Below are our daily picks from the Illinois blogosphere and media at large:
Midterm Examination
The Reader's Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke give only adequate midterm grades to a new class of rookie aldermen who promised to bring accountability and integrity to what was widely dismissed as a rubber-stamp City Council.
Saving Chrysler?
Will bankruptcy revive the ailing auto company Chrysler? Jonathan Cohn reports that it is a possibility.
How Can Rights Feel So Wrong?
As the Supreme Court debates whether Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is still necessary, Slate's Dahlia Lithwick says the conservative justices are themselves acting as legislators.
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