Fire On The Prairie Archives

Gary Rivlin—the reporter Harold Washington and Hurricane Katrina have in common

Former Reader writer Gary Rivlin has a new book out on the rebuilding of New Orleans postflood.

If African-Americans and Latinos come together the way they did for Harold Washington, Jesus Garcia could give Emanuel a run for his money.

A new edition of Gary Rivlin’s chronicle of the Harold Washington years, Fire on the Prairie

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Long-shot mayoral candidate William “Dock” Walls is challenging Mayor Daley’s nominating petitions in a hearing tomorrow.