Twenty years later, the Reader looked back and wondered why no one else had done the same.
Tag: Gary Rivlin
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A second look at New Orleans and Kristen McQueary
Was the Trib columnist trafficking in “disaster capitalism”?
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The Tribune’s Kristen McQueary takes a Katrina-strength pounding
Readers overreact to Tribune Editorial Board member Kristen McQueary’s column calling for the city of Chicago to face a reckoning.
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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.
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Can Chuy beat Rahm in the race for mayor?
If African-Americans and Latinos come together the way they did for Harold Washington, Jesus Garcia could give Emanuel a run for his money.
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Remembering Dick Mell (and what he was really doing up on that table)
Dick Mell was always good copy—in the Reader.
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Harold Washington, Chicago politics, and the roots of the Obama presidency
A new edition of Gary Rivlin’s chronicle of the Harold Washington years, Fire on the Prairie
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From the Archives: The Night Chicago Burned
The city endured two riots in 1968—the one that everyone’s been talking about, and the one that everyone seems to have forgotten.
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Book Recommendation: On the importance of crime nonfiction
Today Michael Miner has a dispatch from Paul O’Connor, who got his start as Mike Royko’s legman. His suggestion for the Sun-Times is more crime reporting. I’ve got a good model….
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Reader vets on urban crime
Former Reader staff writer John Conroy has a must-read article in Chicago magazine this month, about being the victim of an assault while biking down Lake Street on the west side, and what happened when he decided to confront his assailant. And since torture is regularly in the news right now, I’d suggest his 2000 […]
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William “Dock” Walls takes on Da Mare
Long-shot mayoral candidate William “Dock” Walls is challenging Mayor Daley’s nominating petitions in a hearing tomorrow.