Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky about which takes more effort: informing candidates about outstanding debts, or contesting their eligibility, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky about whom Rahm Emanuel talked out of running for mayor, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky about Gery Chico's single greatest success with public schools, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on the awards that didn't make the cut, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on how the Chicago Board of Elections originally determined the number of nominating signatures needed, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on tax-increment financing's cloak of invisibility, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky about how Cook County's property tax system pacifies the public, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on how TIF subsidies attract development investors, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on how local school councils came about, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on the effect of polls on voter behavior, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on how Chicagoans use county government, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on how to remedy the over-reliance on property taxes, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky about what will really determine whether Rahm Emanuel can run for mayor, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on how Mike Quigley opened the floodgates to scrutiny of tax-increment financing, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky about which mayoral candidate has the most similarity to Daley, and more.

In the summer of 2010 the CPS administration laid off over 1,300 teachers. When some applied for new teaching positions within CPS, they found that someone had secretly changed their personnel records—preventing them from ever teaching again in Chicago public schools, and maybe elsewhere.

ChiGov features many interviews with Ben Joravsky, who has reported on Chicagoland and its governments for the Chicago Reader since 1984—and hosts a regular podcast sponsored by the Reader. Ben has also done investigative reporting for the The Chicago Reporter. He authored the bestselling book Hoop Dreams, and co-authored Race and Politics in Chicago.

Ben's awards for journalism include a first-place AltWeekly Award from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies; multiple Lisagor Awards from the Chicago Headline Club; the Studs Terkel Award from the Community Media Workshop; and a Chicago Journalist of the Year award from the Chicago Journalists Association.

Find a complete archive of our interviews with Ben by clicking on the link below.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on why the Chicago Public Schools administration would authorize a contract violation, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on whether the Daley administration's really lied about tax-increment financing, and more.

Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky about the effects of crime cameras on policing, and more.