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Martin: 'Mainor says she's taking a moral stand by switching up on the people who put her in office'
Radio host Roland Martin commented on the recent defection of Georgia District 56 state Rep. Mesha Mainor, who renounced her party affiliation as a Democrat and became a Republican.
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Chicago Reader hosts Democratic presidential debate watch party
The Chicago Reader played host to a Democratic presidential debate watch party on Oct. 15 that was attended by party candidate Marianne Williamson.
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Chicago FOP 'appalled' at another media report associating police with 'white nationalists'
Chicago police continue to battle the media’s guilt by association fixation over the attendance of a handful of “white nationalists” at the FOP’s April 1 demonstration against Cook County prosecutor Kim Foxx.
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Chicago FOP strikes back against local media; threatens defamation suit
The Chicago police union has reached its limit with the local media’s portrayal of the Chicago Police Department as little more than a gang of armed racists.
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CORRECTED: Alderman Moreno's girlfriend, fake car theft caper confound police, First Ward voters
In June 2016, the Chicago Reader named Chicago First Ward Ald. Proco "Joe" Moreno and Oak Park-reared non-profit executive Celena Roldan the city's second-ranked "power couple."
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TIF districts sending more money to affluent areas than poor
Notwithstanding substantial fiscal deficits in Cook County and Chicago, significant year-over-year gains netted by tax increment financing (TIF) districts will not alleviate local shortages of hundreds of millions of dollars, according to Illinois Policy.