Mike Quigley’s innocuous comments at an American Islamic College conference—all part of a day for a typical pol—are picked up, batted around, and dropped by Bill O’Reilly and colleagues.
In 2009, Michelle Obama asked her widowed mother to leave her beloved South Shore bungalow to move with them to Washington. Back then, the country, no matter political affiliation, was taken with this family, and there seemed to be a general feeling of good will and admiration for the Obamas as they established an extended family in the private White House quarters. These days, not so much…
THE NEW MAN ON FIVE: In his first few months as mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel has moved at breakneck speed to tackle long-neglected problems and drag a torpid bureaucracy into the 21st century. But the biggest battles lie ahead. Does he have what it takes to save the city?
In August, under gray skies threatening rain, the new mayor met us on the roof of City Hall for his cover photo shoot. Check out the behind-the-scenes pics below.
Scenes from the mayor’s first few months in office
The downstate community of Pembroke is in the news again for its poverty, as it has been for over four decades. Studies and plans come and go, but it’s remained rural, agricultural, and barely developed—which is its next plan for the future.
Means of commute, compared, from slow zones to 5000-series cars. Plus: a modest request to go Mass Mohair on an old-school, art-deco Electroliner.
Jean-Claude Brizard, 48, a big man at six feet five—“I’m too fat,” he tells me—was standing outside his office at Clark, just north of Adams, waiting for me as I arrived last Thursday for a sit-down interview. His musical accent reveals his Haiti origins, although he has been in the U.S. since 1976, when he … Read more
In advance of his first post for Off the Grid, we called up the Moscow-born School of the Art Institute grad for a getting-acquainted chat.
Well, there are a lot of reasons: the Great Speedup, job insecurity, student-loan debt, cynicism about public institutions, and stalled incomes. But in our depression is our salvation.
