Thursday, April 21, 2011

What does neighborhood resurgence mean? Or, remembering grandpa at work

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Wisconsin Steel, in its "glory" days Mayor Richard M. Daley was on his Neighborhood Appreciation Tour Wednesday and ventured to...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Adding to his political resume – Claypool “friend” picks him for CTA post

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It's good for Forrest to be the buddy ... He has been a Cook County commissioner, a Park District boss, a member of the county Board ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

EXTRA: Draw your own political map! It won’t be more ridiculous than real thing

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It is going to be interesting to see what comes out of the special rooms being set up both in Chicago and Springfield where people with an i...

Here’s hoping people don’t read more into Pulitzer prizes than they’re worth

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First, let me state my congratulations to the three reporter-type people for the Chicago Sun-Times who took that newspaper’s first Pulitzer ...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Should Rod listen to Rob?

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For some two-plus decades, I have covered legal proceedings in assorted criminal trials, and I have come to the conclusion that I don’t thin...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Obama caught in the act of being honest

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OBAMA: Speaking the truth? Perhaps it is something about setting foot in the Chicago metropolitan area that brings out the ability of pol...
Friday, April 15, 2011

A soccer “school” in Chicago? Maybe we are that desperate to boost school quality

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A part of me wants to think that the United Neighborhood Organization has come up with a truly dippy idea when it talks of wanting to create...