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							<title><![CDATA[Chicago Mayor Told To Stay Away From Slain Officer's Funeral]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fran Spielman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Catanzara, police union president, discussed the maneuvering with the Sun-Times. When the mayor's office began]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Losing Faith in Mayor Brandon Johnson]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fran Spielman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the combative Lori Lightfoot, Johnson seemed like a candidate for Mr. Congeniality. But Johnson's communication missteps appears to have exhausted the bank of goodwill with the reporters who cover him '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and, in turn, has kept the public in the dark about what his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Johnson Won By Uniting Blacks &amp; Lakefront Liberals]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fran Spielman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Johnson won 29 of 50 wards, including a clean sweep of majority African-American wards. He won six Hispanic majority wards to Vallas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' nine. Johnson sealed the deal along the progressive-minded north lakefront and the hipster Milwaukee Avenue corridor.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Lori Lightfoot Went From Rock Star to Rock Bottom]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fran Spielman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lightfoot was dealt a bad hand: the pandemic, civil unrest triggered by the murder of George Floyd and the violent crime wave after those demonstrations. But bad timing is too simple to explain her stunning political downfall.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Rahm's Head Is At on Runoff]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fran Spielman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Emanuel's Re-Election on the Ropes]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fran Spielman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Only one in five Chicago voters credit Mayor Rahm Emanuel with doing a better job of running the city than Richard M. Daley did, and only 29 percent would support him if the mayoral election were held today.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rahm Makes No Apologies for Polarizing Style]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fran Spielman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rahm Emanuel returned to Chicago four years ago as a polarizing figure from his days as White House chief-of-staff and as architect of the 2006 Democratic takeover of the U.S. House before that.]]></description>
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