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'The Blues Brothers' came out in June 1980. Is there a better Chicago movie? Not for me
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 days ago“Chicago is like ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ if you’re rich,” one local musician observed, “and it’s...
Chicago mayor announces reparations ‘task force’
Courthouse News Service· 5 days agoWindy City Mayor Brandon Johnson signed a municipal executive order on Monday to establish a “Reparations Task Force...to develop a Black Reparations...
Is the Chicago Skyway overcharging users? Lawsuit seeks $3 million in refunds on tolls
NBC Chicago· 1 day agoWilmette contractor Rocky Rowe has used the Chicago Skyway for 20 years — at least 150 times over...
Jim Dey: Campaign funds helping Chicago mayor to look good
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJun. 17—Check out Chicago's new mayor. He's sporting an expensive, if not necessarily improved, new look. That's because Mayor Brandon ...
The Rundown: A Chicago first: school board ballot shaping up
WBEZ 91.5 Chicago· 5 days agoAfter more than a decade of lobbying, years of negotiation and months of sorting out the logistics,...
State Sen. Harris has a clear conflict of interest that should be outlawed
Chicago Sun-Times· 12 hours agoWalk into any neighborhood bar, and someone is likely to be complaining that all politicians are...
Mayor’s migrant plan dissed
Politico· 4 days agoDetails here MONDAY’s ANSWER: Congrats to Stephen Sadin for correctly answering that Earl Bush once told the Chicago City Hall press corps that when covering Mayor ...
60 years ago: King and Hesburgh sang 'We Shall Overcome.' Days later, the world changed.
South Bend Tribune· 3 days ago"So here we have the top civic and religious leaders not going to the march, and I thought that was...
At the Newberry Library and on stage, the return of Mike Royko
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWas Mike Royko the toughest man in Chicago? We shall see, I suppose, when a one-man play opens here in early September at the Chopin Theatre. Mitchell Bisschop is the author ...
Work about to begin on long-awaited Red Line Extension on Chicago's South Side
CBS News· 3 days agoAs the CTA prepares to extend the Red Line south to 130th Street, people who live on the Far South...