From Chicago’s first known COVID-19 case to the governor’s historic shelter-in-place order, here’s how those critical, frenzied early weeks of the pandemic unfolded, in the words of those at the center of the crisis.
Michael Madigan’s retirement is off to a rough start. His handpicked replacement—26-year-old Edward Guerra Kodatt, the infrastructure manager of Madigan protege Ald. Marty Quinn—stepped down after less than 72 hours due to “alleged questionable conduct.” It’s another blow against Illinois’s practice of appointing legislative replacements rather than holding special elections, which give voters and the … Read more
Judas and the Black Messiah doesn’t just track the Black Panther’s betrayal, but the birth of a coalition that elected Mayor Harold Washington and our 44th President.
Ousting him as House speaker is just the beginning of the party’s renovation. Next up: ditching him and his outdated tactics from the chairmanship.
The former Obama senior adviser, 64, on her globetrotting youth, old boss, and White House joys
Our city became a metropolis by gobbling up suburbs we now know as neighborhoods. Then, in the 1960s, it stopped.
