At back-to-back forums last week 11 candidates fielded questions and even provided some answers.
Tag: President Barack Obama
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Blackhawks celebrate Stanley Cup victory at the White House, 64-year-old serial airplane stowaway arrested at O’Hare, and other Chicago news
Also, Donald Trump’s Chicago property tax break is questioned, and the Bulls’ Pau Gasol stays in Chicago.
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Bernie Sanders opens a campaign office in Chicago, the best and worst of the Wrigleyville McDonald’s, and other Chicago news
Also, David Axelrod recounts an interesting encounter with the late Antonin Scalia, and shots are fired at snowplow driver on the west side.
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A bus tour stops by polluted Altgeld Gardens
For more than 30 years, residents of the south-side housing project—called the “toxic doughnut”—have been fighting for environmental justice.
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In reelecting Rahm, the people—and $26 million—have spoken
How money bought lots of love in Chicago’s first mayoral runoff
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Now it’s time for the real mayoral debate
As Rahm and Chuy prepare to do battle in the runoff election, the candidates are going to have to talk about a few pressing issues, whether they want to or not.
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Obama once again comes to Rahm’s rescue
The president endorses the mayor in a radio spot.
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Mayor Rahm does his best Richard Nixon
Mayor Rahm Emanuel takes a stand against recreational marijuana in an appeal to Chicago’s non-existent “Silent Majority.”
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Mayor Rahm doles out $60 million in TIF funds to build Barack Obama high school
Mayor Emanuel takes a page out of the Mayor Daley playbook.
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Mayor Rahm and the minimum wage
What the heck is Mayor Rahm up to with his proposal to raise the minimum wage to $9.25 an hour?
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Chicago’s black voters wake up with a Mayor Rahm hangover
Black voters in Chicago are realizing that the policies of Mayor Emanuel are not quite what they voted for.
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Dr. Obama Jekyll to Mr. Joe Walsh Hyde: One man’s property tax transformation
There’s nothing like a property tax bill to turn a mild-mannered liberal into a raging Tea Party advocate. And the next installment could be even worse.
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Richard Blanco’s inaugural poem: One sky, one ground, millions of faces
The text of Richard Blanco’s inaugural poem
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Steve Musgrave’s portrait of Obama and friends
The Chicago Public Library unveils Steve Musgrave’s portrait of President Barack Obama, with a key to his friends.
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Mayor Rahm emancipates himself on guns
Emanuel’s recent Sun-Times column leaves out an essential detail about the war against guns: he was missing in action when he could have done something to help wage it