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Chicago “Mayor 1%” Rahm Emanuel forced into runoff

February 26, 2015 By Combined Sources

Money can buy Rahm Emanuel a lot of things but it couldn't buy him love, at least not from the voters here in the Feb. 24 primary race for mayor.

Chicago’s Garcia takes on banker–backed mayor

January 26, 2015 By Roberta Wood

Mayoral candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia pledged to halt the "hijacking" of the city by hedge fund operators and bankers.

Scandinavia at the Chicago International Film Festival

October 31, 2014 By Bill Meyer

Scandinavia showed up in full glory at the 50th Chicago International Film Festival. A Swedish film even won the coveted Best Foreign Film Audience Award.

Chicagoans demand justice for victims of police crimes and torture

September 9, 2014 By Frank Chapman

Why on earth would the U.S. Attorney and the FBI rush to a news conference stating there is no sweeping investigation of shootings by Chicago police officers?

“Out of The Jungle” labor activist Les Orear dies at age 103

June 3, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Leslie Fray Orear was a union organizer for the United Packinghouse Workers of America, editor of its newspaper and co-founder and president emeritus of the Illinois History Society.