CHICAGO’SFREEWEEKLYSINCE | FEBRUARY | FEBRUARY CHICAGO’SFREEWEEKLYSINCE Mayoral Spotlight on Bill Daley Nate Marshall 11 Aldermanic deep dives: DOOR TO DOOR IN THE 25TH Anya Davidson 12 THE SOCIALIST RAPPER IN THE 40TH Leor Galil 8 INSIDE THE 46TH Maya Dukmasova 6 Astra Taylor asks what democracy is Sujay Kumar 22 Age of displacement As the U.S. government grinds to a halt and restarts over demands for a wall, two exhibitions examine what global citizenship looks like. By SC16 THIS WEEK CHICAGOREADER | FEBRUARY | VOLUME NUMBER TR - ­ ­ A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR @ HAPPYVALENTINE’SDAY! To celebrate our love for you, we got you a LOT lot! FOUR. TEEN. LA—all of it—only has 15 seats on its entire city council. PTB of stories about aldermanic campaigns. Our election coverage has been Oh and it’s so anticlimactic: in a couple weeks we’ll dutifully head to the ECAEM so much fun that even our die-hard music sta ers want in on it. Along- polls to choose between them to determine who . we’ll vote for in the ME PSK side Maya Dukmasova’s look at the 46th Ward, we’re excited to present runo in April. But more on that next week. ME DKH D EKS Leor Galil’s look at the rapper-turned-socialist challenger to alderman Also in our last issue, there were a few misstatements of fact. Ben C LSK Pat O’Connor in the 40th—plus a three-page comics journalism feature Sachs’s review of Image Book misidentifi ed the referent of the title of D P JR CEAL from Anya Davidson on what’s going down in the 25th Ward that isn’t an part three. “Those fl owers between the rails, in the confused wind of trav- M EPM uncomfortable text message from Danny Solis. elers,” comes from a poem by Rilke, not Rimbaud. And Deanna Isaacs’s A EJL SWDI We’re thrilled you enjoyed our fi rst-ever mayoral campaign question- review of Electra overstated the show’s length by 40 minutes: the opera BJ M S naire last issue. We were excessively pleased with ourselves for pulling runs for only 100 minutes. Additionally, our January 31 review of Irving SWMD LG G DD C it o —at least until we realized we had entirely overlooked OG mayoral Park cafe Finom misidentifi ed owner Rafael Esparza. S MEBW candidate Bob Fioretti. How embarrassing! We have almost no excuse! But let’s not let the mistakes of the past ruin our special day. Happy M LCLC F LCP F Except that there are SO MANY DAMN CANDIDATES. 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I have been tracking rats, wild birds, and a muskrat in my yard and the city’s alleyways and parks. A coyote or three and a fox at the city’s margins. Tall grasses, shrubby hedges, SYMPOSIUM tree snags, and open waterways are a great Wmen’ starting point to look for such creatures, as someone is usually taking refuge from the humans or other predators in these places, or FERAL CITIZEN taking advantage of open water to hydrate or Thursday, February 28 fi sh. A wet snow is better at taking a clear reg- Leae hip istration of tracks. A dry snow makes it more 7:30 a.m. — Noon A cure for the challenging to fi nd clear physical tracks, and a deep snow causes hooves, tails, and paws to University Club | Chicago | 76 East Monroe drag, which can be confusing. But the general winter blues shape, distance between, and patterning of punch marks through the snow can give you Yellow snow, frozen scat, and other clue of identity. I also look for signs of naviga- Join Three Dynamic Women Leaders sightings tracking city wildlife tion through a landscape: stripped bark, bent and professional women from across Chicago for By N K or broken branches, a scatter of seed from a tallgrass, the shredding of seeded fl owers, a a dynamic discussion and interactive workshop on frozen pile of scat. Yellow snow. Red snow. ver the past few weeks I have found I carry binoculars, a loupe, a camera, and The Power & Possibilities of Feminine Leadership. myself either in sweaters over my ever-present tools of measurement: my pajamas or in long underwear and hand and my natural walking pace. I prepare snow pants. Between packaging to track and trail by dumping my mind in the FEATURING: dried mushrooms and herbs and house before I step outdoors, walking to a Oorganizing my seed room, I have outdoor quiet starting area, and then centering myself – Dr. Judith Wright, best-selling author, women’s empowerment chores—there are the wild birds that I provide quietly. I open my senses, every one of them pioneer, co-founder The Wright Foundation with oil-rich seeds and starchy corn cakes extending beyond my own body, including the of lard and food. Water and straw go to the sensing organ of the skin, and allow for fuller – Christie Hefner, longest-serving female CEO of a US public coveys of bobwhite quail kept in four large en- awareness of my environs—air, layers, and company, former Chairman of Playboy Enterprises, Inc. closures outside; once native to this region but type of tree and shrub canopy, species and now unseen in the local rural landscape due to arrangement of plants, change of slope within – Jill Wine-Banks, Watergate prosecutor, infl uential thought leader habitat destruction. I also leave the warmth the ground, large stones, fallen logs, buildings, in multiple law fi rms and corporations, MSNBC legal analyst of the woodstove fi re for stretches to hone my dumpsters, water features. Once I discover skills in identifying animal tracks and trailing signs, I enter the mind-set of whatever I might wild birds and mammals. Stepping outside to be following and learn from it as I proceed. notice and learn how animals inhabit this city Once tuned in you will notice animal high- REGISTER NOW — LIMITED SPACE! in the depth of the season could cure more of ways everywhere. Who’s there, how they sofi awomen.com/symposium us of our wintertime blues. move through and use the land, who they I view the practice of trailing as taking in the encounter—favorite forage spots and the For information: 312.645.8333 larger story of an animal, while I see tracking speed or urgency in which they look for food as building a more individual picture. Trailing are all revealed. The swish of a tail into a den involves following signs or marks in the land- or brushing of feathers around a pounce kill, scape left by animals, which includes their the pause when a four-legger, once trotting, tracks and any disturbances they have made stands on its hind legs to notice something, Hosted by by feeding, moving, or taking shelter. Some of and the rerouting of its journey. Burrows re- these marks are: bark scrapes, foraging holes veal themselves in tree snags explaining the FOR THE REALIZATION OF HUMAN POTENTIAL and kill sites, broken branches, lost feathers or pile of bones in front of them. The hustle and wrightfoundation.org clumps of fur, scat, compressed plant remains, switchback weavings of rabbits as they build temporary lays or longer-term beds, burrows cities under woodpiles. You’ll find the J ll FEBRUARY - CHICAOREADER 3 CITY LIFE NEWS & POLITICS Tom Tunney continued from 3 Is the animal walking, loping, galloping, or ERICCRAIG crack in the wood that the rats have discov- running? ered to get into your garage. Wing impressions: Important for preda- A few features to scout for: tors, as they are rarely just standing on the Burrows and dens: Diameter and orienta- ground and usually perched coming into tion of hole, if it is sloped or drops suddenly; ground to swoop and pick up an animal to feed where they are found, be they under shrubs or on or process a kill.