Columns
-
Why Lake County's top prosecutor isn't bailing on the SAFE-T ActOct 07, 2022 5:20 am - Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow questions whether lawmakers behind Illinois' controversial SAFE-T Act "are deliberately trying to destroy public order." McHen...
-
Jim O'Donnell: Place blame on White Sox flop where it belongs: Jerry ReinsdorfOct 07, 2022 1:00 am - MAYBE IT'S NOT COMPLETELY fair to call all of the current Chicago sports media "mousey." But if a block of cheese was thrown into any media room or sports talk show arou...
-
Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: First the pandemic, then the purgeOct 07, 2022 1:00 am - "The pandemic is over, but the purge continues," Stephen Crampton, senior counsel for the conservative Thomas More Society told me. We were talking about Zach Loesch, a ...
-
Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Truman walks in, Hamilton moves outOct 07, 2022 1:00 am - Bye, Alexander Hamilton, you're out. Harry Truman, you're in. The gorgeous Capitol Rotunda statues are so heavy that if one arrives, one must go. Presidents take precede...
-
Neighbors in the News: Maine East social science chair wins civic leadership awardOct 06, 2022 6:00 am - • Billson Rasavongxay, Maine East Social Science Department chairman, was honored with the Carolyn Pereira Civic Leadership Award at this year's Illinois Democracy Schoo...
-
Talent, hard work propel Naperville skater-turned-actor as an understudy in 'The Notebook'Oct 06, 2022 6:00 am - You won't see Alex Benoit on stage every night in "The Notebook." But if you do see him during Chicago Shakespeare Theater's world premiere, it's likely because the show...
-
Syndicated columnist Byron York: Joe Biden, the 82 year-old candidateOct 06, 2022 1:00 am - There's a new report from NBC News that President Joe Biden has told a confidant - the Rev. Al Sharpton, of all people - that he will run for reelection in 2024. It's no...
-
O'Donnell: Jerry Vainisi - GM of the Super Bowl champion Bears - was 'a Halas guy' to the endOct 06, 2022 1:00 am - WHEN JERRY VAINISI WAS abruptly ousted as general manager of the Bears in 1987 - less than 14 months after the team's iconic victory in Super Bowl 20 - Mike Ditka cried....
-
Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Should state courts enforce state constitutions?Oct 06, 2022 1:00 am - This might be the first time the Conference of Chief Justices, the group representing the top courts in all 50 states, has weighed in to an ideologically charged Supreme...
-
Comedian Steven Wright brings his droll observations to North Shore Center Oct. 6Oct 05, 2022 11:00 pm - Steven Wright doesn't write jokes. He doesn't have to. For more than 40 years, Wright's comedy - delivered in his distinctive deadpan style - has consisted of droll obs...