Just one week before the start of the college football season, Illinois athletic director Mike Thomas dropped a bombshell--he'd fired head coach Tim Beckman just before Beckman was due to start his fourth season in...
Last week, Republican congressman Aaron Schock announced he would leave the House at the end of the month due to a smoldering controversy over his spending habits--such as redecorating his office to look like something...
Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), just elected to the Senate in November, is off to a rousing start. At the Women's March in Washington, D.C., she invoked her history of heroism in order to stand for...
Ja'mal Green. You'd probably never heard of him until Friday, March 11. He was the man that organised the mass protest that shut down the Trump rally in Chicago. How did he manage to pull...
Speaking in Chicago yesterday, President Obama told a room of some 14,000 police chiefs from around the country that he has nothing but respect and admiration for what police officers do, but added that he...
When parents drop their kids off at school, their hope is that their child will be taken care of and looked after. But what one Chicago teacher did to a special needs child is despicable...
Gun violence is at an all-time high in the great city of Chicago, and some residents of The Windy City held a rally Thursday at?St. George's Catholic Church to discuss the issue. The featured speaker...
We've seen an alarming spike in hate crimes and hate-motivated incidents since Donald Trump's upset victory. It's naturally made a lot of people wonder--are we returning to the days when hate and bigotry could occur...
A bomb was detonated at a woman's bathroom at a Target in Chicago suburb, Evanston, Illinois. The police are not completely sure if this is related to the outcry over Target's trans-friendly bathroom policy.
The police...
One of the most striking anecdotes of the 2016 presidential campaign was the large number of ancestrally Republican newspapers who refused to endorse Donald Trump. In many cases, they broke decades-long traditions to either endorse...
A doctor in Chicago has been suspended over allegations that he makes his own unlicensed vaccines from ingredients as unlikely as cat saliva and vodka.
Investigators visited the surgery of Dr. Ming Te Lin in the suburb...
Scott Michael Greene, a white man Urbandale, Iowa shot and killed two police officers last night as they were sitting in their patrol cars. There appeared to be no altercation between him and either cop...
In a time when our electoral process is under attack like never before, it's encouraging to see some local and state governments doing right by the citizens they represent.
The 2016 presidential election demonstrated the lowest...
The latest entry in "How Not To Handle A Crisis" comes from United Airlines. On Sunday, the world's third-largest airline came under well-deserved fire after a passenger was dragged screaming and bloodied from a supposedly...
A Nazi is running for the House of Representatives.
In Tuesday's Illinois primary, 70-year-old Arthur Jones, running unopposed, secured the Republican nomination to represent the Chicago-area's third congressional district.
If he beats his democratic opponent, incumbent Rep. Dan Lipinski,...
The Chicago Police Department had 150 girls attend the second annual "Daddy Daughter Dance" that they sponsor. Unfortunately, dozens of these girls that attended don't have fathers. Well, some very special officers stepped up and...
The Land of Lincoln has seen better days. It's been 11 months since Illinois was operating with a budget. During that time legislators have fought with each other, battled Republican Governor Bruce Rauner, and generally...
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On Sunday, I told you about Jonathan Larson, a delivery driver for Rosebud Italian Specialties and Pizzeria in Naperville, Illinois who is suffering from cancer of the brain and spine. Last week, he...
Yesterday, Republican Congressman Aaron Schock of Illinois abruptly announced his resignation three months into his fourth term in the wake of a tsunami of questions about his spending. Well, it turns out that one of...
Who is Anita? Well, the Anita behind the passionate hashtag #ByeAnita, is none other than Chicago’s Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez. Why people on Twitter – and the people of Cook County – are...
