by TKO | Jul 18, 2020 | Analysis, Featured--Small
Last week, after dogged pressure from watchdogs and transparency advocates, the Department of Treasury released some data on the recipients of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was designed to help weather the Covid storm. The program was designed to...
by TKO | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog
In another post, we found that while some members of the Chicago City Council have been quite outspoken (usually in support of the CTU), most have been pretty quiet. This pattern may be because while in general the CTU enjoys more public support than CPS, and as the...
by TKO | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog
(Co-authored with Jacob Wu and Nicholas Welch) Over the weekend, the politics of the Chicago teachers strike went national as local legend and noted hometown booster Chance the Rapper sported CTU gear as host of Saturday Night Live. The strike is now in its second...
by TKO | Mar 7, 2019 | Analysis, Blog, Cities
(co-authored with Katherine Amelia Conte and Jaime Dominguez) Chicago’s political order was upended in last week’s mayoral primary ushering in a historic and potential new era in Chicago’s racially polarized landscape and vaunted Democratic political machine. First,...
by TKO | Sep 25, 2018 | Blog, Maps
Last week, friend of the CDP Sally Nuamah wrote this insightful piece about the politics of school closures for the Washington Post Monkey Cage blog about the reasons Mayor Rahm Emanuel ultimately chose not to pursue a third term (to be fair, Emanuel has not publicly...
