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The Chicago Public School Teacher's Husband

David Murray | Posted 11.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Henry Horner Homes, Lake Street El, Poverty, Chicago Public Schools, There Are No Children Here, Alex Kotlowitz, Oak Park, Teacher, Education, Education Reform, Public Schools, Inner City, Charter Schools, Arne Duncan, Chicago News
David Murray

Our troubles had begun when my wife Kirsten took the job teaching art, K-8, at a West Side elementary school. Then came the informal adoptions.

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Real Estate Woes Hurt CHA Plan For Transformation

Chicago Journal | Micah Maidenberg | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Real Estate Slump, Henry Horner Homes, Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago Housing, CHA Plan for Transformation, Chicago Housing Authority Plan for Transformation, Cha, Chicago Real Estate, Chicago News

CHA has been criticized since the plan was announced in 1999 for how demolition of tens of thousands of units would affect Chicago's poorest. But now ...

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How Chicago Made a Liberal of Me

David Murray | Posted 10.18.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Becoming a Democrat, Henry Horner Homes, Alex Kotlowitz, Democratic Chicago, Liberalism, Studs Terkel, Becoming a Liberal, Chicago News
David Murray

I could have gone either way, and I think that when I arrived in Chicago, fresh out of college in 1992 I was neither liberal nor conservative. But then . . .

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