Mike Klonsky's Blog

This, in the era of mass school shootings... Trump Junior Donald Trump Jr. Rips Teachers Unions In Front Of A Gun Wall. "The teachers...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren at Chicago's Broadway Armory Sen. Elizabeth Warren   "Only in Chicago is the big Saturday night entert...

“This vote is easy for me,” Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza, 10th, said, because it closed the gap without layoffs, increased the minimum wage...

Crain's begs Amazon: "Come to Chicago. We have plenty of low-paid workers here." Last year we defeated the Rahm/Rahner pl...

In an unexpected move, Democrats have revised the K-12 education section of their party’s 2016 platform in important ways, backing the righ...

Just got a robocall from CTU organizer  Brandon Johnson  reminding me to call my state senator ( Iris Martinez ) and push for passage of HB...

Some days the encampment under a bridge just south of downtown and just north of Chicago’s Chinatown has the feeling of a bedraggled back...

At Fight For 15 rally in Chicago Funny way to get the protest news. This morning's traffic report on NBC News warns me to watch o...

Today makes it 6 years since Oscar Grant was killed at the Fruitvale Bart Station.  The Fannie Lou Hamer-Ella Baker model... There...

Ald. John Arena speaking at a Raise Chicago Coalition news conference on a minimum wage proposal expected to be approved Tuesday by the Ch...