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Open thread: Weeks in review
Change of SubjectThe "Weeks in Review" feature is now an open thread in which commenters can talk about any current events or cultural phenomena that have caught their attention, including but not limited to the topics brought up in our traditional roundup...... -
Kirk, Rush to meet about controversial gang proposal
Tribune reportersSen. Mark Kirk's proposal for mass arrests of Chicago's Gangster Disciples triggered a small protest outside his Chicago office on Monday just as Rep. Bobby Rush — who dismissed the plan as an "upper-middle-class, elitist white-boy solution" —...Tags: Organized Crime, Dick Durbin, Bobby Rush, Dwayne Johnson, WTTW
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Weeks in review
Change of SubjectThe "Weeks in Review" feature is now an open thread in which commenters can talk about any current events or cultural phenomena that have caught their attention, including but limited to the topics brought up in our traditional roundup of...... -
Profiles in humbug: Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon on pension reform
Change of SubjectHere's a transcript of an exchange between WTTW-Ch. 11's Carol Marin and Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon Monday on "Chicago Tonight." (video link) Carol Marin: Pension reform. Do you have a favorite bill? One that you are pushing? Sheila Simon: My...... -
Common sense locked out in Cook County Jail dispute
Something extremely odd happened in the Cook County criminal court system in November: Suddenly, and without notice or explanation, judges all but stopped ordering pretrial detainees to be released on electronic home monitoring. Records show that from...
Tags: Judges, Timothy Evans, Toni Preckwinkle, Electronics, WTTW
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Open thread: The weeks in review
Change of SubjectLast week was fairly successful when I announced that, going forward, "Weeks in Review" posts will also serve as an open comment thread on news events of the past week that either didn't get discussed on the blog or didn't...... -
Dart v. Evans v. Preckwinkle
Change of SubjectOriginally published April 17; moved to the top of the blog because it's the subject of my Friday print column. I've been meaning to get to this extraordinary spat on "Chicago Tonight" earlier this month. WTTW-Ch. 11 invited Cook County...... -
CPS mishandles 'Persepolis' ban
Censure de Persepolis: Inapproprié dans les écoles de Chicago That headline in a Paris-based literary publication Monday indicates just how far and fast the controversy that broke late last week at Lane Tech College Prep High School has spread....
Tags: Libraries, Education, Arts and Culture, Fiction, The Washington Post
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Opera in Focus: Puppets and opera come together
It's the damnedest thing: Justin Snyder, his long hair parted down the middle, his head thrown back as though communing with a higher power, the hood of his hoodie grazing the floor, his mouth working silently in time with the strains and surges of an...
Tags: Home Alone (movie), Politics, Rolling Meadows, Restaurants, Services and Shopping
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Crafting gun laws without the likes of …
"This is a serious time," said the fundamentally unserious former Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh during an interview on WTTW-Ch. 11's "Chicago Tonight" program last week. "My side — the side that believes in freedom and limited government; the...
Tags: Interior Policy, Rahm Emanuel, Elections, Abortion Issue, Chicago Mayor
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Walsh waters tree of grotesquery
Change of SubjectFor Sunday's print column I revised and expanded an earlier blog entry: “This is a serious time,” said the fundamentally unserious former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh during an interview on WTTW-Ch. 11’s “Chicago Tonight”... -
Joe Walsh fertilizes the tree of paranoia with the rhetoric of violent revolution
Change of SubjectFrom the end of Carol Marin's interview last night with former Illinois U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh on WTTW Ch. 11's "Chicago Tonight." Carol Marin: Among the things you've said -- and some of them are fairly explosive: "We may have......
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