Cocoposts (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Joe Shirley Jr. is channeling Mayor Richard J. Daley. Although to be fair, since reading the aforementioned 600 page biography my head feels thick, my face feels jowly and everyone sounds like Daley. I think I saw him in Smith's...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... are: --Kennedy King College, 740 W. 63rd St. --Olive Harvey College, 10001 S. Woodlawn Ave. --Richard J. Daley College, 7500 S. Pulaski Rd. --Truman College, 1145 W. Wilson Ave. --Arturo Velasquez Institute, 2800 S. Western Ave. --Wright College, 4300 N. Narragansett Ave. --Malcolm X College, 1900 W. Van Buren St. The Malcolm X College site is open Saturdays only, while the other...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Detractors compare Tom Menino to the late Richard J. Daley, who ruled Chicago for 21 years, the last of the big-city bosses. But Menino’s style also resembles that of William Donald Schaefer, a political free spirit who governed Baltimore for 16 years in the 1970s and ’80s, famous for phoning in fix-it orders for problems he spotted around the city.
Cocoposts (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Just finished reading American Pharaoh, Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation, by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor. This is not just a biography. Because of his position as boss and builder of Chicago for so...
Editor And Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... Anita Alvarez, Esq. State's Attorney Cook County State's Attorney's Office 500 Richard J. Daley Center Chicago, IL 60602 Dear Ms. Alvarez: The American Society of News Editors writes to convey its disappointment with your decision to subpoena records relating to investigations made by students in the Medill Innocence Project at Northwestern University into the criminal conviction...
