Lift the Ban Coalition braces for a 2020 fight in Springfield
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What we know about the future of Jackson Park
Obama’s center? Sure. An elite golf course? Not so much.
Posted inNews & Politics
The secret history of Illinois’s rent control prohibition
How conservatives preempted rent control before the public was ready to talk about it.
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Mayor Rahm runs out on his own budget hearing
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.
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Mayor Rahm to Dyett activists: No free choice for you!
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.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
South-side legislator joins the fight for community schools—right before the election
In south-side legislative race, charges fly over who’s the real schools advocate.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The mayor gets the City Council to bury the elected school board issue (again)
The mayor gets the City Council to bury the elected school board issue (again).
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The Wrong Burris
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.