Extra Extra: Activists Want Karen Lewis To Run For Mayor
By Chuck Sudo in News on Sep 5, 2013 11:00PM
- A group of activists have launched a grassroots campaign for Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis to run for mayor. That is not going to happen, damas y caballeros. [CBS Chicago]
- Half of the Chicago area's poor live in suburbs. Living the American Dream. [Springfield Journal-Register]
- An ordinance giving aldermen the power to regulate LED billboards has been sitting on the desk of the Zoning Committee chair since March. [Reader]
- What is it like teaching at a school in a violent South side neighborhood? One teacher describes the experience. [The Guardian]
- A rare butterfly was reintroduced to a forest preserve in the south suburbs. [Tribune]
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