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Home » Tenth Ward

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Posted inBlogs

East Side residents enraged by manganese pollution tear into city and federal officials

by Maya Dukmasova May 11, 2018August 18, 2021

“Half-assed everything, that’s what we get.”

Posted inColumns & Opinion

How Governor Rauner is weaponizing the Illinois tax hike

by Ben Joravsky July 11, 2017August 18, 2021

He’s emerged from the budget crisis with a convenient cudgel in the run-up to the 2018 election.

Posted inNews & Politics

The new Ed Vrdolyak is nothing like the old one

by Ben Joravsky July 20, 2016August 18, 2021

Tenth Ward alderman Sue Sadlowski Garza is cultivating a new kind of progressive power on Chicago’s southeast side.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Why won’t Mayor Rahm grant Alderman Sue Garza unpaid leave from CPS?

by Ben Joravsky June 1, 2016August 18, 2021

Cops, firefighters, and other city employees get to take unpaid leave if they’re elected.

Posted inBlogs

Chain of protesters arrested in a blockade of Koch brothers-controlled pet coke facility

by Robin Amer November 16, 2015August 18, 2021

Environmentalists have escalated efforts to force the oil by-product out of Chicago.

Posted inBlogs

Who’s going to win the mayoral election?

by Ben Joravsky March 27, 2015August 18, 2021

Desperate to figure out who’s going to win the mayoral showdown between Chuy and Rahm, we turn to, of all things, a classroom poll of fifth-graders from a public school on the northwest side.

Posted inBlogs

Six challengers battle Alderman John Pope in ‘forgotten’ Tenth Ward

by Juanita Barajas February 23, 2015August 18, 2021

Opponents of Alderman John Pope, a mayoral loyalist, say he’s neglected his far southeast-side ward.

Posted inBlogs

Faced with a cop shortage, some officials look to private policing

by Mick Dumke August 25, 2011August 19, 2021

Among the questions Chatham residents had for police Superintendent Garry McCarthy at a community forum Saturday was one asked by a lot of people around the city: “Are you going to hire more police?” As another resident went on to explain: “We don’t have much of a police presence here. And crime is spreading to […]

M&M Windjammer Marina, owned by Mike Olsen (pictured)
Posted inNews & Politics

Clout on the Calumet River

by Ben Joravsky October 29, 2009August 19, 2021

Marina owner Mike Olsen has reason to fear the city will force him out of business to the benefit of his competition.

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