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...Without Percy, Charlie, Basil and Dinkins, you probably wouldn't have this number of [politicians] in Brooklyn, in the Bronx, in Queens. They're pioneers." But Wright acknowledges that the power they accumulated is now flowing elsewhere - to the outer boroughs of New York City and to cities like Chicago, President Barack Obama's adopted hometown...
Daniel J. Rubin: I was living in Chicago and doing a lot of different things. I was writing for a children’s television show, and I was working for two different theater groups. I was writing songs and performing at local clubs, and I wrote short films and produced them on the weekends using equipment from corporate media departments, and actors I knew from the theater, and somebody suggested I should write a movie, so I wrote a movie. And I sold it and thought, “That was easy...
...that restaurant on a Saturday night, and the whole crew sat around the table and we made little speeches. I was a little drunk and did the whole thing, saying "I love you guys." And then the next day I got on a plane and went to Chicago and was on the set of Public Enemies and dyed my hair white for the job. (See the top 10 movies...
Duncan, who grew up in the diverse Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park where his mother ran an after-school tutoring program for under-privileged children, said he had witnessed gross inequities between his education at the University of Chicago Lab School and the education of his neighbors in other schools...
...Let’s have an honest national conversation,” said Duncan, who has been lauded for his previous work as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools. “Let’s all move outside our comfort zones—management, unions, everybody—and say, ‘We need to better serve children...