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[RECORDING] BGA Community Forums: Navigating the Story of Cabrini-Green

by Olivia Obineme January 31, 2022November 10, 2022

Listen to an extended recording of the community forum despite attempts by bad actors to silence a much-needed conversation on Cabrini-Green.

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A Message about BGA Community Forums: Navigating the Story of Cabrini-Green

by David Greising January 29, 2022November 10, 2022

Read a message from President and CEO David Greising on the disturbing incident during our recent community forum.

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Greising: What’s Awry With Lightfoot and Evans’ Fight Over Electronic Monitoring? Use of Distorted Data.

by David Greising January 21, 2022November 10, 2022

The messy use of data by Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County Chief Judge Evans over electronic monitoring is particularly painful in a dispute where lives are at stake.

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Fighting Crime? Maybe Our Crime-Fighters Should Stop Fighting First.

by David Greising January 11, 2022November 10, 2022

The odds of solving Chicago’s tragic crime problems are undermined by the fact that the city’s chief public-safety officials simply can’t get along. That has to stop—now.

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Greising: Jan. 6 Showed Us the Power of Voting Is Fragile. There Must Be Safeguards.

by David Greising January 7, 2022November 10, 2022

Even in the face of an anti-democratic movement, there are some signs that the commitment to truly representative government is still at work.

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Greising: Does Mayor Lightfoot Have Fresh Solutions for Chicago’s Violence?

by David Greising December 27, 2021November 10, 2022

With surging crime rates to close out 2021, Lightfoot hopes to execute a plan to curb the violence by summer 2022; however, the mayor should take her proposal back to the drawing board.

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Greising: Chicago Remap Battles Endure, As Always. But This Time, It’s Black vs. Latino

by David Greising December 10, 2021November 10, 2022

The struggle for dominance in City Council this time is between Blacks and Latinos, not Blacks and whites like in the 1980s.

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Chicago Has One Chance To Get Its Gambling Mix Right. And Sportsbooks Are a Factor.

by David Greising December 7, 2021November 10, 2022

The mayor should not just shrug off casino bidder Neil Bluhm’s warnings about the effects of stadium sportsbooks. If her administration gets this wrong, the economic and reputational damage could be substantial.

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Greising: At Two-Year Mark, Invest South/West Shows Promise

by David Greising November 29, 2021November 10, 2022

At the heart of the Invest South/West effort is a notion that the destructive powers of crime, disinvestment and other ills can be tackled with government and private resources.

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Greising: Believe It or Not, Billionaires Make Illinois Politics Better

by David Greising November 15, 2021November 10, 2022

Illinois is a case study in why plenty of good can come with the big bucks from billionaires.

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