Latest Benjoravsky Podcast Episodes
How to stay in office for decades: Illinois State House elections
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - March 06, 2020 20:55 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
The other Senate
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - March 05, 2020 10:55 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
We want somebody somebody sent: electing Committeemen
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - March 04, 2020 10:55 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
Noteworthy Chicago congressional races
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - March 03, 2020 10:55 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
You be the judge: A new Supreme Court justice and other votes for the bench
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - March 02, 2020 17:50 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
Reclaim the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 28, 2020 10:55 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
We've got your files right here: A new Clerk of the Circuit Court
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 27, 2020 10:55 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
What is the Board of Review and why should we care?
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 26, 2020 10:55 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
Beyond Smollettgate: The Cook County State's Attorney’s race
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 25, 2020 10:55 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
So you want a new president? Illinois delegate assignments
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 24, 2020 23:05 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
The ignored wards: runoffs in the 15th, 16th, and 21st
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - March 28, 2019 09:55 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
A clear line in the sand: the 30th Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - March 27, 2019 09:55 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
Machine hangover: the 25th Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - March 26, 2019 09:55 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
Three votes short of victory: the Sixth Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - March 25, 2019 09:55 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
Old friends and new enemies: aldermanic runoffs at Season One wards
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - March 23, 2019 09:55 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
A black woman will lead Chicago: the mayoral runoff
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - March 22, 2019 19:15 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBack by popular demand: The Back Room Deal features radio personality and longtime Reader political writer Ben Joravsky arguing local Chicago politics with Reader senior writer Maya Dukmasova. With sharp wit and stinging analysis, Joravsky and Dukmasova cut through the smokey haze of the election...
No one is running: the 42nd Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 12, 2019 10:55 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThe race in the ward that economically drives the entire city of Chicago is totally uncontested, and Ben and Maya look at why. http://www.chicagoreader.com *** Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal is produced by Anne Elizabeth Moore. Produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative I...
Not even trying to pretend: the 46th Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 11, 2019 10:55 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBen and Maya look at the fight between low-income housing and neighborhood amenities in rapidly changing Uptown. http://www.chicagoreader.com *** Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal is produced by Anne Elizabeth Moore. Produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studio...
What can we expect from our elected officials: the 22nd Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 09, 2019 10:55 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDeparting progressive alderman Rick Munoz faces personal trouble in advance of the election, placing successor Michael Rodriguez's race in jeopardy, in staunchly independent Little Village. http://www.chicagoreader.com *** Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal is produced by Anne Elizabeth M...
Ties to Kanye West and Michelle Obama: the Fifth Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 08, 2019 10:55 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThe future site of the Obama Presidential Center and the home of the University of Chicago also encompasses parts of lower-income South Shore, which Ben and Maya think makes for a fascinating aldermanic race. http://www.chicagoreader.com *** Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal is produced ...
Never heard a kind word about the alderman: the Seventh Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 07, 2019 10:55 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBen and Maya look at an unpopular alderman who faces a strong challenge from a young activist, in a ward in serious need of economic development. http://www.chicagoreader.com *** Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal is produced by Anne Elizabeth Moore. Produced and edited by Andrea Klunde...
Writing off the activists: the 37th Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 06, 2019 10:55 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThe leading City Council proponent for putting the unpopular police academy in her far west-side ward faces a tough race, and Ben and Maya are excited. http://www.chicagoreader.com *** Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal is produced by Anne Elizabeth Moore. Produced and edited by Andrea ...
Why does it look so weird: the First Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 05, 2019 10:55 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsA classic political operator in the Bucktown/Wicker Park/Logan Square area leads Ben and Maya into a discussion of their relationships with Chicago's aldermen. http://www.chicagoreader.com *** Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal is produced by Anne Elizabeth Moore. Produced and edited by...
The front-man on all those TIF deals: the 40th Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 04, 2019 10:55 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThe public face of some of Chicago's worst deals—the Olympics, ongoing TIF deals, and the parking meter sale—is City Council's new finance committee chair, and Ben and Maya have plenty to look at in the ward bound by Clark Street, Lawrence Avenue, and the Chicago River. http://www.chicagoreade...
You have to pass the bill to know what's in it: the 33rd Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 02, 2019 10:55 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBen and Maya discuss Albany Park's powerful and well-connected alderman Deb Mell and her exciting DSA-backed challenger, Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez. http://www.chicagoreader.com *** Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal is produced by Anne Elizabeth Moore. Produced and edited by Andrea Klun...
I'm falling asleep even saying it: the 47th Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - February 01, 2019 10:55 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsBen and Maya look at the North Center / Ravenswood neighborhood and outgoing alderman Ameya Pawar's pragmatic, thoughtful progressivism. http://www.chicagoreader.com *** Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal is produced by Anne Elizabeth Moore. Produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The ...
The Joe Moore Show: the 49th Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - January 31, 2019 10:55 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThe former progressive champion turned mayoral rubber-stamper faces a tough race, and Ben and Maya are all about it. http://www.chicagoreader.com *** Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal is produced by Anne Elizabeth Moore. Produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor St...
The latest Fast Eddie: the 14th Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - January 30, 2019 10:55 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThe indictment of the head of City Council's finance committee, who shook down a fast-food joint and kept a passel of guns in his office, offers plenty for Ben and Maya to consider. http://www.chicagoreader.com *** Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal is produced by Anne Elizabeth Moore. ...
A kid takes on the machine: the 13th Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - January 29, 2019 10:55 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsMarty Quinn, close ally of Michael Madigan, has accrued a lot of power in the 13th ward, but Ben and Maya are more interested in what his 19-year-old challenger means for the machine politician. http://www.chicagoreader.com *** Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal is produced by Anne Elizab...
Shotgun objections: the 20th Ward
Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal - January 28, 2019 19:55 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThings get complicated in the ward set to tie for the most-aldermen-in-jail award, so Ben and Maya share their insights. http://www.chicagoreader.com *** Chicago Reader's Back Room Deal is produced by Anne Elizabeth Moore. Produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Imposto...
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