Wall Street-backed firms are duping would-be homebuyers, 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. and west-side activists fought against housing discrimination.
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Report: Wall Street made more than $110 million on recently purchased CPS bonds, and other Chicago news
Also, the city is finally accepting proposals for developing the Michael Reese Hospital site.
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In Equity, the women on Wall Street are as bad as the men
The knives come out in this financial thriller about three ambitious professionals.
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If Donald Trump’s Chicago rally was Altamont, Bernie Sanders’s was Woodstock
“Love trumps hate” at Bernie Sanders’s rally at the Auditorium Theatre.
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More money for Wall Street, more problems for Chicago’s schools
Instead of finding ways to improve our credit risk, the mayor’s council allies bury a TIF investigation.
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The Big Short nails the culprits of the 2008 financial crisis—and you’re one of them
Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, and Christian Bale star in this adaptation of the Michael Lewis best seller.
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Mayor Rahm channels his inner Karl Marx
As long as Mayor Rahm’s daring to criticize the bond raters, he’s should start playing hardball with the lenders who stand to profit from Chicago’s economic crisis.
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Oscar-nominated documentary shorts: Hard times in NYC in Redemption
Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill’s Redemption looks at New York’s can and bottle collectors.
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The invasion of the Chicago Humanities Festival
The Chicago Humanities Festival presents its fall schedule of lectures, panels, and performances
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I’ll tune in when I’m done zoning out
When it comes to politics, I’m virtually as active as the next person
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Dicking around on Wall Street
Dismantling Gabriel Sherman’s “The Emasculation of Wall Street”
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The President’s ménage à trois
Running a country is tough—keeping your two partners happy is even tougher.
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Mayor Emanuel is transparent about plans to keep his meeting schedule secret
For some reason Mayor Emanuel became a bit testy when Fox Chicago asked him last week about his habit of finding time to meet with big donors and wealthy Wall Street guys, which Ben Joravsky and I detailed in a Reader cover story. First of all, the mayor said (see the two-minute mark of this […]
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Bonus payouts at newspapers, and what they might say about the Occupy protests
What executive corruption at newspapers reveals about the Occupy protests.