It sounds arrogant--"I'm going to find a new way to write about politics" -- but that was my objective with Destiny Calling: How the People Elected Barack Obama. A new kind of history was being written.
The Chicago Board of Education's reimbursement process has been shrouded in mystery ever since Michael Scott used his board credit card to take his wife to Copenhagen for the Olympic bash.
Twenty-one lives. Somebody had to pay. And it might even seem like common sense for a judge to sentence E2 club owners Dwain Kyles and Calvin Hollins to serve an unprecedented two years in prison.
Amal Abusumayah, a 28-year-old American mother of four young girls, was going about her usual shopping when she was randomly treated to a dose of derogatory comments about her faith.
Take it from someone who remembers the last time a governor was recalled: Having the power to recall the governor might feel empowering, but that feeling is temporary at best.
Some essential city services are too important to do without. Alarmingly, Mayor Daley's 2010 budget plan calls for a $2.1 million funding reduction (6.7% cut) for public health.
A small but growing circle of Illinois candidates grasps that jobs -- not our famed corruption scandals or income tax plans -- are the key issue to win the 2010 elections here.
This week, powers that be in Chicago will demolish a little work by Mies van der Rohe. A small part of his extraordinarily important campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology will bite the dust.
I read all the stories this week about the late Studs Terkel and his FBI file. To my dismay, they pretended to discover the ironic revelation that he applied to work for the FBI in the early 1930s.
I majored in economics -- a field that entails heaps of calculus -- but the state thinks I'm not qualified to teach math. This bizarre situation is a result of the Board of Ed's certification requirements.
The water rich communities of the Great Lakes region do not understand the nature and value of their most precious resource.
I'm less scared of the possibility of an armed Islamic radical coming into my life than I am about the everyday bigots.
Sad to say I Space's tenure as UIC's gallery outpost is over, a result of cost-cutting. Logic indicates they'll be back. I hope it's soon.
