Beavers: ‘I Paid All My Taxes’
After decades of defending political patronage and boasting of back-room deals, Cook County Commissioner William Beavers (D-Chicago) on Thursday joined the long list of local elected officials who have...
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A Daughter’s Devotion
This gallery chronicles Ellen Goode’s 12 months of giving care to her dying mother. © SALLY RYAN for Chicago News Cooperative, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags:
View ArticleInactive State Committees Costly
Lawmakers in the Illinois House earned an extra $661,000 last year for serving as committee officers, even though some committees met fewer than five times and a handful met once, a Chicago News...
View ArticleWarren: Loud Schools Debate Misses Mark
Passions inevitably dissolve into languor at Chicago School Board meetings, as the bureaucratic lords encounter their citizen minions during hours of faux democracy. So it was good to have a cameo...
View ArticleCouncil’s “Sarge” on Plan to Quiet Meetings
In her windowless office behind the City Council chamber, Christina Pacheco Butler displays a black nightstick presented to her when she became the council’s sergeant at arms nine years ago. Butler...
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Homeless Immigrants Alone, Adrift
One said goodbye, embracing his anxious parents. One left without a word, indignant and angry. After traveling thousands of miles by bus, train and on foot, the two young men met in a homeless shelter...
View ArticleWarren: Posner Ponders Yet Again
Imagine going to a karaoke bar and having an academic conference break out. It’s almost how I felt last week as a very attractive woman, attired in a tight and very short gray dress, attempted a...
View ArticleMcGrath: Weber Out Of Answers
Bill Walsh was acclaimed as a silver-haired coaching genius for collecting three N.F.L. championships and compiling a .612 winning percentage in 10 seasons running the San Francisco 49ers. An...
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Leo Track Running Despite Hurdles
In sports, it’s about numbers. Leo High School won their latest track and field state title last May by one point. This marked the school’s sixth state championship. When Leo won its first state title...
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Without Facilities, State Champs Make Due
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