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September, 2007
The reparations movement has amassed impressive energy, support and attention over the last several years---and so has its opposition. But arguments on both sides have been pushed at least since the end of the Civil War. A brief history of the battle over slavery reparations:
1865: Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman declares that a strip of land along the Southeast coast be set aside for...
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October, 2007
At the center of the elegant Hyatt Regency Hotel ballroom, past the strolling mariachis, past the grade school kids turning karate kicks, past the diners who had paid $300-a-plate admission, stood a raised VIP table that pulled together some of the political pashas of Chicago's burgeoning Latino community. Mayor Richard M. Daley, the night's guest of honor, was being feted for his leadership over...
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September, 2007
In January, two months after he was elected to the Cook County Board, Commissioner Forrest Claypool began gathering support for a resolution calling for the ouster of Joseph Nevius, the general superintendent of the county's forest preserves. Financial managers at the forest preserves had told county commissioners in 1999 that they were at least $16 million in debt, and three years later the...
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September, 2007
Cook County board members say they aren't divided by political distinctions–"instead, they fall along a spectrum depending on their level of support for the administration of board president John H. Stroger Jr.
On one end are the veterans, defenders of the board's efficiency and effectiveness, whom new board members view as complacent loyalists. On the other are the newcomers and the self-...
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September, 2007
Since 2000, the Cook County Board of Commissioners has approved each of the 5,879 items on which it has voted. In only 115 instances, or 2 percent of the time, did at least one commissioner vote in opposition.
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September, 2007
Clarence Jones, who served as an advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., speaks at a May teach-in. (Photo by Walter S. Mitchell III)
Numerous anti-war organizations and thousands of demonstrators in Chicago have publicly denounced the Iraq war. But leaders of a local African American group feel their communities haven't been served by the war or represented in the anti-war effort.
On May 3, two...
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