By Steve Rhodes
Way behind with so much going on and so much great stuff elsewhere on the site today, so let’s just move to that.
* Exposing Chicagoland: Turns out Rahm Emanuel executive produced after all. My take on the Tribune’s blockbuster.
Our regular Tweeting Chicagoland feature will appear sometime between now and Monday. Also, watch this space on Saturday evening for our Beachwood International podcast with The Angry Aussie as we discuss the Trib story and this week’s final episode, as well as the next edition of The Beachwood Radio Hour.
* Exclusive! Inside The New Barack Obama High School: As we are wont to do, we have the inside scoop on the mayor’s new pet project. Rated F for funny.
* This Week In Deadspin Chicago: One of the weirdest weeks in recent Chicago sports history produced humiliating hijinks from Homer City.
* Blue Plane Blues: What you can’t see is the sound. In Beachwood Photo Booth.
* Bulls Star With Brooklyn Roots Is Same As Ever: Different: The New York Times looks at Joakim Noah.
* The Week In Chicago Rock: Neil Young, Bobby Bare Jr., Gemini Club, Goo Goo Dolls, Sam Smith, The Knife, and Ryan Eclipse.
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The Week In Juvenile Justice
From the mean streets of Chicago to the indigenous Aussie outback.
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Reader Comment
“I don’t live in the city but I grew up in the city and went to public schools. This whole crap about selective enrollment is crap. I guess BO really is not a man of his people. $100 million for a library? Guarantee huge entrance fee plus amusement tax. What crap. Closing neighborhood schools is crap. 45 people shot over Easter weekend is crap. I mean, it’s a god holiday, no? Worrying about plastic bags when there’s bodies in the streets?! Are all the politicians on medical marijuana? Why aren’t people storming City Hall?”
– Noell Jezek
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TweetWood
Tom Wheeler, FCC Chairman, kills net neutrality. Oh, and he’s a former Cable industry Lobbyist. #NetNeutrality never stood a chance.
— Anonymous (@AnonyOps) April 24, 2014
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Parent to Obama: Let me tell you about the Common Core test Malia and Sasha don’t have to take but Eva does http://t.co/LwJh4FvJ3f
— Lauren FitzPatrick (@bylaurenfitz) April 24, 2014
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#CPSboard has a policy that doesn’t allow naming schools after anyone who’s still alive; someone has to ask for permission
— Lauren FitzPatrick (@bylaurenfitz) April 24, 2014
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“Huge” RT @BruceRauner: Huge crowd at Eclipse Employee Town Hall! pic.twitter.com/EUpmx6flOH
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) April 24, 2014
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Selective-Enrollment Health Care To Be Named After Obama.
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) April 24, 2014
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Was the new northside SE high school in the ten year facilities plan? Or is it just purely a working-the-political-base thing?
— Tim Furman (@tbfurman) April 25, 2014
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Chicago To Name High School After Obama, Car Wash After Biden.
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) April 25, 2014
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The only thing that would make Barack Obama HS as a selective enrollment North Side school any more perfect would be if it was a spy school.
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) April 25, 2014
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Wooderson already spotted at site of future Obama High, telling kids it’d be cooler if they did.
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) April 25, 2014
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The Beachwood Tip Line: L-I-V-I-N.
Posted on April 25, 2014