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Moseley Braun says she's most qualified for mayor's job
Clout StPosted by Kristen Schorsch and John Chase at 1:53 p.m. African-American political leaders today lauded Carol Moseley Braun as a unity candidate who is the best choice to replace retiring Mayor Richard Daley during a rally just hours after she...... -
Danny Davis drops out, endorses Carol Moseley Braun in mayor's race
Clout StPosted by John Chase at 6:36 p.m.; last updated at 7:38 p.m. U.S. Rep. Danny Davis ended his bid for Chicago mayor tonight, endorsing former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun. Davis said he is endorsing Braun in the name of...... -
Braun pulls a Plummer -- refuses to release her tax returns
Change of SubjectOur Jeff Coen reports Mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun today said she won't make her tax returns public before next month's election. "Because I don't want to," Braun said when asked why she wouldn't be releasing them in the time...... -
Moseley Braun tours Meeks' church in show of African-American unity in Chicago mayoral contest
Clout StPosted by Cynthia Dizikes at 12:52 p.m. Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun toured South Side churches today as she seeks to consolidate support after emerging this weekend as the consensus African-American candidate for Chicago mayor. Speaking to a... -
Lois Weisberg to step down at Cultural Affairs at month's end
Clout StPosted by John Byrne at 11:52 a.m. In a decision that's been expected for some time at City Hall, longtime Cultural Affairs Commissioner Lois Weisberg said today that she will step down at the end of the month as her...... -
Filling 'Big Bill's' britches
He was called "Big Bill" because he was. William Hale Thompson stood only 6 feet tall but weighed 240 pounds, and though there is no scientifically proven correlation between physical size and ego, Big Bill was outsize in that department too. Look at...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Al Capone, William Hale Thompson, Elections, Crimes
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Interviewer's opinion: Julia Keller on Joyce Carol Oates
![When you regard an author as the best of her generation, and among the best of any generation, and you read just about everything she's ever written - which includes, in the case of Joyce Carol Oates, dozens and dozens of novels and short-story collections and books of essays and literary criticism and published journals - you start to think, "Well, that's it. I know her, backwards and forward and sideways. Nothing new here."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-04/60756571-08135034-187105.JPG "When you regard an author as the best of her generation, and among the best of any generation, and you read just about everything she's ever written - which includes, in the case of Joyce Carol Oates, dozens and dozens of novels and short-story collections and books of essays and literary criticism and published journals - you start to think, "Well, that's it. I know her, backwards and forward and sideways. Nothing new here.\"")
Cultural CriticWhen you regard an author as the best of her generation, and among the best of any generation, and you read just about everything she's ever written - which includes, in the case of Joyce Carol Oates, dozens and dozens of novels and short-story...Tags: College Basketball, College Sports, Basketball, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Sports
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Book places: Harold Washington Library
Special to the TribuneThe place: As the largest public library in the country, the Harold Washington Library Center is not just Chicago's crown public jewel but also America's as well. Its 10 floors and 70 miles of shelving holding more than 1.1 million titles, taking up a...Tags: Harold Washington Library Center, Winter Garden
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10 things you might now know about Chicago mayors not named Daley
Richard M. Daley and his father, Richard J. Daley, have so dominated Chicago politics that it's hard to imagine life here without a Daley as mayor. But it's happened before, and it will happen again:
1 Eight of the last nine Chicago mayors were born in...Tags: Punishment, Injuries and Wounds, Richard M. Daley, Elections, Jane Byrne
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TODAY IN HISTORY
1916: The Easter Rising in Dublin collapsed as Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities. 1945: During World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp. Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun and designated Adm. Karl Doenitz...Tags: Armed Forces, World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Adolf Hitler, Defense
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Daley's stunner: Mayor won't run again
Tribune staff reporterRichard M. Daley's 21-year run as mayor will end next spring with the city broadly reshaped by his vision and unprecedented grip on power, but with his image as Chicago's sure-handed leader increasingly challenged. He stepped off the political stage in...Tags: African Americans, Millennium Park, O'Hare International Airport, Richard M. Daley, Housing and Urban Planning
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Looking back at when race clouded City Hall
Will Chicago once again become the city of tribes, racial and otherwise?
There's plenty of talk about it in the aftermath of the announcement that Mayor Richard Daley will abdicate the throne.
The concern is that the city will once again break along...Tags: African Americans, Richard M. Daley, Chicago, Judges, Washington (U.S. state)
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