When President Joe Biden’s administration last week announced the award of $2 million to help “reconnect” Chicago neighborhoods torn apart by massive expressway construction since the 1950s and ’60s, my first reaction was, “It’s about time.” That was followed by a question: How are they going to do it? Two million dollars doesn’t sound like much in this age of trillion-dollar budgets. But, as .
CHICAGO — Generations of Chicagoans accustomed to grimy politics might view former Ald. Ed Burke’s federal racketeering conviction last week as just another case in a long conga line of crooked aldermen. But Burke was an undisputed Democratic kingpin. He not only set a record for serving 54 years in the City Council, but he departed in May as the last alderman who rose to power in the era of .
Generations of Chicagoans accustomed to grimy politics might view former Ald. Ed Burke’s federal racketeering conviction last week as just another case in a long conga line of crooked aldermen. But Burke was an undisputed Democratic kingpin. He not only set a record for serving 54 years in the City Council, but he departed in May as the last alderman who rose to power in the era of Mayor .
Mayor Richard J. Daley cried. We don’t see this but rather are told about it in the first of the eight episodes in WTTW-Ch. 11′s “Chicago Stories” season which begins this weekend, with each episode available in coming weeks for streaming and embellished by companion material. “Angels Too Soon: The School Fire of ‘58″ is a detailed and arresting retelling of what took place before, during and .
Former House Speaker Mike Madigan, who is set to stand trial on federal racketeering charges next April, is relinquishing his final remaining and longest-held elected office, Democratic committeeman for the 13th ward. His protege, 13th Ward Ald. Marty Quinn, confirmed Madigan was not running for the committee position and said that he planned “to circulate petitions (for the post) and see how .