About Ken
Ken's the host of Chicago Newsroom. A former news director, reporter and radio program host, he's also a past Vice President of the Chicago Headline Club.
Chicago was presented with a draft of a consent decree earlier this week that purports to be the foundation for comprehensive police reform in our city. It was written by the Mayor’s Office, the Police Department and Attorney General Lisa … Continue reading →
Posted in Chicago Newsroom past shows
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Tagged Black Lives Matter Chicago, Chicago police, draft consent decree, Eddie Johnson, FOP, Jonah Newman, Jonathan Projansky, Kevin Graham, Lisa Madigan, Rahm Emanuel, Sheila Bedi, The Chicago Reporter
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John Arena, this week’s guest, is a founder of the City Council’s Progressive Caucus and Alderman of the Northwest Side’s 45th Ward. As we spoke, there were reports that the City’s consent decree for the reform of the Chicago Police … Continue reading →
Mayoral candidate Garry McCarthy is our guest this week. McCarthy says he wants to bring the same “performance-based” management policies he used at the Chicago Police Department to the Office of the Mayor, and that he wants to “stop … Continue reading →
Pat Quinn has a lot of work to do. He needs more than 50,000 iron-clad, valid signatures from certified Chicagoans before August 6, which he says will allow him to invoke the law which puts his petition question … Continue reading →
President Trump wants to combine the Departments of Labor and Education. Governor Rauner wants to end “fair share” payments by workers in union shops who share in the benefits from organized labor but don’t join the union. These workers … Continue reading →
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Tagged AFSCME, After Janus, Anders Lindall, Bruce Rauner, collective bargaining, CTU, Donald Trump, Janus v. AFSCME, Joe Hill, Rahm Emanuel, Robert Bruno, UIC
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Two separate discussions today with authors of two huge investigative series. Part 1 We begin with Juan Perez, Jr and Jennifer Smith Richards. Juan’s the education reporter for the Chicago Tribune and Jennifer’s a Tribune investigative data reporter. Together … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alejandra Cancino, Betrayed, BGA, CHA elevators, Chicago Tribune, CPS sexual abuse, Jennifer Smith Richards, Juan Perez Jr, Nicholas Schuler, senior high rises, WBEZ
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Dr. Willie Wilson wants an elected school board for Chicago. But his vision for management of the police department is so unconventional that it doesn’t adhere to any of the four current proposals before the City Council. If elected … Continue reading →
We’re joined this week by Lauren FitzPatrick, education reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, and Sarah Karp, education reporter at WBEZ. They discuss yesterday’s announcement by Mayor Emanuel that he intends to bring four-year pre-K classes to every CPS elementary … Continue reading →
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Tagged 50 closed schools, Chicago Sun-Times, CPS, filthy schools, Free Pre-K, Lauren Pitzpatrick, privatization, Sarah Karp, special education cuts, state oversight of special ed, University of Chicago report, WBEZ
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A City Council meeting attracts about a hundred off-duty police officers and more than a hundred anti-police protesters for one of the most raucous meetings in recent memory. They manage to approve the construction of the Obama Presidential Center, but … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bruce Rauner, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, Chicago Tribune, David Moore, death penalty, Delores French, Hal Dardick, Heather Cherone, Obama presidential Center, Police training academy, Rahm Emanuel, The Daily Line, Tont Arnold, WBEZ
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Paul Vallas visits Chicago Newsroom this week to talk about his candidacy for Mayor. He begins by arguing the the police force needs to be expanded to about 14,000 officers, of whom 1200 are detectives. “And when the police don’t … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arne Duncan, charter schools, Karen Lewis, Mayor, Paul Valla, pension funding, pension holidays' CTU, Police training academy, Rahm Emanuel, Renaissance 2010, Richard M. Daley
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