Banksters move in on Chicago pre-kindergarten

Investor-funded pre-K offers lessons in false premises and student exclusion.

• Numbers count for students and candidates
• Reelection run means selective endowment
• Population planning lacks in Trumbull school closure

Aldermanic election preview

Remap taps incumbents as rivals?

• Council rules favor mayor, bury insurgents
• New ward map: election surprise
• Voting record shows Rahm in control

Rahm's privatization: a clean sweep?

Which services wouldn't the mayor contract out?

• Shaw’s candidacy delineates meaning of “strong mayor"
• Slicing open Daley's Millennium pork
• Could “the dogcatcher” beat Emanuel?