Stay updated with breaking news from Coston Plummer. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Almost one year after being sworn into office, the inaugural Wentworth (2nd) Police District Council is mired in bitter personal feuds between its three district councilors, undermining at times the
Vance’s form of far-right politics is so ominous because it responds in a primal, perverted way to something actual. We are caught under a heap of wreckage, an accumulation of social and historical trauma that we are largely without means of getting out of. Millions are dead, and millions more permanently sick, from a pandemic that everyone now pretends didn’t happen, and even more vigorously pretends is not still happening.
Vance’s form of far-right politics is so ominous because it responds in a primal, perverted way to something actual. We are caught under a heap of wreckage, an accumulation of social and historical trauma that we are largely without means of getting out of. Millions are dead, and millions more permanently sick, from a pandemic that everyone now pretends didn’t happen, and even more vigorously pretends is not still happening. This massive new collective burden was piled on a society already stumbling under the weight of organized abandonment, environmental racism, for-profit health care, an...
Jeanette Taylor was reelected 20th Ward alderman. Runoff elections for mayor, Fourth Ward alderman, and Fifth Ward alderman will take place April 4.
On Tuesday, Chicagoans will elect new district councils tasked with oversight, but police-backed candidates may lessen their impact.