All episodes

11/17/15: "2016 city budget raises taxes, fees, and questions"

7/27/16: "Building green: who profits from the city's latest development schemes"

5/17/16: "Lucas Museum narrative is a mixed art"

4/1/16: "2016 primary election freaks out voters and pols"

2/10/16: "Many on deck as public school ship sinks"

12/28/15: "Rahm cops to 'owning' McDonald fiasco--or does he?"

11/24/15: "Property taxes: who to blame and why to care"

9/21/15: "School start sees familiar class and cash chaos"

8/14/15: "Council, assembly, and school board: education funding tag team"

7/23/15: "Putting taxes where they belong: traders vs. TIF"

7/1/15: "Chicago's big, bad bonds: revenues or ruse?"

6/19/15: "School choices: myths, charters, dollars, and fear"

6/8/15: "Forecasting the 2015 city council: spines vs. stamps"

5/5/15: "Refuting the rationale for closing schools"

4/26/15: "What the 2015 election tells us about Emanuel and voters"

4/1/15: "Mayoral election endgame: what's on voters' minds"

3/25/15: "How to arrest police secrecy streak"

3/9/15: "What's missing from the mayoral election?"

2/22/15: "Why Obama won't vote for Rahm"

2/19/15: "2015 election: Some council incumbents are flush"

2/12/15: "Mayoral election: Obama anoints, Rahm's on point"

1/15/15: "Investor-funded pre-K based on false premise, excluded kids"

12/18/14: "Does social promotion pass the test?"

11/26/14: "Banksters not risk-adverse with city purse"

11/13/14: "What Rauner's election means for Chicago"

10/30/14: "State/county election brings choice insights"

10/2/14: "Reelection run means selective endowment"

10/2/14: "Emanuel's privatization: a clean sweep?"

9/11/14: "Trumbull emblemizes lack of population planning"

8/18/14: "Mayoral election: What Shaw and Emanuel bring to the table"

7/19/14: "Municipal election preview: a signature event"

7/9/14: "State governor campaign proves taxing"

6/10/14: "A principled stand against the administration"

5/19/14: "The resegregation of Chicago public schools"

5/2/14: "Pension 'crisis' could meet its match in TIFs"

4/8/14: "South Loop deal tells of TIF's twists"

3/24/14: "Digital manufacturing site: Olympics repeat, weapons mill, or both?"

3/6/14: "State rep primaries: who's the real progressive?"

1/27/14: "Council rules favor mayor"

1/17/14: "Charter schools: where does the money go?"

12/12/13: "Democracy elusive in Chicago public schools"

11/21/13: "Aldermen's tiff on TIF"

11/20/13: "The latest reminder of how Mayor Daley did business"

11/6/13: "A look at the mayor's 2014 budget proposal"

10/18/13: "Can anyone defeat Emanuel in 2015?"

9/26/13: "Alderman wants to know who benefited from charter school"

9/12/13: "Rahm with less chess, more Cermak TIFs"

9/5/13: "A tour of the McCormick arena development area"

8/29/13: "Mayor Emanuel: a tough leader for a tough city, or just an a-hole?"

8/15/13: "How I spent my summer break: firing teachers"

8/1/13: "There goes the Englewood neighborhood"

7/25/13: "Tracking TIF's tall tales"

7/11/13: "As schools starve, Mayor Emanuel finds $5 million for hot dogs"

6/27/13: "How Chicago's five-year school plan was dead on arrival"

6/13/13: "The madness behind Mayor Emanuel's methods"

6/6/13: "How Mayor Emanuel locked the parking meter deal in place"

5/30/13: "Rahm's new TIF program looks a lot like the old TIF program"

5/23/13: "Rahm's latest plan: close the schools, build an arena"

5/16/13: "Mayor Emanuel's FOIA policy: don't ask because we won't tell"

5/9/13: "The school model that's good enough for Pres. Obama and Mayor Emanuel"

5/2/13: "In the Chicago public schools, promises are made to be broken"

4/25/13: "Welcome to U.S. Cellular Field, home of the sweetheart deal"

4/11/13: "The lessons of Jane Byrne"

4/4/13: "The crowded classroom approach to fixing schools"

3/28/13: "Before the schools, Mayor Emanuel closed the clinics"

3/21/13: "Chicago Public Schools officials offer a lesson in confiscating books"

3/14/13: "Charities drowning in city water fees"

3/7/13: "Waiting for the day of judgment from Mayor Emanuel"

2/28/13: "Chicago's BFF's a legislator from Waukegan"

2/21/13: "Where good legislation goes to die"

2/14/13: "Good luck finding the documents that explain CPS's longer school day"

1/31/13: "Mayor Emanuel swears he's not interested in running for president"

1/24/13: "The Chicago manual of school closings"

1/17/13: "The last of the independents"

1/10/13: "Keeping up with the Jones High School Plans"

1/3/13: "ICE, CME, and TIFs"

7/21/11: "Public schools, private budgets"

12/13/12: "Taxation by obfuscation"

12/6/12: "A Development in Sheep's Clothing"

11/29/12: "Rahm's Addition by Subtraction Approach to Jobs"

11/22/12: "United Generously Returns Taxpayer Subsidy It Was Required to Return Anyway"

11/8/12: "To Mayor Emanuel, Some Jobs Are Worth More than Others"

11/1/12: "The Public Weighs in While the Mayor Skips Out"

10/25/12: "Whatever Happened to Story Time?"

10/11/12: "How the Democrats Let Derrick Smith Shoot Them in the Foot"

10/4/12: "Today's Lesson: Charters Do Not Outperform Unionized Schools"

9/20/12: "The Last Democracy in Chicago?"

9/13/12: "Why Chicago Teachers Hate Rahm"

9/6/12: "With Democrats Like These, Who Needs Republicans?"

8/30/12: "Akins in Our Midst"

8/16/12: "Prentice Preservationists Put Rahm in a Bind"

8/9/12: "The Grow House Next Door"

8/2/12: "Say It Ain't So, Joe"

7/19/12: "As the Slush Fund Shrinks, the Mayor Dips In Anyway"

7/5/12: "How Chicago Said Yes to Pot"

7/5/12: "The Rahmney Plan for Schools"

6/28/12: "The Mayor's Millionaire Club, Part II"

6/7/12: "It's No Foxie Brown: Mayor Emanuel Makes a TIF Movie"

5/24/12: "Summits Come and Go, but the Mayor's Handouts Never End"

5/10/12: "Mayor Emanuel's Dumping Ground?"