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May 2019

May 21, 2019

Parsing Mayor Lightfoot’s Inaugural Address

Is it an inaugural address if it's given by a mayor rather than a president? ...

March 2019

March 26, 2019

Just when you think the Jussie Smollett case can’t make Chicago any more of a laughingstock . . .

In the news today at the Chicago Tribune (and pretty much everywhere else): "Mayor Emanuel...

February 2019

February 27, 2019

Mayor Santa Claus and other post-election thoughts

Chicago had a mayoral election last night. It was a very strange election (yes, 14...

February 18, 2019

It’s time for Chicago politics!

Are you following the mayoral election in Chicago? It's a crazy scenario, with 14 candidates,...

August 2018

August 09, 2018

74 shootings. No answer in sight.

So in the past month-ish Chicago has had two high-profile protests: the first on the...

June 2018

June 27, 2018

“At the corner of Wells and Wells” – huh?

It's comical -- to an extent. Here in Chicago, aldermen may not exercise much power...

May 2017

May 18, 2017

Chicago celebrates a terrorist

Yes, indeed, while on the one hand Chicago is fretting about violence on its streets,...

May 10, 2017

What’s the purpose of an aquarium?

Is it to educate and inform, that is, is there a public service mission, in...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Let’s pay to pee!

Yes, really. According to Steven Chapman's column in today's Tribune, Alderman David Moore has sponsored...

March 2017

March 04, 2017

Is Stop-and-Frisk the cure to Chicago’s gun violence?

That's what Bill Daley suggests in an opinion piece in the Tribune last Thursday. First,...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

“Separate and unequal” school-funding discrimination? Not so fast!

The Chicago Public Schools, and its CEO Forrest Claypool, in a long-running battle to get...

October 2016

October 20, 2016

In other news, your government at work, FMLA edition

This, from today's Chicago Tribune: "Emergency dispatchers using federal leave to get time off," and...

September 2016

September 14, 2016

Honor killings: not just for Muslims anymore

So some time ago, I read an article in The Atlantic, the main theme of...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

To fix Chicago’s murder rate, we need more famous people

No, I don't mean that we need more celebrities to come to Chicago and, well,...

May 2016

May 22, 2016

Dear Chicago: Be Kind to Tourists

AirBnB has been in the news in Chicago lately, with disputes about how to regulate residents...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

1.2 billion reasons why Rahm Emanuel — well, read on!

Here's an update on Chicago politics for non-locals. Two years ago, George Lucas announced that...

February 2015

February 12, 2015

What we’re missing about the Jackie Robinson West scandal

First of all, the reporting:Per the Chicago Tribune:Little League International stripped Jackie Robinson West of...