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Showing posts with label Adlai Stevenson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adlai Stevenson. Show all posts
Friday, February 12, 2010

Illinois celebrates the "important" president's day on Friday

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Friday marks the day when it has been 201 years since the birth of Abraham Lincoln. It also marks the one-week point since the first offici...
Friday, February 5, 2010

Honoring Stevenson II in Ill.

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Part of it was rhetoric. Part of it was pure idealism that didn’t reflect reality. After all, Adlai E. Stevenson II was a man who got his st...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Go watch Obama in action while political payback takes place at City Hall

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Barack Obama is truly like Adlai Stevenson in one respect. The regular Democratic organization that dominates Chicago’s politics wants us to...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Will Todd Stroger get I-57 some day?

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For those who are curious about every form of trivia, the namesakes of Chicago’s expressways are as follows: Jane Addams – First U.S. woman...
Wednesday, March 5, 2008

When does Obama cease to be a Chicagoan?

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Barack Obama may be Chicago’s “hometown politico” in whom we show some pride for making a serious run for president, but I wonder how much l...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Adlai 'successor' may be Hillary, not Obama

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It has become a stock column for political pundits to grind out if they are in a pinch for some copy – Barack Obama is too intellectual to b...
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I am a Chicago-area freelance writer who has reported on various political and legal beats. I wrote "Hispanic" issues columns for United Press International, observed up close the Statehouse Scene in Springfield, Ill., the Cook County Board in Chicago and municipal government in places like Calumet City, Ill., and Gary, Ind. For a time, I also wrote about agriculture. Trust me when I say the symbolic stench of partisan politics (particularly when directed against people due to their ethnicity) is far nastier than any odor that could come from a farm animal.
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