Last year in Chicago: Among the Sun-Times’ findings, based on a review of police and Cook County medical examiner’s reports, court files and interviews: • The vast majority of those…

…Chicago Fed Adjusted Financial Conditions Index, real estate loans, and the yield curve remain positives — but the the Chicago Fed Financial Leverage Index, while still positive, is significantly less…

…compromise ‘a terrible mistake’ and said Democrats should ‘stand and fight for health care.’” AB: A ways back (Fall 2009), I attended Showdown Chicago protest in downtown Chicago. “The American…

…coup. He did not design the economic program. The Chicago Boys were Chilean economists who had absorbed Chicago-School training over fifteen to seventeen years through the Chile Project — a…

…often referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics. With all that expertise, you’d assume that the University of Chicago would be a paragon of economic discipline. You’d be wrong….

…is all about dominating a blue state governor who has said things that hurt Donald’s fee-fees, and the mayor of Chicago, who is Black. Trump deploys nat’l guard to Chicago…

…are getting ready for school, which means backpacks, crayons, and, for some, vaccine exemption forms. For the 2024–25 school year, 3.6% of kindergarteners had a vaccine exemption, up from 2.2%…

When Tim Russert asked Speaker Hastert about the large budget deficits, the response was: You know, Tim, I taught economics for 16 years to high school kids. I always said…

Via Alternet: Why a Case Against a Dark Money Charter School Group Is Great News for Democracy Billionaire charter school backers in Massachusetts wanted their identities kept secret. In one…

…Daley, also placed an emphasis on reforming Chicago’s schools. From 2001 to 2009 he installed Arne Duncan, currently President Obama’s Secretary of Education, as head of the Chicago school system….