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Oprah is a role model, and we wish her well

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.

Sen. Burris lied about lying

The laws looks to be on Sen. Roland Burris' side -- but that doesn't mean he is not a liar.

JACK HIGGINS' CARTOONS
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Where will my disabled daughter go?

Unfairly, the reporting about the closing of the Howe Developmental Center in Tinley Park leaves readers with one conclusion: I must be a terrible mother.

If you don't like Palin, would you rather Daley or Stroger?

There's a lot of media attention on Sarah Palin, and no shortage of opinion about the former governor of Alaska, who may run for president in the next election.

Today's Columnists

Mark Brown:
'Black people don't commit suicide'

Carol Marin:
Grief alone doesn't explain Daley's rant

Mary Mitchell:
At 60, she's got attention of men again

Suzanne Ontiveros:
Winfrey brings joy, hope, levity to women's lives

Other Views:
How can Oprah leave us like this?

Getting to the bottom of Obama's bow

Dem goes rogue, likes Palin's book

Michael Sneed:
L.A. bound Oh oh Oprah!

Neil Steinberg:
Wrong handshake, cheap muffins -- but no fear of failure

The Fixer:
Osmond fan learns online shopping lesson

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This one is long overdue. For 28 years, Jack Higgins has been drawing brilliant editorial cartoons for the Chicago Sun-Times, winning every award that comes with being the best, including the Pulitzer Prize.

He knocks around the pols — they can take it. He stands up for hard-up. He celebrates the everyday heroes.

Higgins is Chicago to  the bone, brought into this world by the same obstetrician who delivered Richard M. Daley. And at some point, Jack became something more to every Sun-Times reader who ever laughed or sighed or flew into a rage over a   Higgins cartoon — a Chicago institution.

But only now — finally — has Higgins gathered up some of his finest work and put it between the covers of a book.

That book, with a foreword by Roger Ebert, is  My Kind of ’Toon, Chicago Is: Political Cartoons. It’s in the bookstores. Or get it online at amazon.com.

For more information, including dates of upcoming book signings, go to http://www.higgins.com/.

Tom McNamee,
Editorial Page editor

A collection of classic Higgins' cartoons Video: Watch Jack Higgins draw Mayor Daley Higgins' most-recent work