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05/20/13

Desiree Rogers Is Making a Comeback

After crashing as the White House social secretary, the well-connected Chicagoan returned to run Johnson Publishing Company—and now she's working with Rahm Emanuel again as the chair of Choose Chicago, the city's big tourism nonprofit.

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05/15/13

Jesse Jackson Junior Wouldn't Be Disgraced Now If He'd Just Followed the Advice in His Own Book

The congressman and his famous father once wrote how average Americans should manage their money. It's good advice. The Jacksons could've used it.

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05/13/13

Pat Brady Holds Nothing Back in a Frank Q&A

The outgoing leader of Illinois's Republican party has a few parting shots on the GOP's policies, politicians, and its chances of success in 2014.

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05/06/13

Anthony Beale: The Alderman With the Grounds-Eye View of the Payton-Brooks Controversy

The 9th Ward alderman volunteers for the Roseland baseball field where Walter Payton Prep parents reportedly didn't want to send their kids to play.

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05/02/13

The Homicide Numbers Sound Good, But Hold the Champagne

Those falling numbers don’t tell the whole story about Chicago's random, pervasive, endless gun violence.

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05/02/13

Why Penny Pritzker’s Commerce Secretary Confirmation Hearing Won’t Be Easy

Pritzker's past, from Chicago schools to the sub-prime mortgage mess, won't make it fun. But it could be much worse.

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04/25/13

Rachel Shteir Got It Right, Says a Veteran Chicago Journalist

Joseph Weber, a former Chicago Bureau Chief for BusinessWeek, once edited a Chicago-challenging cover story that got a similar knee-jerk local reaction.

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04/23/13

Rachel Shteir Defends Her Anti-Chicago Essay in a Rare Q&A

Shteir’s recent New York Times story rankled all of Chicago—Rahm included. Now, for the first time since the article’s publication, the local professor and author answers the criticism.

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04/19/13

Henry Bienen on the Ups and Downs of Serving on the CPS Board

The academic, a friend of the mayor, talks about school closings, charter schools, and the health of American public schools.

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04/15/13

Austan Goolsbee: Back in Hyde Park, But Still Fighting for the White House

The former Obama economic advisor on why job-creation predictions are so wrong so often, being friends with Sean Hannity, and Rahm's Asian carp obsession.

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05/20/13

Desiree Rogers Is Making a Comeback

05/15/13

Jesse Jackson Junior Wouldn't Be Disgraced Now If He'd Just Followed the Advice in His Own Book

05/13/13

Pat Brady Holds Nothing Back in a Frank Q&A

05/06/13

Anthony Beale: The Alderman With the Grounds-Eye View of the Payton-Brooks Controversy

05/02/13

The Homicide Numbers Sound Good, But Hold the Champagne

05/02/13

Why Penny Pritzker’s Commerce Secretary Confirmation Hearing Won’t Be Easy

04/25/13

Rachel Shteir Got It Right, Says a Veteran Chicago Journalist

04/23/13

Rachel Shteir Defends Her Anti-Chicago Essay in a Rare Q&A

04/19/13

Henry Bienen on the Ups and Downs of Serving on the CPS Board

04/15/13

Austan Goolsbee: Back in Hyde Park, But Still Fighting for the White House

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