It’s just a first step. The bill introduced in Congress by Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., is not going to be the final result when the day comes that Congress and President Obama are put in a position of having to approve something that offers this nation [...]
I never realized that cleaning products and pawn shops were so profitable.
Toni Preckwinkle, the Chicago alderman who’d like to run on what’s left of Barack Obama’s coattails for the presidency of Cook County Board, is counting on getting a significant share of the women’s vote if her campaign is to succeed come Feb. 2.
What does it say for Judy Baar Topinka that she is the lone Republican who got the support of the leading labor union that represents state government employees?
On the surface, it seems like a gesture of respect and equal time -- the giant menorah erected in Daley Plaza just a few dozen feet from the city's official Christmas tree.
Two years ago, Barack Obama was an obscure Illinois official who some people argued should not be considered a legitimate candidate for the presidency of the United States.
It was with interest that I read the news item published Monday by the Chicago Tribune's website -- federal prosecutors are likely to come up with a new indictment against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich to try to ensure that the "guilty" verdict they are desperately seeking [...]
All too often, I read and hear rhetoric from people who claim we as a society should emphasize our commonalities instead of trying to be individuals, particularly when it comes to racial and ethnic differences among us.
Of course, what that usually means is that the person in question views [...]
The Damaso Marte whom I recall pitching for the Chicago White Sox back in the mid-2000s (including the ballclub that won the World Series in 2005) may have had outstanding “stuff.”
We have exactly three months from Monday until the primary Election Day in Illinois. Then, we have exactly 9 more months until the general election is complete, and we can be spared the nonsense that typically fills the “silly season.”
I’ll give the “Mighty Quinn” the benefit of the doubt when he says now that he’s inclined to sign into law a measure that would impose limits on campaign contributions.
In a sense, every Latino ballplayer who happens to play for a ball club that makes it to the World Series is trying to live up to the image of Roberto Clemente.
The World Series begins Wednesday, and some of us will take some amusement at the sight and sound of Ozzie Guillen offering “astute” commentary about the level of play.
Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., gave people who are eager for immigration reform yet another promise that action will be taken by Congress come 2010.
In my mind, the World Series this year just got interesting.
I have been to enough rallies and events as a reporter-type person in which the conservative opposition to Barack Obama vents its views that I have repeatedly heard how the incumbent U.S. president is “Hitler-esque.”
The Rayburn Building will be the scene of a program meant to try to persuade people to put aside partisan politics and approve something resembling a reform in the way medical care is paid for. Photograph provided by The Architect of the Capitol. 
There are those people who want to believe that “guilt by association” with now-impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich will cause many Democrats to go down to defeat come Election Day, but a pair of surveys make me wonder if continued screeching of Milorod’s name will be enough [...]
I’m curious to see the so-called Chicago zoned coverage that is being proposed by the New York Times as a way of strengthening that newspaper’s position as a national publication.
There are times when people do things politically just because they think the “time” is right, and that waiting for a more opportune moment would be waiting for something that will never occur.
I spent an hour Thursday night watching PBS and their broadcast of the “Fiesta Latina” that was staged on the south lawn of the White House, where Barack Obama staged a concert featuring musicians of the various genres that get lumped by Anglo America as “Latino [...]
Back in the days when I was a reporter-type person covering the Illinois Legislature, one of the few legislators willing to speak his mind on a regular basis was then-state Sen. Denny Jacobs, D-East Moline.
It’s going to be a common sight for the next few days at the Statehouse in Springpatch – various groups are going to send people to the Capitol in hopes of rallying in the rotunda (to the left) and urging the General Assembly to get off [...]
I’ll state it up front. Today, I’m a grumpy old man who’s going to tell you how much better things were when I was young. So if you’re one of those 18-year-olds who can’t handle being reminded that there was a Planet Earth and a society [...]
The Republican Party’s field of candidates for Illinois governor is a mass of candidates of varying ideological thought processes, including a pair of candidates who are going to try to pass themselves off as The Man who can bring back the glory days of 1995 and [...]
My home state is about to become yet the latest place where the xenophobes will contend that the world is going to hell in a hand basket, all because some of us would like a more accurate recounting of history.
Even if President Barack Obama had unanimous political support across the nation, there’s no way he could have done anything in his first nine months as president that would legitimately make him worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.
I couldn’t help but notice Friday the portion of the University of Chicago’s website devoted to the fact that so many recipients of the Nobel prizes are faculty, former students or have some other connection to the Hyde Park-based university.
It’s “tick off” time.
