Mike Klonsky's Blog

"We tortured some folks."  --  Pres. Obama Columnist Gene Lyons This is less a war than an uprising in a concentration camp ...

Ald. O'Connor The big story in Chicago is all about  Catherine Sugrue , the sister of  Ald. Patrick O'Connor , being appointed b...

Chicago's biggest and priciest teeny-bopper rock festival jumps off this weekend. Thousands of mainly white, suburban kids are gettin...

A SMALL VICTORY -- Ongoing protests against Detroit's massive water shut-off to the city's poorest have forced a restructuring in...

When I think of Chicago politics, one word comes to mind, family . I think of a guy like Joe Berrios , the chairman of the Cook County Democ...

Moral Monday yesterday in downtown Durham The Moral Monday movement is spreading across N.C. this summer as part of the NAACP’s “Moral F...

"I am the decider, and you have nothing to do with it.”  --  Christie to Mayor Baraka Kristen Crowell “Certainly, it is our opin...

Patti Vasquez and Pete Lee on WGN last night Special thanks to WGN's Patti Vasquez for having me on her show last night. Comedian ...

WGN'S WALTER "SKIPPY" JACOBSON says he's seen everything now that the board has decided to hire more press secretaries a...

Rod Estvan “This budget does not even attempt to formulate a plan to address the structural deficit the district is faced with.” -- A...

Natasha Korecki A new progressive movement that’s swept through New York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Jersey City, New Jersey; Oregon; and...

Harold Washington's 1987 victory speech at Navy Pier. Although I rarely agree with his take on Chicago politics, I have generally fo...

In response to the unraveling situation in Detroit, the United Nations issued a statement out of Geneva last month that said, “Disconnec...

Rahm's closing of 50 schools, a stab in the heart for the city's black community, may be the very act that brings him down in 20...

Donna Brazile “The very premise of ‘market-driven education reform’ rests on the fallacy that the public school system is in crisis, an...

Emanuel's weakness has been known for months—he lost the left ages ago, and has lost Chicagoans more generally over basic competence is...

Tells AFT delegates, "We will go forward together." Rev. Wm. Barber II, president of NC's NAACP chapter  “If they’ve ...

If you're a powerful suburban billionaire like Bruce Rauner and you want to get your daughter into one of Chicago's elite selective...

Our "moderate" Republican Senator  Mark Kirk , who has called for the mass incarceration of 18,000 young black men as a crime-fi...

WHO BESIDES THE MAYOR and BBB thought this was a good idea?  When CPS officials first announced the plan to borrow two months' wort...