CCM Blog Posts | Chicago Civic Media

This is our frequently-updated four minute introduction to Chicago FIXIT

Chicago can solve violence on it's own.

Jul 30, 2017

Chicago is the poster child for urban violence in America. That's the downside. The upside is that Chicago is poised to solve its...

Jul 28, 2017

Why Nothing Gets Done in Washington or Springfield

Jul 15, 2017

Broken government in Springfield and Washington is due to a lack of good old-fashioned dealmakers. In response, I argue in this Medium...

Jul 1, 2017

The solution is to supplement this polarizing discourse with issue-centered discourse that de-polarizes politics by making citizens and...

Jun 13, 2017

How can Chicago solve violence? Think Chicago FIXIT: rule-governed, voter-driven prime time reality TV enhanced by other Chicago media.

Mar 22, 2017

This election-eve piece bypassed the question of who would win the election in order to raise and answer a larger and, I think, more...

Nov 8, 2016

Set in year 2026, this 600-word future history shows how a new kind of political media enabled Chicago, Illinois and the United States to...

Jun 14, 2016

At a Chicago City Data User Group meeting. Scroll down. Prof. Goldsmith is the author of Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of...

Sep 2, 2015

In Seven Steps: How Bruce Rauner Ended the War for Illinois and Turned Illinois Around An imaginary "Future History" showing how a...

Aug 24, 2015

A yearlong series of monthly "AUSTIN WORKING TOGETHER" televised town hall meetingsdesigned to reduce youth violence and improve...

Jun 8, 2015

May 15, 2015