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David Greising: With its own mayor in office, CTU makes Pedro Martinez its fall guy

CPS CEO Pedro Martinez may not be moving as aggressively as the CTU wants, but...

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David Greising: How prepared are Chicago police for the 2024 DNC?

The rhetoric about the Chicago police's readiness for the DNC is encouraging. But there’s a...

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David Greising: Merging teachers’ pension funds may help increase CPS revenues

Merging the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund into the state fund is a political longshot but...

02.08.2024 5

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David Greising: The mayor learns who is really calling the shots on CPS budget

It's rare to see an appointed board get into a public dustup with the mayor...

19.07.2024 10

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David Greising: When will CPD root out police officers with extremist ties?

The Chicago Police Department has a problem with racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and anti-democratic police officers on the force. The Proud Boys,...

21.06.2024 10

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David Greising: With Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce support, is there hope for Bears stadium plan?

Bears President Kevin Warren is a spellbinding salesperson. Twice now, I’ve been in the room as he pitched his vision for a new lakefront stadium...

07.06.2024 10

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David Greising: Aldermen gain upper hand over ShotSpotter’s future

The lengthy and intense City Council debate this week over the future of ShotSpotter, the heavily hyped and deeply flawed policing technology, came at...

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David Greising: Bears pitch for a lakefront stadium fizzled. Here’s how they can move forward.

The Chicago Bears’ epically inept unveiling of plans for a new indoor stadium to replace Soldier Field will go down in Chicago lore as one of the...

10.05.2024 50

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David Greising: The consent decree was designed to prevent disasters such as the Dexter Reed shooting

“Objectively reasonable, necessary and proportionate”: Rarely have a set of words sounded so plain yet proved so inadequate in addressing what...

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David Greising: How can the mayor advance progressive plans after Bring Chicago Home defeat?

If Mayor Brandon Johnson seemed short-tempered after losing on the Bring Chicago Home referendum last week — the first major loss of his brief...

29.03.2024 10

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David Greising: ShotSpotter missteps could be turned to the city’s advantage

ShotSpotter is the technology that just won’t go away. At least not yet. Mayor Brandon Johnson intended to allow the city’s contract with the...

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David Greising: Local officials keep proving why distrust in government is high in the Midwest

One my favorite rites of midwinter is when Richard Edelman, chief executive of the Chicago-based global public relations firm that bears his name,...

16.02.2024 10

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David Greising: Journalism is in a sorry state in Illinois and nationwide. But there is hope for local news.

The nation since 2005 has lost a third of its newspapers and two-thirds of its newspaper journalists, according to a study by Northwestern...

19.01.2024 30

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David Greising: As Mayor Brandon Johnson deals with a defining crisis, he should follow Lori Lightfoot’s lead

The surge of migrants to Chicago, arriving by busloads from Texas, hardly marks the first time a Chicago mayor new to the job has faced an...

05.01.2024 9

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David Greising: Mayor Brandon Johnson appears to be learning as he goes

Mayor Brandon Johnson has reversed course on major policy moves twice in the last few weeks. In a sense, that’s a welcome development. For his...

22.12.2023 2

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David Greising: Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. J.B. Pritzker can be at odds — as long as they do their jobs

There has been a lot of hand-wringing lately about the testy relationship between Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Frankly, they...

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