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Rachel Cohen Ran the Numbers (opens the original)
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Rachel Cohen picks her filming spots the way she picks her fights, with a reason ready. On a hot morning in late July, she sat for a long interview near the Art Institute of Chicago, a block from the Grant Park paths she walks most days and films on. Cohen is 31, a Harvard Law graduate who spent three years as a corporate finance associate in Skadden’s Chicago office and left in March 2025. What she does now resists a clean title. When people ask, she tells them she works for herself. The consis
Chicago Runs on One Job (opens the original)
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Austin Berg wanted to talk about structure before we talked about anyone’s name. We sat down in Lincoln Square on a summer afternoon. The problem, in his telling, is the shape of the government itself, more than any one mayor. Berg has spent a decade on that argument. He runs the Chicago Policy Center, an arm of the free-market Illinois Policy Institute, writes The Last Ward to more than 158,000 subscribers, and co-wrote The New Chicago Way. What he wanted to litigate was the machinery. “Among t
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