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David Murray

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Chicago Force Football Tryouts Are Coming Up. Are You Woman Enough?

David Murray | Posted November 13, 2009 | Chicago


Next Saturday, Nov. 21, the Chicago Force women's football team is holding the first of two tryouts. "NO FOOTBALL EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! We are looking for dedicated, competitive athletes who want to play football."

Readers wondering whether they are woman enough can listen to this piece on...

Eric Klinenberg

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A Cubs Boy, in the Shadow of the Yankees

Eric Klinenberg | Posted November 12, 2009 | Sports


Originally posted at NYMag.com


I grew up on the North Side of Chicago during the seventies and eighties and was raised to love the woeful Cubs. Spare me your pity. Sure, my team never came close to a pennant. (They still haven't.) But we adapted. My grandmother,...

Rep. Bobby Rush

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A Call to Arms to Save Our Youth

Rep. Bobby Rush | Posted November 12, 2009 | Chicago


Right now, as the city I love mourns its way through yet another deadly weekend of gun-related violence, our youth far too often get caught in the crossfire. While the national media attention has receded, somewhat, from the tragic loss of life of 16-year-old Derrion Albert, an honor student at...

Judge H. Lee Sarokin

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Cook County Prosecutor Continues to Investigate Students for Trying to Free an Innocent Man

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted November 12, 2009 | Chicago


Cook County prosecutors continue in their relentless attempt to discredit the work of the students of Medill Innocence Project in their efforts to exonerate Anthony McKinney, whom they believe to be innocent. The prosecutor initially subpoenaed the personal records of the students on the grounds that the students were more...

Esther J. Cepeda

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Economic Tier Scheme for CPS Selective Enrollment Schools: Go Back to the Drawing Board

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted November 12, 2009 | Chicago


Looking back on it, I just don't know how I made it in.

Growing up at Addison and Lincoln there was no question where I wanted to go to high school: the gorgeous, ivy-covered walls of Albert G. Lane Technical High School up the street at Addison and Western.

The...

Craig

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Two Dining Landmarks in Chicago: Last Call

Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted November 12, 2009 | Chicago


It's last call at two fine dining landmarks in downtown Chicago, the 90-year-old Don Roth's Blackhawk and the 32-year-old Nick's Fishmarket.

According to reports in Chicago newspapers, the Blackhawk, famous for warm hospitality, great service, steaks, seafood and its "spinning salad bowl," will close the downtown location at the end...

Naazish YarKhan

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Illinois GOP Orchestrates Smear Campagin Against Muslim Civic Organization CAIR

Naazish YarKhan | Posted November 12, 2009 | Chicago


I am shocked and but again, should I really be? Yesterday the Illinois GOP issued a press release baselessly accusing CAIR, a respected civil rights Islamic organization, of being anti-Semitic. The Illinois GOP's open vilification of Muslims, and organizations that dare to have an independent opinion when it comes to Palestine and Israel, is frightening to...

Rebecca Sive

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Why Roland Burris Matters to Barack Obama, Right Now

Rebecca Sive | Posted November 11, 2009 | Chicago


Okay, all you Barack Obama partisans who can't stand the thought that Roland Burris, of all people, sits in our president's former U.S. Senate seat.

And, hold-on, all you Democratic Party cheerleaders, who think there was a great, Democratic Party leadership victory for the American people Saturday night;...

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

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Keeping Score in Chicago Episode 28: Dear Oprah, LA Is For Suckers

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted November 11, 2009 | Chicago


No matter what the soccer moms say, Chicago will not fall into Lake Michigan if Big O packs up her self-help circus and heads to LaLa land. Sun-Times columnist Bill Zwecker gives the scoop on what people are saying about Oprah's diabolical plan to sell out Chicago and cuddle with...

Rep. Debbie Halvorson

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The Faces of Health Care Reform (Video)

Rep. Debbie Halvorson | Posted November 11, 2009 | Chicago


To a Representative, nothing is more important than her constituents and their well being.

As a child, I don't remember going to the doctor very often. My mother fought breast cancer, and finding affordable insurance after she beat cancer was very difficult for my parents, because my dad was a...

Rep. Diana DeGette

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Protecting a Woman's Right to Choose

Rep. Diana DeGette | Posted November 10, 2009 | Denver


The health care bill passed in the House of Representatives on Saturday night makes many improvements to benefit women. It bans gender rating for premiums, prevents breast cancer survivors and domestic abuse victims from being denied coverage, and expands access to preventive care like cancer screenings.

Unfortunately, as a...

David Ormsby

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Candidate, Former SEC Chairman Bash Water Deal that Flushed $68 Million Down the Sewer

David Ormsby | Posted November 11, 2009 | Chicago


The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) of Greater Chicago Board of Commissioners last Thursday got a pasting from financial analyst Daniel Kaplan and candidate Todd Connor -- who is aiming to join the board's ranks -- over a botched bond deal that cost Cook County area taxpayers $68 million.

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Marcel Pacatte

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Judge Should Laugh Subpoena Request out of Courtroom

Marcel Pacatte | Posted November 10, 2009 | Chicago


SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE

Anita Alvarez is a menace to your freedom.

That's why you should care about Alvarez's bid to force my Medill colleague David Protess to open his grade book to prosecutors as they attempt to -- well, I still haven't figured out what Alvarez and her cohort...

Michael Jones

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Ishtar Lives! Men Who Stare at Goats

Michael Jones | Posted November 9, 2009 | Entertainment


N.B.: Ishtar, starring two of the hottest stars of the seventies: Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman, was one of the 'biggest' movies released in 1987. Its can't miss premise involving two American lounge singers wandering in the Moroccan desert was directed by Elaine May of Mike Nichols and Elaine May...

Brian Dickie

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Conflict Resolution

Brian Dickie | Posted November 9, 2009 | Chicago


I am not sure that I am very good at it - but conflict resolution is something that from time to time has to be dealt with. I think that the secret must be to somehow persuade the most die hard and determined to recognize that "accommodation" is not a...

David Orr

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It's Time to Get Judicial Retention Elections Off the Ballot in Illinois

David Orr | Posted November 9, 2009 | Chicago


Now, I have always thought of myself as an advocate for democracy. As Cook County Clerk since 1991, I have spent 18 years pushing measures to improve access to voting. I fought for the Motor Voter law to simplify voter registration. I initiated Early Voting to make it more convenient...

Ellen Gill

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Howard Dean Stresses Importance of Grassroots Pressure on Public Option

Ellen Gill | Posted November 9, 2009 | Politics


Howard Dean came to Deerfield, Illinois on Halloween night to speak with the Illinois Tenth Congressional District Democrats or "Tenth Dems." Tenth Dems is a large volunteer organization that was started in 2003 in a Highland Park living room by seven people including former state representative Lauren Beth Gash. The...

Karl Costello

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How Sports Can Help End Violence

Karl Costello | Posted November 6, 2009 | Chicago


Lately, we have experienced a surge of violence around youth -- in the realm of sports, and beyond. It is time we consider how coaches, parents and school administrators can shape the youth and high school sports experience to heal communities, prevent violence and develop character in youth.

Here...

Esther J. Cepeda

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Women and Minorities Bit Players, But Gaining in Selling to America's Biggest Customer -- the Federal Government

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted November 6, 2009 | Chicago


It's been about a year since I last wrote about women's economic advancement and diversity initiatives in the context of the Great Recession.

Things were starting to get rough back then and they're still not great. Despite some nice indicators of national economic health, for the most part,...

Robert Koehler

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A Hole in the Night

Robert Koehler | Posted November 6, 2009 | Chicago


It all felt wild and uncontained, like on the playground. I was the outsider kid, wrong jacket, wrong hat. Or maybe I just stepped out of my car at the wrong time. With a whoop they were on me, surrounding me, laughing. What great fun.

Then one of them shoved...

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