The whole notion of "telling war stories" has gotten watered down over the years, until it's now used to describe any group of people swapping tales about their job exploits.
Dr. Robert Weinstein was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison. The name means nothing to most of you, I realize, which is a shame, because you sure know a lot about his longtime partner, Stuart Levine, the crook who brought down the Blagojevich administration.
Remember how a Secret Service agent boarded a Metra train this past winter while wearing his gun, which freaked out a ticket agent, who alerted police, who called in a SWAT team, which freaked out the rest of the passengers as the heavily armed officers swooped down on the unsuspecting Secret Service guy?
Adam Andrzejewski, an announced Republican candidate for governor, sent out a press release Monday to inform everyone that he had made public his income tax returns in the interest of transparency.
With any luck, Sen. Roland Burris will see such vindication in a Downstate prosecutor's decision not to charge him with perjury that he'll try to use it as a basis to run in 2010.
During the great home run chase of 1998, a summer of exhilaration we now know to have been built on the lie of performance-enhancing drugs, Sammy Sosa experienced his finest hours -- and they didn't all take place with a bat in his hands.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but we really are going to have to raise taxes in Illinois to dig our way out of this state budget mess. That means an income tax increase most likely.
It took the blood of John Dillinger --and an upcoming movie about the notorious bank robber -- to help veteran WLS radio newsman Jim Johnson make peace with the legacy of his late father, Charley.
When a 19-year-old Downers Grove man crashed through a closed elevator door near the campus of Iowa State University last weekend and plunged to his death, the reaction was of disbelief that such a fluke accident could even be possible.
Tim Allen must be stopped. At best, however, I fear we can only hope to contain him.
Chicago Sun-Times readers opened their newspapers Tuesday to something I don't think they've ever previously seen during four decades of Mayor Daleys: that's one member of the Daley family publicly throwing another member of the close-knit clan under the bus.
Steve Thompson's car was booted the week before last because he owed the city of Chicago 20 cents.
