Michael McDevitt
City Hall and Cook County Reporter at The Daily Line
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Feb 7, 2025 |
chicago.suntimes.com | Genevieve Bookwalter |Robert Herguth |Michael McDevitt |David Struett
Neighborhood master gardeners helped artist Cyd Smillie as she crafted a mural with honeycombs, bees and blooms on the viaduct at 4600 W. Irving Park Road in Portage Park. The president of the nonprofit Arts Alive Chicago, Smillie, of Mayfair, has painted and overseen dozens of murals around Chicago. On a whim, she applied to do this one, which Portage Park business Novak Construction commissioned.
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Jan 17, 2025 |
chicago.suntimes.com | Genevieve Bookwalter |Robert Herguth |Michael McDevitt |David Struett
As artist Anna Murphy worked on a Chicago Lawn viaduct mural, there were days the paint would freeze. “I couldn’t paint if it was below 32 degrees,” she says of the mural she finished in December. “But I spent many days out painting when it was 34.”As a result, people passing through the viaduct on West 63rd Street at South Central Park Avenue are greeted with a fantastical and detailed blue-and-white world on a gold background.
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Oct 4, 2024 |
mercurynews.com | Michael McDevitt
A plurality of political consultants believe the quality of candidates has declined during recent election cycles. The “clown car,” as one consultant puts it, attracts angry candidates with little experience in public office. Many political scientists believe that a constituency of authoritarians will outlast whatever fate Donald Trump faces this November. The Republican establishment has already accepted that it cannot ignore authoritarian voters.
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Apr 27, 2024 |
navy.mil | Mick Ryan |Michael McDevitt |Toshi Yoshihara |James Holmes
• None War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict provides insights for those involved in the design of military strategy, and the forces that must execute that strategy. Emphasizing the impacts of technology, new era strategic competition, demography, and climate change, Mick Ryan uses historical as well as contemporary anecdotes throughout the book to highlight key challenges faced by nations in a new era of great power rivalry.
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Feb 27, 2024 |
blockclubchicago.org | Michael McDevitt
Get more in-depth, daily coverage of Chicago politics at The Daily Line. CHICAGO — Cook County Circuit Court Judge Kathleen Burke did not elaborate on her reasoning for invalidating the Bring Chicago Home referendum in a Friday ruling.
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