As Cyntha Brim, poster-judge for the failures of our judicial retention system, goes to trial this week on charges of misdemeanor battery, state rep Kelly Cassidy introduces reforms that would focus voters on the borderline judges.
After leaving office, the former mayor hasn’t followed in the footsteps of big-city mayoral peers like Rudy Giuliani and Ed Koch, choosing to speak softly—or not at all—and build a big resume.
For a couple years in the 1950s, the hamburgers many Chicagoans consumed were as much horse as cow—up to 40 percent. The Syndicate worked a rich arbitrage of cultural taboos, at least until they got caught and horse meat dominated the headlines for a year.
On January 17, I had the chance to watch the MacArthur “genius” Jeanne Gang flip through a PowerPoint of her recent and forthcoming urban design projects…
It’s well known that a portion of high-profile ambassadorships (around 30 percent, usually) go to big-money donors or powerful friends of the president. And two Penn State profs have calculated, broadly, how much it costs and where each is likely to go. But Chicago’s Louis Susman proves that you can get there by being a bit of both.
The reassignment of desk cops to patrol includes a strengthening of “saturation units,” a compromise strategy between the CPD’s old, controversial gang-strike units and McCarthy’s philosophy of community policing.
Does it have too much parking? Too little? Is it too much like its neighbors… or too much like towers in Spain, Chile, Abu Dhabi, and China? Developing one of Chicago’s most significant and most underused plots of land is, and will be, a fraught process.
Barack Obama owes longtime friend and fundraiser Penny Pritzker a great deal, going back to his days as an obscure state senator. 2008 wasn’t the right time to include her in his cabinet, for a host of reasons, but he’s got a lot more political capital in 2012, and much less to lose.
A job doing research and development for the Cubs has opened up, working alongside new hire and sabermetrics expert Tom Tango—who explodes the Bartman myth with the Leverage Index.
Aside from the obvious sources—nearby counties and states that don’t have Chicago’s history of strict gun laws—a surprising number of guns come up north from the Delta into the city, a current dilemma overlaying the old tracks of history.
