Chicago NATO Summit focuses on Afghanistan

The Chicago NATO Summit yielded some progress Sunday on reopening NATO truck routes through Pakistan to Afghanistan while the U.S., NATO and new French President Francois Hollande decided not to rock the alliance over France pulling combat troops from Afghanistan this year. President Barack Obama …Read More

• Daley appointee: Working for the taxpayers while suing them

  THE WATCHDOGS: Eight months before leaving office, Mayor Richard M. Daley hired a friend, Patricia C. Bobb, as inspector general of the Public Building Commission of Chicago in a move to block his nemesis, City Hall Inspector General Joseph Ferguson, who wanted to examine the multimillion-dollar construction deals approved by the commission and expose bogus minority subcontractors. Bobb hasn’t done much, records show. And now Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to replace her as early as next month.

• Iraq-Afghan veterans against war return medals

  Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans spoke out against the wars and NATO Sunday morning in Grant Park with an anti-war concert and rally and a march to near McCormick Place, where the NATO Summit was taking place, and at another rally at which many of them gave back their medals.

• NATO chief calls Chicago ‘perfect place for this NATO summit’

  NATO Secretary-General Anders Rasmussen on Sunday praised President Barack Obama’s leadership of NATO and the president’s choice of Chicago for the summit. Obama rival Mitt Romney wrote a letter to the editor of a Chicago newspaper arguing that Obama has provided weak leadership, not leaning …Read More