Mike Klonsky's Blog

Angry Boss Madigan stomped out of the Capitol after his SB1 pension bill blew up.  Points finger at Cullerton.  If you're a retired...

Sens. Durbin & Kirk proposing the jailing of 18,000 more black men. (Sun-Times)  Thanks to Congressman Bobby Rush for using plain t...

If it's true, I'm elated to hear that graduation rates have improved in Chicago. It's a tribute to the hard-working CPS teachers...

I'm a life-long union guy and always will be. It's in my DNA. I'm also a dues-paying member of AFSCME (Retirees)  the union I...

New board chair, Cabrera (right) says Rangel (left) will stay on as UNO boss, saying there is “no one more suitable to be CEO.”   John H. ...

Sadly, I missed yesterday's school-closing protest picnic in Millennium Park . Despite the rain, it looked like great fun. I was stil...

 "I believe this was when I was telling the press I was embarrassed as a Jewish woman to have a Jewish mayor experimenting on black c...

From North Carolina to the streets of Chicago -- they are not behind us They Canceled Class Today — All The Teachers Got Arrested Whi...

Trumbull Local Schools Council member Ali Burke hugs Wendy Kattan of Raise Your Hand following the board of education's vote to clo...

Erica Clark is removed from the CPS board meeting after going over on her designated 2:00 minutes and sitting on the ground during the boa...

"Not without a fight..." -- 9-year-old Asean Johnson t's a desperate, dangerous games that Rahm and Byrd-Bennett are p...

Heroics in OK Hardest thing to watch was the news coming out of OK this morning.  Total devastation of two elementary schools with terrifi...

"Safe passage"? Yale kids will walk  past this abandoned and boarded up building at 73rd & Princeton on way to their "r...

Was that our mayor last seen trapped in a glass-encased parking meter box and dangled from a crane over the goby-infested waters...

Friday, May 17th marked another dark day for Emperor Rahm and his patrons. Karen Lewis and her CORE Caucus   have emerged victorious in a...

'Some will pay less. Some will not.' That's balance.  "We balance those equities. Do it in a thoughtful and sensitive way...

In this Oct. 15, 1957 file photo, seven of nine black students walk onto the campus of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., with a Na...

Yesterday at 61st & Cottage Grove Students 'die-in" to save their schools Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle , an organizer with South...

“I support the thrust of what Barbara said. We’re 100 percent hand-in-glove ... The glove metaphor is an appropriate one.  Barbara Byrd-...

Fred Klonsky toon. Tweet from Randi Weingarten ‏@rweingarten The Illinois Senate pension proposal is a good and fair agreement: http://...