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Under this proposal, the people will elect the ruler, I mean mayor, and then they'll appoint almost everyone else.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Preserving the status quo

by Ben Joravsky June 3, 2021August 18, 2021

A modest proposal to turn Chicago into more of a boss-o-cracy than it already is

Civilized debate at a neutral site like the statehouse? Nope. MAGA would rather take this outside. These are not the folks we want drawing our legislative maps.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The MAGA party

by Ben Joravsky March 24, 2021August 18, 2021

Please, Governor Pritzker, keep legislative mapmaking away from the Trump cultists in the GOP.

Can you believe researchers found “poor air quality” around this picturesque site?
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Bad for your health

by Ben Joravsky March 10, 2021August 18, 2021

The city is still concealing many of the secrets regarding General Iron, Lincoln Yards, and Mayor Rahm.

Confession time: I’m having trouble conjuring up any outrage over Steans (middle) handing off her state senate seat to Cassidy (right).
Posted inColumns & Opinion

So outrageous

by Ben Joravsky February 3, 2021August 18, 2021

It’s hard to get outraged about the Steans-to-Cassidy handoff when Marjorie Taylor Greene’s on the scene.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Celebrating Acero’s successful teachers’ strike—and the belated victory for Karen Lewis

by Ben Joravsky December 18, 2018August 18, 2021

Chicago’s City Council hates taking from the schools and giving to the rich but sometimes they do it anyway.

Posted inBlogs

Looks like Karen Lewis may have defeated Rahm after all

by Ben Joravsky December 17, 2018August 18, 2021

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 […]

Posted inBlogs

The pattern to Rahm’s sexual predator, filthy schools, and special ed scandals

by Ben Joravsky June 8, 2018August 18, 2021

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

by Laura Pearson June 22, 2017August 18, 2021

As loved ones leave the city, consider the pros of sticking around.

Posted inBlogs

New Joe Maddon strategy comes out of left field

by Steve Bogira June 29, 2016August 18, 2021

The Cubs’ manager orchestrates an extra-inning victory just as the not-time-to-panic stage was looming.

Posted inBlogs

Emanuel and Garcia trade tall tales as the mayoral runoff heads to its first debate

by Steve Bogira March 16, 2015August 18, 2021

Which mayoral campaign is more untruthful? It’s debatable.

Posted inBlogs

Can North Lawndale win the Obama Presidential Library when the other team won’t play by the rules?

by Ben Joravsky January 13, 2015August 18, 2021

Team UIC goes up against Mayor Rahm’s team U. of C. in a series of public hearings.

Posted inBlogs

See ya next year, Mayor Rahm

by Ben Joravsky December 19, 2014August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

Searching for the bright side to Bruce Rauner’s victory

by Ben Joravsky November 5, 2014August 18, 2021

Words I never thought I’d say—on the bright side, Speaker Madigan held on to his veto-proof majority.

Posted inBlogs

Buried a week ago by hometown sportswriters, the Bears rise from the dead

by Steve Bogira September 15, 2014August 18, 2021

Rumors of the Bears demise were greatly exaggerated.

Posted inBlogs

Putting the best face on the Bears’ loss

by Steve Bogira September 8, 2014August 18, 2021

Don’t bury the Bears just yet.

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