With two aldermen indicted on just one day, Chicago proves it’s second to none when it comes to corruption.
Tag: Richard J. Daley
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The murder Chicago didn’t want to solve
In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Clues suggest the murder was a professional hit. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.
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Real Chicago
The scariest thing about our city is how our political system works.
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Get me rewrite!
Aaron Sorkin rewrites Chicago history to help beat Trump.
Posted inNews & Politics
From soldier to worker
Police unions were born of resistance to discipline for brutality. Do they belong in the labor movement?
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Panic peddlers
Centrist Dems are using the 1972 election to scare voters away from Bernie.
Posted inArts & Culture
Her Honor Jane Byrne remembers when the mayor moved to Cabrini
Lookingglass produces the first in J. Nicole Brooks’s planned quartet of Chicago plays.
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Sensei Barnett
Richard Barnett fought the machine and taught a rookie reporter about Chicago politics.
Posted inMusic
The gospel according to Mama Lou
Lou Della Evans-Reid spent nearly 40 years as minister of music for Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, but even at age 89 this gospel trailblazer isn’t done spreading the good news.
Posted inArts & Culture
A ‘freaking fag revolutionary’ remembers the early years of gay liberation in Chicago
And a new exhibit at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives provides the visual aids.
Posted inBlogs
Archive dive: the year 1971 in review
A look at the best, worst, and most memorable moments from the Reader‘s first year in business.
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Fifty years ago, 35,000 Chicago students walked out of their classrooms in protest. They changed CPS forever.
Among their demands: black and Latino teachers and administrators, ethnic studies classes and clubs, and bilingual education
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Once a street gang, then a political collective, the Young Lords celebrate 50 years with a symposium at DePaul
“We’re not from Humboldt Park or Lincoln Park, we’re Puerto Ricans.”
Posted inBlogs
With Bill Daley running for mayor, it’s good to remember what happened the last time we turned Chicago over to the Daleys
The son of Richard J. and brother of Richard M. thinks it’s his turn.
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Protests and blaming the media—sound familiar? That was during the ’68 Democratic National Convention
Archived letters to former Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley bring up familiar concerns about unrest, policing, political divisions, and “propaganda.”