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Home » Kenwood Oakland Community Organization

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Posted inNews & Politics

Chicago tenants continue to demand ‘rent control now’

by Maya Dukmasova October 16, 2019August 18, 2021

Lift the Ban Coalition braces for a 2020 fight in Springfield

Posted inColumns & Opinion

What we know about the future of Jackson Park

by Deanna Isaacs July 19, 2017August 18, 2021

Obama’s center? Sure. An elite golf course? Not so much.

Posted inNews & Politics

The secret history of Illinois’s rent control prohibition

by Maya Dukmasova May 16, 2017August 18, 2021

How conservatives preempted rent control before the public was ready to talk about it.

Posted inBlogs

Mayor Rahm runs out on his own budget hearing

by Ben Joravsky September 3, 2015August 18, 2021

As last night’s hearing at the South Shore Cultural Center showed, the Mayor was going through the motions when he solicited budget ideas and suggestions from Chicago’s citizens.

Posted inBlogs

Mayor Rahm to Dyett activists: No free choice for you!

by Ben Joravsky August 28, 2015August 18, 2021

When it comes to giving the hunger strikers and KOCO a say in running Dyett High School, Mayor Emanuel’s no longer such a big advocate for free markets and school choice.

Rep Christian Mitchell (left) says the community should have a voice on the school board; challenger Jay Travis says he’s late to the party.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

South-side legislator joins the fight for community schools—right before the election

by Ben Joravsky February 18, 2014August 18, 2021

In south-side legislative race, charges fly over who’s the real schools advocate.

Jitu Brown of Kenwood Oakland Community Organization wants to send "busloads of people to Springfield" to persuade the state to require an elected school board in Chicago.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The mayor gets the City Council to bury the elected school board issue (again)

by Ben Joravsky December 3, 2013August 19, 2021

The mayor gets the City Council to bury the elected school board issue (again).

Posted inBlogs

The Wrong Burris

by Ben Joravsky December 31, 2008August 19, 2021

It doesn’t really matter who Governor Blagojevich appoints to fill Barack Obama’s vacant seat–we’re not going to get any independent leadership out of it anyway.

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