravsky March 11, 2010August 19, 2021

The Chicago in Evan Osnos’s story is the Chicago you’d see out the window of the mayor’s limo.

Scott and Mayor Daley in 2001, after Scott was named president of the Board of Education
Posted inNews & Politics

The Insider

by Ben Joravsky November 26, 2009August 19, 2021

Remembering the unflappable Michael Scott

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