Incumbent alderman faces two challengers and a new hashtag.
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Here’s hoping that the myth of the bad teacher is finally laid to rest
Even Mayor 1 Percent is backpedaling away from his earlier support of charter schools and his refusal to
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City Council approves rideshare regulations
A victory for rideshare companies is a blow to the taxi industry.
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Black and Latino areas still bearing the brunt of city job cuts
South-side workers account for three of every four jobs cut by the city since Mayor Rahm Emanuel took office in 2011.
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Sarah Simmons shows different ways to honor Dr. Martin Luther King
At last week’s interfaith breakfast, a relatively unknown midwife’s interaction with the mayor honors Dr. King’s legacy.
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Mayor Rahm to Prosser High: Beat it!
Mayor Rahm’s so eager to fire more union teachers, he’s planning to stick a Noble Charter high school across the street from Prosser High—public safety be damned.
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City job policies are helping create two different and unequal Chicagos
A new report finds that thousands of jobs have disappeared from black and Latino areas as the city subsidizes the exodus.
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New Walmart subsidized with millions of taxpayer dollars—and some residents are thrilled
The largest corporation in the world is hailed in a neighborhood desperate for jobs.
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Show Us Your . . . arm-wrestling costume
Member of the Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers Bess Boswell’s outfit is a Walmart-bought children’s bee costume.
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Meet Langdon Neal, one of the insiders making deals to transform the face of Chicago
The lawyer, lobbyist, and election official who seems to be in the middle of every major political deal in Chicago
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Best Potential National Park
Pullman may become a national park, which would make it the second in Illinois, after Abraham Lincoln’s home in Springfield.
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In The Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg shows you can go home again
In The Middlesteins Jami Attenberg makes suburbia actually kind of soulful.
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The unfinished business of Richard M. Daley
First Son, details the accomplishments of Mayor Richard M. Daley—but it barely sets foot in Chicago.
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The underworld of raiteros
Little Village’s underworld of labor brokers, known as raiteros, take workers for a ride.
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Sun-Times kills off its food section
The Chicago Sun-Times kills off its food section.