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Tag: Father Michael Pfleger
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Father Pfleger, top cop Johnson, and a tinge of hope for the city’s future
Police superintendent Eddie Johnson and Father Michael Pfleger teaming up, as they did walking arm in arm down the Dan Ryan last week, could help us fight the city’s inequities.
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Rahm and Rauner’s phony Ryan feud: Don’t be fooled by the Twitter barbs
Here’s hoping voters are too sophisticated to fall for the supposed discord over the protest that shut down the Dan Ryan.
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If you can’t smoke weed right now, you might as well read about it
Cannabis, marijuana, reefer, mary jane, weed, pot, bud, herb, ganja, we’ve covered it all.
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Let’s celebrate the loss of the Lucas Museum
A loss for Rahm is a win for the city’s discontented citizens.
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Oh, the irony: Mayor Rahm’s allies call Lucas Museum opponents elitists
The coded language at the heart of the lakefront fight.
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It’s Donald Trump vs. the Ricketts family in a billionaire feud for the ages and other Chicago news
Also, a New Yorker profile on Father Michael Pfleger offers an interesting glimpse into Chicago politics, and a man is found shot to death in taxi in Lincoln Square.
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Mayor Rahm takes off his sweater, drops an F-bomb in the New Yorker’s Father Pfleger profile
“All the assumptions you have about me are fucking wrong,” Emanuel tells the New Yorker‘s Evan Osnos.
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Alderman says mayor wasted money repaving streets that didn’t need it
Seventeenth Ward alderman David Moore was hazed with one of the oldest tricks in the Chicago book: stealing a rookie’s TIF money.
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Mayor Rahm: He’s everywhere! He’s everywhere!
Wildcat and Buckeye fans agree: The highlight of this weekend’s Northwestern-Ohio State game is what happened when the image of Mayor Rahm flashed on the big screen at Ryan Field.
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At Saint Sabina, basketball and boos for Mayor Rahm
After two years of school cuts and closings and TIF handouts for his cronies, it’s understandable that south-siders would boo Mayor Rahm.
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Starting today on the Bleader: Weed Week
There’s no such thing as marijuana overkill.
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So what exactly is police superintendent McCarthy’s position on gun control?
Police superintendent Garry McCarthy has something to say about guns and gun laws. It’s just not clear what exactly that is. Several news outlets reported yesterday that McCarthy told the congregation at St. Sabina church that federal laws that allow guns to proliferate in cities like Chicago are an example of “government-sponsored racism” in the […]
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Understanding Father Pfleger
Robert McClory’s “Radical Disciple” observes and explains Father Michael Pfleger