Patrick Dent

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Patrick Dent is a freelance writer and editor living in Chicago.

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Keeping the Rent Low in Chicago’s South Shore

Why fighting investment guarantees disinvestment.

February 13, 2026

Chicago’s Confederacy of Dunces, the Marxist Kind

How Chicago ended up governed by people unfit to govern anything.

January 9, 2026

Will His Honor’s Biography Be Titled Into the Valley of Death?

The non-stop headlines cannot help but evoke the classic account of stupidity, futility, and doom.

December 17, 2025

Chicago’s New Royal Family

Chuy García decided to pull a fast one. The Democrats may say there are no kings — but in Chicago, power is inherited all the same.

November 6, 2025