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here's a good article from the reader. click the link, its worth the read.

The most important issue no one's talking about in the mayoral race
Racial segregation continues to inflict wounds on the south and west sides. And once again it's ignored on the campaign trail.

By Steve Bogira @stevebogira and Mick Dumke @mickeyd1971


The Sun-Times and Tribune editorial boards covered plenty of ground in the questionnaires they put to mayoral candidates—but there was a key omission. They inquired about pensions, TIFs, taxes, crime, and economic development. And they raised other, more specific issues: Should Chicago have a casino? An elected school board? Traffic cameras? A smaller city council? A legislative inspector general? A Lucas museum on the lakefront?

The question they didn't raise: What should be done about the city's racial segregation?

The Sun-Times didn't ask about it because the paper wanted to focus on financial issues, and also sought to keep the questionnaire "relatively short," Tom McNamee, editorial page editor, explained.

The Tribune had "no particular reason" for not asking about segregation, Bruce Dold, the Trib's editorial page editor, told us.

The two dailies aren't alone in ignoring racial segregation as an issue in this mayoral campaign. "That hasn't been on any of the questionnaires, and I've filled out about 20 of them," said William "Dock" Walls, one of the five mayoral candidates.

This is standard operating procedure in Chicago, as we noted on the eve of the last mayoral election. Candidates are asked to talk about everything under the sun—everything except the city's most fundamental problem.

full article: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago...t?oid=16347785