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October 2012
Rahm Emanuel, Trade-Union Racism, and the Burden of History
By Whet Moser
In response to a South Side labor protest, the mayor off-handedly mentioned the history of racial segregation in the "building trades." It's a long and ugly one, and even though private-sector unions have worked for years to undo the damage, we're still living with it. Read more
Rekindling a Post-Fire Row House in Lincoln Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.599 million
The Property: In the years just after the Great Chicago Fire—whose 141st anniversary is Monday—the prolific architect Edward Burling put up numerous buildings in the city, including, in 1875, a string of ten row houses on the Lincoln Park street that now bears his name... Read more
Testing, Graduation, and the Numbers Behind Charter Schools in Chicago
By Whet Moser
Far from the heated rhetoric of the charters-versus-public schools debate, a 2009 paper looking at a decade of charter schools in Chicago suggests that they don't necessarily improve test scores all that much, but that charter high schools are good at sending kids to college, in ways traditional schools might learn from. Read more
C-Chats: 'Sweet Bird' at the Goodman Theatre
By Emmet Sullivan and Elly Fishman
Academy Award nominee Diane Lane hasn’t been seen on stage since a 1989 production of Twelfth Night (she played Olivia), so when it was announced that she would mark her theater return in David Cromer’s Sweet Bird of Youth at the Goodman Theatre, we knew we had to check her out while we had the chance. Read our culture editors' take on the play... Read more