The Chicago Tribune has the story here.

"I don't have a minute for hate.  I will pursue justice for the rest of my life."

  --Mamie Till, from her elegy of her son Emmit Till, whose murder and public funeral helped spur the Civil Rights Movement

In the last couple of days, Chicago's news media have put out two great pieces on city politics.

Time Out Chicago has an excellent article on Mayor Daley's relationship with the city council. You can read the article here.

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Via Pen Street:

Just in: the April 21st Poverty Dispatch from the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Follow the link to read the following stories:
    * People Living in Poverty - Louisiana
    * State Children's Health Insurance Program
    * State Health Care Plans - Massachusetts, Ohio, Minnesota

In Mary Schmich's April 20th Chicago Tribune column, she mentions CCH's Hannah Willage and Stephanie Hooker while writing about about how last week "Chicago Housing Authority opened its waiting list for federally subsidized rental vouchers."  

Follow the link to read the Ms. Schmich's column.

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Via the Chicago Tribune:

"For more than a decade, poor people couldn't even get their names on a waiting list for federally subsidized rental housing in Chicago.

"On Thursday, a brief and small window will open for those who hope for a shot at one of the rental vouchers commonly known as Section 8. During the next four weeks, low-income families can enter a lottery for one of 40,000 spots on the waiting list . . . .

The Public Interest Law Report at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law recently hosted a panel on labor unions and the living wage. (Click here to listen to the panel on your computer.) The panel featured union representatives from Chicago, who spend significant time discussing Chicago's 2006 Big Box ordinance.