In November 2021, news broke that filled the Chicago house-music community with pride. Hometown house legends Ten City were nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance/Electronica Album for Judgement, their first full-length studio recording since 1994. Many Chicago fans remembered that around the time of the group’s formation in the mid-1980s, their producer, house pioneer […]
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Sasha Daltonn, jazz singer and founder of the Chicago Gospel Music Festival
“We weren’t only honoring Professor Dorsey—this was a major event introduced by the first Black mayor of the city, and it needed to be outstanding.”
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White Sox and Cubs are both 2-0 for first time since 1951
Martin Kennelly was mayor the last time both clubs won their first pair in the same season, 65 years ago.
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The mayoral runoff is going to be a shitstorm
Having embarrassed Rahm in yesterday’s election, Chicago’s voters can expect the mayor to go negative and nasty against Chuy Garcia in the coming campaign.
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How many Chicago mayors have graduated from a Chicago public high school?
Our mayors’ experience with CPS has rarely been firsthand.
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That time in ’77 Jane Byrne and I were on TV together
As a young, mop-topped lad of 22, the Reader political columnist was on WTTW . . .
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Chicago-style democracy endures under Mayor Emanuel
How did the city pick the Near North Side for Obama College Prep? The mayor’s office won’t discuss it.
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County clerk David Orr’s reform talk annoys another mayor
Cook County clerk David Orr’s reform proposals have been irritating mayors for 35 years.
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The lessons of Jane Byrne
Jane Byrne showed that an unknown on a kamikaze mission can end up winning the mayor’s office.
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With Jesse Jackson Jr. out of the way, who’s left to take on the Man?
Jesse Jackson Jr. leaves Chicago without independents
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Dread of what the oligarchs will try next
Lessons for Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers regarding Obama’s reelection
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Rahm’s secret snow job
Everyone talks about the weather. Chicago’s mayor is doing something about it.
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Taking the New Yorker for a Ride
The Chicago in Evan Osnos’s story is the Chicago you’d see out the window of the mayor’s limo.
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Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: An Island in the Swamp
For decades now, most of Chicago’s political independents have emerged from Hyde Park and Kenwood.