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Mihalopoulos: To calm ward, Burke should tell Trump ‘I’m fired!’
It’s a long way, geographically and culturally, from Donald Trump’s downtown skyscraper to Ald. Ed Burke’s 14th Ward. Along Pulaski Road in Burke’s ward, opening a checking account or getting a used...
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Mihalopoulos: Ask not what Berrios clan can do for your county…
Times are tough for many in the workforce today, even government employees. Not so much for the public servants who are family members of Cook County Assessor and Democratic boss Joe “JFK” Berrios....
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Mihalopoulos: Pfleger a pfaker? Or just a pfast-talkin’ pfriend?
Churches and other houses of worship need money just like all of us do, if only to keep the lights on and try to help some people cope with their own problems. We also like to think our religious...
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Mihalopoulos: Adult diaper shop sparks rash of complaints
Months before Mount Prospect gained unwanted global notoriety for a new, one-of-a-kind store geared toward “Adult Baby Diaper Lovers,” some officials at the village hall already were quietly concerned...
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Mihalopoulos: Outsider Quinn has inside track with campaign stash
After keeping a low profile since his 2014 re-election defeat to Bruce Rauner, deposed Gov. Pat Quinn has re-emerged with a new group pushing for mayoral term limits and an elected consumer advocate...
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Mihalopoulos: Without clout, judge says no appeal in boring job
Many of us — and probably all lawyers — fantasize about being elevated to the bench, wearing the black robes, getting called “your honor” and imparting our tough but wise decisions to cowering...
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Mihalopoulos: Former Blago foot soldiers busy with other battles
While Rod Blagojevich appeared in a federal courtroom Tuesday morning, at least one of the Chicago political insiders who had supported the deposed and disgraced governor since his earliest campaigns...
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Mihalopoulos: Teacher gets tough civics lesson after bucking Rahm
While teaching social science at Roosevelt High School, Tim Meegan got deeply involved in civic life himself, running for alderman against one of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s allies. His students led a...
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Mihalopoulos: Reformer Foxx has new fundraising fan — Ald. Burke
Following a path blazed by countless city snow plows, Kim Foxx found her way recently to the three-story, fortress-like home of powerful Ald. Ed Burke and his wife, Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne...
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Mihalopoulos: Parade revival a labor of love on Southeast Side
For a lot of us — even this member of the Chicago Newspaper Guild — Labor Day usually means little more than a long weekend near the end of summer. Some of you will zip along the Chicago Skyway en...
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Mihalopoulos: Munger’s ‘new’ Open Book website more of a sequel
It’s only natural for elected officials to trash predecessors of the rival political party and say they’re doing things differently now. What’s more unusual is to continue a policy started by a...
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Mihalopoulos: Parthenon’s closing a sad end to a joyous odyssey
Parthenon owner Christos Liakouras said Thursday he had no choice but to close his well-known Greektown restaurant after 48 years of serving gyros, saganaki, roast lamb and shots of crystal-clear...
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Mihalopoulos: Firm sued for treating O’Hare janitors like dirt
Four years after Mayor Rahm Emanuel shrugged off critics and signed a $99.4 million deal with a janitorial firm to clean O’Hare Airport, the contractor has agreed to pay nearly $850,000 to settle a...
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Mihalopoulos: So much spent by so few to accomplish so little
Most of us are rightly focused on a presidential election race unlike any other in the country’s history, featuring two candidates who evoke strong dislike from big blocs of the American public. Here...
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Mihalopoulos: Two not giving up case against ex-boss Duckworth
Christina Butler and Denise Goins called me together during lunch break Tuesday from their jobs at the one-story, 62-bed state veterans home in tiny Anna (pop. 4,442). It looked like their...
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Mihalopoulos: Where are Chicago cops who are ready for reform?
Lost amid Donald Trump’s hot takes on life in Chicago during last week’s presidential debate, Hillary Clinton made a statement that could sound overly optimistic to many people here in the city of her...
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Mihalopoulos: Long a Madigan man, now a county commissioner
The rise of the Cook County Board’s newest commissioner starts, as so many good political stories in Chicago do, a long time ago in the old neighborhood. Ed Moody and his twin brother Fred Moody were...
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Mihalopoulos: Donations at odds with Mendoza’s labor message
In her first run for statewide office, Chicago City Clerk Susana Mendoza hustled across Illinois on Labor Day weekend, marching in parades on the city’s Southeast Side and in Rock Island to show...
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Mihalopoulos: County Dem boss making a list and checking it twice
It ain’t easy being a Chicago political boss these days. Just ask Joe Berrios, the supposed leader of the party that dominates Cook County. Berrios expected each committeeman from Chicago’s 50 wards...
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Mihalopoulos: Feeling holiday blues because relatives see red
Follow @dmihalopoulos Nobody felt the urban-rural divide in last week’s presidential election more deeply than the Chicagoans who’ve moved here to the big, blue city from the surrounding red states of...
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