The Chicago Marijuana Debate Continues
The mayor and Joe Moreno weigh in on pot decriminalization and/or legalization; emergency visits from weed, inhalants, and pharmaceuticals; Portugal’s approach to decriminalization; and more.
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Chicago Homeless News: Old and New
As winter prepares to descend on Chicago, there’s pushback against city cuts to services for the homeless, but the state cuts remain dramatic. Plus: Leveraging street charity, then and now.
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis on Rahm, Brizard, Arne Duncan, and the Longer School Day
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis has had some ugly squabbles with Rahm Emanuel—the longer school day battles, for starters, including his recent charge that the union is “cheating children out of an education”—and, in my opinion, she has often emerged the loser. Last week, she filed the CTU’s latest coverage of their public argument … Read more
The Top Private Schools in Chicago and the Suburbs
LESSONS LEARNED: Across metropolitan Chicago, private elementary schools offer options for students and their parents seeking an alternative to the public-school model
The Top Private Schools in Chicago and the Suburbs: Methods and Sources
Where we got the data and how we prepared our charts
Rosemont-based Riddell Seeks to Build a Safer Football Helmet
DAMAGE CONTROL: As evidence of the toll taken by head injuries in football continues to mount, the high-tech quest to create a better helmet advances, little by little, in the lab
Chicago Law Enforcement Roundup
A marijuana-ticketing ordinance is due to City Council tomorrow; a four-part series on pot; a multi-part series on international fugitive suspects; America’s two great crime waves; and more.
Teacher Looping in Chicago and Beyond
Illinois’s school report cards are out, so everyone’s searching for patterns in the data. One bright spot: Chopin Elementary’s use of “looping,” an uncommon if storied practice that’s getting a new look.
Why Robert Blagojevich Wants to Appear Before the House Ethics Committee Investigation of Jesse Jackson Jr.
After the government dismissed charges against Robert “Rob” Blagojevich, the brother of former Governor Rod Blagojevich returned to Nashville with his wife to try to rebuild his business and his life. Why is he putting himself back in the spotlight, offering to travel to Washington to appear before members of the House Ethics Committee in its investigation of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.?
Rogue Curator Tricia Van Eck's New House Gallery and Happiness Project
INSIDE OUT: A Museum of Contemporary Art vet turns her home into a DIY sound, performance, and installation art gallery, and oversees the citywide Happiness Project.