Argh! Sneed was tipped a week ago not to be surprised if Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who was favored in both gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races, decided to keep her job.
Watch for Republican state Sen. Kirk Dillard to make his run for governor official Wednesday as he begins a two-day tour of Illinois to get the word out.
Paleontologist Sue Hendrickson, who discovered the Field Museum's famous T-Rex "Sue," lives in Honduras -- and has dispatched urgent messages to her friends about trouble there.
It's already begun: Sneed hears Mayor Daley has not only pulled the plug on supporting embattled Cook County Board President Todd Stroger for re-election, but he has hatched plans to back Ald. Toni Preckwinkle for the Cook County Board presidency.
Sneed's column on radio reflections and the retirement of old-time radio host Chuck Schaden netted many responses from readers yearning for the golden age of radio. Among them:
Good luck/bad fortune: Sneed is told the wife of a Cicero cop charged with stealing $70,000 from the Police Benevolent Association fund won a $2 million Illinois lottery prize last March.
A dotcom comedy! Sneed hears Cook County government chose to send an alert by e-mail to inform employees their Internet system had gone down Tuesday morning.
I don't stream, I don't Twitter, I don't do Facebook. But at 1 p.m. most Saturdays, I do the radio.
Psssst! The sister of swamp-sodden Patti Blagojevich is heading to the rescue ... via Facebook!
Sneed hears Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, who has been itching to get back into the courtroom, will do just that.
Sneed hears rumbles Fay Levin, a huge President Obama supporter/fund-raiser, is being eyed as the next U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands by the Obama administration.
