Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/category/powers-that-be/page/3/)
Curtis Black’s column
Retired detective Reynaldo Guevara now faces allegations that he ran an extortion scheme in addition to framing Latino men for a series of murders in Chicago.
Public investment in infrastructure and schools would create more jobs than corporate incentives, a new analysis shows.
Historian Nancy MacLean details how curtailing public education and unions are part of a long-running libertarian movement funded by the Koch network.
Black officers in Chicago have a long history of challenging racist policing, says Buzz Palmer, founder of the defunct Afro-American Patrolman’s League.
The costly projects will add to the exodus of jobs to the suburbs making employment out of reach for low-income Chicagoans who rely on public transit.
With the police department’s discriminatory database allegedly sparking deportations, immigrant and African-American groups are teaming up to challenge it.
Businesses subsidies like EDGE line corporate pockets without boosting development where it’s most needed.
In reversing his stance on a consent decree for Chicago police, the mayor continues to resist ceding control to those directly affected by abusive policing.
While Chicago leaders celebrated Benito Mussolini in the 1930s, Italians and African-Americans organized locally against his violent and repressive regime.
Republicans hijack negotiations over SB1 with a right-wing agenda straight out of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s playbook.