Best candidate for mayor who is likely to run
Undecided It’s a real problem for all of us that so much attention is being paid to attempts to force Rahm Emanuel off the ballot over the residency issue. Most thinking Chicagoans would agree that he...
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“Read Between The Lines” One of the many gifts the former Representative, Freddie Mac board member, investment banker and White House Chief of Staff is known for is a capacity for profane bluster. He’s...
View ArticleBest sign that Rahm is not Richie
The return of the Queen’s Landing crosswalk The Daley administration made a number of anti-pedestrian “dick moves” in a losing battle against auto congestion: fencing off crosswalks on Michigan Avenue,...
View ArticleBest of Chicago 2011: Letter from the Editor
All for the best It’s less than a year since the farewell that changed the face of the city, the visage we’d shown the world for a generation, and it already feels like a different town, doesn’t it?...
View ArticleBest opening paragraph of an imaginary staff memo from Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Dearest Motherfuckers, You make my daily life possible and you sometimes make it misery. I am grateful. I am blessed. Young, bright, inventive, tolerant, understanding, flexible, ever-seeing, never...
View ArticleBest part of the 2012 Chicago Cultural Plan most likely to actually happen
The return of art education to the public schools And indeed this has already happened, flanked by Yo-Yo Ma and Renee Fleming at a buzz-generating press conference, Rahm Emanuel announced an additional...
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