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The MAGA party
Please, Governor Pritzker, keep legislative mapmaking away from the Trump cultists in the GOP.
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Bad for your health
The city is still concealing many of the secrets regarding General Iron, Lincoln Yards, and Mayor Rahm.
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So outrageous
It’s hard to get outraged about the Steans-to-Cassidy handoff when Marjorie Taylor Greene’s on the scene.
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Celebrating Acero’s successful teachers’ strike—and the belated victory for Karen Lewis
Chicago’s City Council hates taking from the schools and giving to the rich but sometimes they do it anyway.
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Looks like Karen Lewis may have defeated Rahm after all
As I watched jubilant teachers, wearing union red, from the Acero charter school network celebrate the new contract they’d won after a four-day strike, I had a flashback to the way things used to be. The Chicago Teachers Unions were in the midst of their 2012 strike, which had shuttered all the public schools in […]
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The pattern to Rahm’s sexual predator, filthy schools, and special ed scandals
If anything points to the need for an elected CPS school board that’s independent of the mayor, this is it.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Reevaluating why you stay in Chicago can be therapeutic
As loved ones leave the city, consider the pros of sticking around.
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New Joe Maddon strategy comes out of left field
The Cubs’ manager orchestrates an extra-inning victory just as the not-time-to-panic stage was looming.
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Emanuel and Garcia trade tall tales as the mayoral runoff heads to its first debate
Which mayoral campaign is more untruthful? It’s debatable.
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Can North Lawndale win the Obama Presidential Library when the other team won’t play by the rules?
Team UIC goes up against Mayor Rahm’s team U. of C. in a series of public hearings.
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See ya next year, Mayor Rahm
Having apparently exhausted himself dispensing so much BS, Mayor Rahm heads off for a holiday, leaving the rest of us to get ready for Jesus Garcia’s January 6 appearance at the Hideout.
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Searching for the bright side to Bruce Rauner’s victory
Words I never thought I’d say—on the bright side, Speaker Madigan held on to his veto-proof majority.
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Buried a week ago by hometown sportswriters, the Bears rise from the dead
Rumors of the Bears demise were greatly exaggerated.