Not to take the comparison between Rich Daley and Rahm Emanuel too far—Daley in ballet tights?—but as family men the mayor and his would-be successor share a couple of key traits. When Bill Clinton came to town on Tuesday to tout the talents of his buddy Rahm, and Rahm responded by toasting his former boss, “I could not ask for a better role model than you,” I wondered what Rahm’s wife Amy Rule thought…
February 2011: Jan Parr, Geoffrey Johnson, Bryan Smith, Seth Weitberg
OPEN HOUSE: Six local celebs show us how they live
IN FEBRUARY’S LETTERS: Some readers don’t love the same things about Chicago we do
Gutierrez, the Congressman from the 4th District since 1993, is recording a robo call urging Chicagoans to vote for Gery Chico for mayor—and not to vote for Rahm Emanuel.
Tonight, WGN News at Nine is airing an investigative story that all began right here, several months back, during the course of our investigation with the Better Government Association (BGA) of soon-to-be elected Cook County assessor Joseph Berrios. (The investigation was published in our October issue)…
When mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun—Kirk’s predecessor in the U.S. Senate—went on WGN radio early last Wednesday morning and claimed that she had “an advanced degree from Harvard” (she has degrees from the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago Law School), the only reporter I’ve found who picked up on the whopper…
LEFT TO HIS OWN DEVICES: Carl Carder brings new meaning to the phrase “farm implements”
BLOCKING THE BABY BUMP: With a high-tech assist from local high schoolers, Dr. Melissa Gilliam hopes to change attitudes about contraception and reduce the large number of teenage pregnancies
