The Startups at 1871
What’s being made in Chicago right now? Meet some of the entrepreneurs occupying the five-month-old tech hub 1871, located in the Merchandise Mart and home to more than 160 startups.
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On the 'Winners' and 'Losers' in the Chicago Teachers Strike
Rahm Emanuel and Karen Lewis went head to head in labor negotiations unlike any the city had seen in years—because of changes within the union, in the economy, and City Hall. It’s a bit too early to fill out the scorecard.
More Chicago Public Schools Demographics
The patterns should be familiar if you’ve been following the city’s changes over the past decade: Hispanic students are now a (very slight) majority, African-American students have declined as both a percentage of enrollment and overall.
Poll Shows Substantial CPS Parent, Racial Divide on Chicago Teachers Strike
Another poll, conducted three days into the strike, again finds a majority in favor of the teachers—and substantial divides between CPS and non-CPS parents, which parallel the demographics of CPS students.
Bob Woodward's 'The Price of Politics' and Rahm's Behavior, Then and Now
Reading Bob Woodward’s new book, The Price of Politics, this weekend—while the battle between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis raged—I was reminded that the White House Rahm who tried to bully and bulldoze Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats into supporting his boss’s agenda was essentially the same City Hall Rahm who—although not sitting at the negotiating table—was the city’s public face of the ugly lead-up to the ongoing teachers strike…
Poverty and Graduation Rates in Chicago and the U.S.
Looking at Chicago Public Schools in the context of other large urban school districts: how we compare in terms of poverty, and high school graduation rates, to our peers.
The Chicago Cubs: Not The Worst Franchise in Baseball, But Close
Franchise rankings from ESPN and Bloomberg Businessweek both rate the Cubs in the cellar of all MLB and all four major-sports franchises—but no matter how you cut it, they’re not the worst.
Notre Dame: The Cubs of College Football
How the once formidable Fighting Irish became the Midwest’s lovable losers
Chicago Public School Teacher Salaries in Context
How much CPS teachers make, compared to the average Chicagoan, Chicagoans with college and graduate degrees, big-city teachers, and suburban teachers.
Chicago Teachers Strike Roundup, Pt. 4
Very little of the negotiations that led to Chicago Teachers Union strike have to do with pay, and teachers on the front lines don’t seem concerned about it. The issues are larger and less concrete, which makes negotiations difficult.