Progress Illinois

Here's The Reader's Ben Joravsky on the underlying reasons for Mayor Daley's insistence that the Chicago Children's Museum move to Grant Park:

Compared to the waste and destruction promised by the Olympics, the Children’s Museum is chump change. After all, the museum ...

Serving as a Chicago police officer is a difficult and thankless task. While 95 percent of our police officers are hardworking and decent people who struggle to do their job well, a very small percentage engage in conduct that disgraces their department and fellow officers. ...

In a column posted here yesterday, Amisha Patel recounted the 2006 effort to pass a City Council ordinance requiring Chicago's "big box" retailers to pay a living wage. The measure was ultimately vetoed by Mayor Daley, but as Patel notes, the widespread mobilization ...