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Chicago 312: What Would You Do With 2 Million a Day?

Sep 10, 2025

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Chicago 312: What Would You Do With 2 Million a Day?

Take 2!

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🚨 Soft Balkanization

Sep 10, 2025

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🚨 Soft Balkanization

Chicago 312: Is it time to say the quiet part out loud? What will it take?

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🚨 Don't Send the National Guard to the Bean 🚨

Sep 3, 2025

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🚨 Don't Send the National Guard to the Bean 🚨

Chicago 312: Chicago crime is at a 60-year low — but somehow we’re getting ICE, National Guard threats, and financially draining CPD lawsuits. You know what this could fund instead? MENTAL HEALTHCARE. Which we need for all the climate news.

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💥 Chicago v. Trump

Aug 27, 2025

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💥 Chicago v. Trump

Chicago 312: the National Guard's staging at the Great Lakes, what it really costs to not fund transit, pressure on hospitals about gender affirming care, and why Chicago doctors who worked in Gaza are calling to ‘block the bombs’.

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Chicago Politics

Pension Payment Hot Potato

Aug 20, 2025

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11 min read

Pension Payment Hot Potato

Chicago 312: From Dexter Reed’s case to pensions to the Tribune losing its film critic, we're trying to pass the buck... or the potato? Which is hot?

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Why J.K. Rowling Thinks She’s Speaking Truth to Power

Aug 16, 2025

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Why J.K. Rowling Thinks She’s Speaking Truth to Power

Jessica Mitford fought Franco, segregationists, McCarthy, and the American funeral industry, humiliating the powerful. JK Rowling named her daughter after Mitford, then spent seven years attacking... trans women. Why?

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Chicago is a City of Haters

Aug 13, 2025

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Chicago is a City of Haters

Chicago 312: Trump’s power grab, why it's so hard to just tax the rich in Chicago, and the transit cliff coming for your commute...

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Chicago 312: The Outrage Machine Is Working For The Tribune, At Least

Aug 6, 2025

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Chicago 312: The Outrage Machine Is Working For The Tribune, At Least

Chicago 312: “Deport her.” “Arrest them," and other normal democracy things to say.

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Chicago Politics

Moderates Are Failing the Media War: Pete, Rahm, and the Propaganda Trap

Aug 2, 2025

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12 min read

Moderates Are Failing the Media War: Pete, Rahm, and the Propaganda Trap

The issue isn’t about trans people in sports, the genocide in Gaza, or even Rahm Emanuel. It’s about whether a candidate understands power, media, and narrative in 2025.

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Chicago: We Have Clinics Until We Don’t

Jul 30, 2025

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Chicago: We Have Clinics Until We Don’t

Chicago 312: This week, from Gaza to the South Loop, the mask slipped a little further.

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Chicago Needs More Revenue.

Jul 23, 2025

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Chicago Needs More Revenue.

Chicago 312: So much of city politics is about power plays between departments. Here are some of the ones happening this week.

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"Tax the Rich" in Chicago

Jul 16, 2025

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10 min read

"Tax the Rich" in Chicago

Chicago 312: Three people you’ve never heard of are helping billion-dollar landlords erase their tax bills.

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