A jaunt through the 13th Ward reveals a political landscape long gone from the rest of Chicago.
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Pro tip for mayoral hopefuls: Don’t govern by press release, do sweat the small stuff
Many Chicagoans never felt that Rahm Emanuel was their mayor.
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Magnolia Screen Printing wants to provide jobs for the young people of Chicago Lawn
Omar Kamran and Justin Clemons hope to grow something beautiful and lasting in their neighborhood.
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Inauguration barhopping in Chicago’s most pro-Trump neighborhood
Down the political rabbit hole to Mount Greenwood on the city’s far south side
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Dispatch from Chicago’s Trumplandia
At the polls with Chicago’s anti-establishment southwest siders
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Former LeClaire Courts residents are still fighting to go home
The CHA promised right of return. But seven years later the land is still undeveloped.
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Black and Latino areas still bearing the brunt of city job cuts
South-side workers account for three of every four jobs cut by the city since Mayor Rahm Emanuel took office in 2011.
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City sheds hundreds more jobs in black and Hispanic neighborhoods
Black and Hispanic neighborhoods bear the brunt of Mayor Emanuel’s belt tightening
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City job cuts hit black and Hispanic neighborhoods hardest
City job cuts hit black and Hispanic neighborhoods hardest
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To Serve and Uproot
If my dad were still alive, I know how he’d have decided who to back for alderman in his southwest-side ward this year. He’d have read up on privatization and charter schools and all the other important citywide issues. Then he’d have voted for whoever he thought would fix the sunken manhole on his street, […]