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Home » Richard J. Daley

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When it comes to corruption, folks, Chicago is hands-down (or handcuffs up?) a champion.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

We’re number one!

by Ben Joravsky May 5, 2021August 18, 2021

With two aldermen indicted on just one day, Chicago proves it’s second to none when it comes to corruption.

Posted inNews & Politics

The murder Chicago didn’t want to solve

by Mick Dumke March 2, 2021August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Real Chicago

by Ben Joravsky November 18, 2020August 18, 2021

The scariest thing about our city is how our political system works.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Get me rewrite!

by Ben Joravsky October 21, 2020August 18, 2021

Aaron Sorkin rewrites Chicago history to help beat Trump.

Posted inNews & Politics

From soldier to worker

by Maya Dukmasova June 10, 2020August 18, 2021

Police unions were born of resistance to discipline for brutality. Do they belong in the labor movement?

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Panic peddlers

by Ben Joravsky March 4, 2020August 18, 2021

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

by Catey Sullivan January 22, 2020August 18, 2021

Lookingglass produces the first in J. Nicole Brooks’s planned quartet of Chicago plays.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Sensei Barnett

by Ben Joravsky January 15, 2020August 18, 2021

Richard Barnett fought the machine and taught a rookie reporter about Chicago politics.

Posted inMusic

The gospel according to Mama Lou

by F. Amanda Tugade October 9, 2019August 18, 2021

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

by Albert Williams June 12, 2019August 18, 2021

And a new exhibit at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives provides the visual aids.

Posted inBlogs

Archive dive: the year 1971 in review

by Brianna Wellen December 17, 2018August 18, 2021

A look at the best, worst, and most memorable moments from the Reader‘s first year in business.

Posted inNews & Politics

Fifty years ago, 35,000 Chicago students walked out of their classrooms in protest. They changed CPS forever.

by Annie Howard October 4, 2018August 18, 2021

Among their demands: black and Latino teachers and administrators, ethnic studies classes and clubs, and bilingual education

Posted inNews & Politics

Once a street gang, then a political collective, the Young Lords celebrate 50 years with a symposium at DePaul

by Kerry Cardoza September 21, 2018August 18, 2021

“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

by Ben Joravsky September 17, 2018August 18, 2021

The son of Richard J. and brother of Richard M. thinks it’s his turn.

Posted inNews & Politics

Protests and blaming the media—sound familiar? That was during the ’68 Democratic National Convention

by Mick Dumke August 21, 2018August 18, 2021

Archived letters to former Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley bring up familiar concerns about unrest, policing, political divisions, and “propaganda.”

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