Since the start of calendar year 2014, unions have contributed more than $50,000 to Hairston’s PAC, enough to compensate for her lack of access to the funding of Mayor Emanuel’s Chicago Forward PAC—a super PAC aimed at supporting the administration’s most loyal aldermen.
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Front Page 12/05/14
Comics | Features | Music Education Plans to Expand What the mayor’s plan for more pre-K means locally by Olivia Myszkowski “If we want to continue making progress, we have to start in the earliest years of a child’s life,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel pronounced emphatically before a packed chamber on October 15, as part of […]
Divvy for Everyone?
Hyde Park presents one of the most encouraging examples for Divvy expansion on the South Side
Front Page for 11/05/14
Activism | Police We Charge Genocide Activists allege torture in a report to the U.N. by Hannah Nyhart Dominique Franklin, “Damo” to friends, was twenty-three-years-old when he died. He spent the last two weeks of his life in a coma at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after being tased multiple times by a Chicago police officer. Witnesses, […]
Sketches from the UCPD Community Forum
Editor’s note: Rep. Christian Mitchell was in attendance to speak about racial profiling he’d witnessed by the UCPD, in support of the Coalition for Equitable Policing.
Front Page 10/29/14
Features | Politics Voting to Be Heard As Republicans court the black vote, South Side pastors endorse to send a message by John Gamino Faith Picking Up Peace Fierce Women of Faith advocate nonviolence by Bess Cohen Labor | Oral History Victor Storino, Steelworker, 73 by Harrison Smith “Your clothes sometimes were so greasy that […]