Tag: Vol. 40 No. 10

Why won’t the last residents of Cabrini-Green budge? Depends on who you ask.

Civil unions bill passes the House, is expected to pass in the Senate. Update: Oh win: State Rep. Ron Stephens (R-Decatur), the first to stand in opposition, suggests that the Greek and Roman civilizations fell because of “open homosexuality.” Honestly. His Visigoth-anti-immigration bill remains stalled in committee.

Chicagoland gets a pounding in the latest Case/Schiller index.

TIFs and property taxes: stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

On oral histories, corporate media, and the financial crisis.