Gov. Quinn, consider how the following negative political ad might play out on television.
To no one's surprise, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger once again on Monday did his one-two punch on taxpayers.
The hottest video game of the year, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," offers enough hard-core action to sate the most critical gamer -- and one scene that's creating big controversy.
Oprah Winfrey has said one of her favorite books growing up was A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith, a novel about a smart girl with a big heart who blossoms beautifully in a world of poverty, violence and family disintegration.
The laws looks to be on Sen. Roland Burris' side -- but that doesn't mean he is not a liar.
Illinois is an odd state in which public officials can routinely rip off the taxpayers but then are allowed their pensions when they retire.
Oprah Winfrey has said one of her favorite books growing up was “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn” by Betty Smith, a novel about a smart girl with a big heart who blossoms beautifully in a world of poverty, violence and family disintegration.
The laws looks to be on Senator Roland Burris’ side — but that doesn’t mean he is not a liar.
Maybe the Bears need a little more time to put their game faces on.
The Great Mammogram Debate is just of a taste of what's to come -- or what we hope will come.
Pity the poor FBI agents who had to follow Studs Terkel around and interview their "confidential sources" to uncover what he was up to.
So, this is what democracy looks like. We hadn't seen it for a while on the Cook County Board.
Michael Scott is the kind of guy who could have moved up and out and never looked back.
America's federal prisons are full of people who scare the hell out of us -- mob hit men, mass murderers and international terrorists.
The worst apologies are those for which you ought to issue another apology.
In 2006, the top lawyer for the City of Chicago, Corporation Counsel Mara Georges, testified in federal court that she had been unaware that politics played a role in city hiring before the huge investigation broke involving the mayor's patronage chief, Robert Sorich, and the political hiring office he ran for the mayor.
The trauma of obesity never goes away. In fact, it just seems to get worse as we age.
Legal fireworks involving a possibly innocent prisoner and the journalism students investigating his case are flying in Cook County.
Sometimes letting go is the greatest act of love. By all accounts, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her husband, John, had a wonderful marriage. They met as law students, were married in 1952 and never flagged in their devotion to each other.
For decades, Chicago has maintained an island of racially integrated schools in a sea of segregated ones.
It has been less than a week since the massacre at Fort Hood, and already potentially missed warning signals stand out starkly against a backdrop of 13 dead soldiers and dozens more who were wounded.
It's easy to forget the United Statet is fighting two wars. The battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq are thousands of miles away and life -- for most of us -- carries on uninterrupted.
It ranks among the strangest-sounding lawsuits ever. The City of Chicago is suing the City of Chicago to reveal what advice the City of Chicago gave to city employees over a questionable city contract.
We don't know. We don't know what drove suspected gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan to open fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday.
Many have asked whether the campaign finance bill now sitting on Gov. Quinn's desk constitutes meaningful reform.
Rep. Mark Kirk has long been a voice of reason in Illinois. A moderate Republican with an independent streak, Kirk isn't known for pandering.
We understand the sentiment behind Ald. Eugene Schulter's complaint that too many suburbanites are crowding into the free concerts at Millennium Park, taking seats from city dwellers.
Of all President Obama's efforts to jump-start the economy, his Cash for Clunkers program easily has been the most popular.
Imagine you are a 17-year-old girl looking to get an abortion. You've made up your mind but fear telling your parents. It could mean getting kicked out of your home, beaten up or worse.
Gov. Quinn and Comptroller Dan Hynes, who are squaring off in the Democratic primary race for governor, are both smart and substantive candidates.
Imagine going on the Internet one day and finding that it's taking a quite a bit longer than usual to download a clip from Jon Stewart's show.
So what if our man-eating lions were only man-snacking lions, we're still proud of them.
It's property tax bill time, and if you're like many Chicago area residents, you're looking for which politician to blame -- or perhaps throttle -- for your increase.
Don't believe anybody who says the cowardly decision to continue free bus and train rides for Chicago area senior citizens was actually about helping seniors.
The dispute over how many Cook County commissioners should be needed to override a veto by County Board President Todd Stroger is not, at its core, about Stroger or his hated sales tax increase.
All those years when our archenemy, Tribune Co., owned the Chicago Cubs, we cheered for the team all the same.
When it comes to campaign finance reform, state lawmakers have made it further down the field of play than we ever believed possible.
One of the worst-kept secrets in Illinois is out: Our state elementary school tests are way too easy.
When mob killer Nick Calabrese decided to cooperate with the FBI, federal agents considered who might want to kill him.
No one wants to kill a beautiful garden. Much less a community garden in a forlorn patch of the South Side, and much less a garden that straddles the divide between Hyde Park and its poorer neighbor, Woodlawn.
When Chicago began closing grammar schools in 2001, Chicago Public Schools officials promised a dramatically better education for those displaced kids.
There's nothing to focus the managerial mind like a deficit of $500 million or so.
Some kids get paid to get good grades. Some adults get paid to stop smoking.
Chicago has learned a couple of big lessons from its experiment in selling off major assets such as the Chicago Skyway and the parking meters.
