Robert Davis

View from Chicago: City remap stirs up a spicy blend of partisanship and race

Chicago politicians spend a lot of time decrying and denying the decades-old description of their home town as the most segregated city in the north.…

A View From Chicago: Things are going smoothly for Mayor Daley. Should he worry?

Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley faced no problems as he wrapped up his 12th full year in office last April. And that could be a problem.While comparisons…

The First City: Chicago sometimes makes political history by producing the first of this and that

When former City Treasurer Miriam Santos plea-bargained her way to a single mail fraud count last November and was sentenced to the three months and 17…