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Joel Handley
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Uprising
Why I Followed Rahm Emanuel to the Bathroom
As the Chicago mayor’s hand-picked Board of Education prepares to vote on a plan to close... more »
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Features
Whose Budget? Their Budget.
At their first participatory budgeting vote, 5th ward residents take $1 million in municipal funds into their own hands. more »
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Features
A Crash Course in Citizen Budgeting
What Chicago can learn from participatory budgeting projects around the world. more »
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Features
Budgetary Power to the People
An experiment with direct democracy on Chicago's South Side. more »
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Features
Out of Order Comes Chaos
Chicago's black gangs aren't the criminal enterprises they once were, but the police won't change their story. more »
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Features
Illinois’ Injustice System
Budget cuts are hard on ex-cons trying to make good. more »
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Features
The Poverty of School Reform
In Chicago's African-American neighborhoods, schools change quickly—regardless of what families want. more »
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Act Locally
Donald Rumsfeld’s Ugly Suits
U.S. citizens suing the former defense secretary for torture may finally get a day in court. more »
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Act Locally
Divesting From Private Prisons
A new coalition of immigrant and labor groups tries to shame the nation's largest investment firms. more »
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Working
After Valentine’s Day Firing, Ill. Workers Protest for Better Severance Pay
Consolidating packaging industry underscores proliferation of temp jobs CHICAGO—Employees at Innerpac Inc., a Chicago-area packaging manufacturer, more »
