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By Scott Gordon
The news last week about a dramatic increase in “slow zones” on the CTA’s El tracks was just the latest in a year of discontent for frustrated riders tired of the transportation agency’s seeming inability to run a train system. Here is a rundown of the continuing problems on each of the CTA’s color-coded routes – and the solutions advocates are pressing for.
Posted on September 22, 2006
By Steve Rhodes
Who says Mayor Daley has lost control of the City Council? His veto of the big-box ordinance has turned at least a few aldermen back into the quivering cowards we always knew they were.
Posted on September 12, 2006
By Kiljoong Kim
In August 2005, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell posed the question, “Where do poor white people live?” While the question may sound simple, it leads to complex issues about race, class, and how we think about social space. For many decades, being poor in a metropolitan area has been synonymous with being black, just as being poor in a rural areas has mostly meant being white. Of course, this cannot be wholly true. Poor blacks live in the country, too. Rich blacks live in the city. Rich whites live in the country. Mitchell’s question is perhaps the most obscure of these combinations: Where do poor white people in the Chicago area live?
Posted on September 11, 2006
By Steve Rhodes
In sentencing George Ryan to a relatively light six-and-half-years in prison yesterday, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer called the former governor “a complicated man.”
As John Kass writes this morning, “Ryan is as complicated as butt steak and eggs at 4 a.m. after a long night at the casinos . . . ”
In fact, George Ryan is the most uncomplicated governor of Illinois in recent history, and one of its most uncomplicated pols of stature of all time.
Posted on September 7, 2006
