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Home » Organized labor

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Posted inNews & Politics

“Free the Reader!”

by Elly Boes, Grace Del Vecchio and 14 East Magazine April 28, 2022April 29, 2022

Staffers picketed Reader co-owner Leonard C. Goodman’s Lakeview home in support of the city’s oldest free alt-weekly.

Posted inBlogs

Joe Ricketts, DNAinfo, and the fearsomeness of labor

by Michael Miner November 6, 2017August 18, 2021

Unions give conservative billionaire Ricketts the willies.

Posted inBlogs

Some Democrats say Governor Rauner is ‘personable’ when he’s not gutting services for the poor and infirm

by Mick Dumke June 12, 2015August 18, 2021

Chicago elected officials who sat down with the governor say sweet talk only goes so far.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Mayor Rahm: The mayor for some of us

by Ben Joravsky September 17, 2013August 19, 2021

Kari Lydersen’s new book explains how Emanuel earned the nickname “Mayor 1 Percent.”

Keith Richardson, an activist who wants to renew the fight against crime and unemployment, plans to be part of the August 28 anniversary march in Washington.
Posted inNews & Politics

A new generation of activists fights injustice, from school cuts to Trayvon Martin

by Mick Dumke August 21, 2013August 19, 2021

March on Washington anniversary: A new generation of activists fights for change, from school cuts to Trayvon Martin.

Timuel Black was a 44-year-old teacher in Chicago when, in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. asked him to help organize the Chicago contingent for the March on Washington.
Posted inNews & Politics

Fifty years later, participants in the March on Washington still hoping for justice

by Steve Bogira and Mick Dumke August 21, 2013August 19, 2021

Organizers of the Chicago contingent in the 1963 March on Washington say it’s time for another movement.

Posted inNews & Politics

The mayor’s millionaire club

by Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke October 27, 2011August 19, 2021

Who has access to Rahm Emanuel’s inner sanctum

Posted inBlogs

Walmart Vote Delayed … Again

by Hunter Clauss June 2, 2010August 19, 2021

There won’t be a vote on another Chicago Walmart this week—a key alderman pulled it off the agenda for tomorrow’s meeting of the City Council zoning committee.

Posted inBlogs

The Wal-Mart option

by Mick Dumke February 17, 2009August 19, 2021

With other job and business options limited, aldermen talk about bringing more Wal-Marts to Chicago.

Posted inBlogs

Pat Quinn’s money

by Mick Dumke December 17, 2008August 19, 2021

Lieutenant governor Pat Quinn isn’t a Blago-level money machine, but he has his big financial supporters.

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