Chicago

Thank You, Mr. President

Joe Scarborough | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Joe Scarborough, Chicago, Barack Obama, Morning Joe, Olympics, 2016 Olympics, Joe Scarborough Olympics, Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro-Brazil, Chicago Olympics, Chicago 2016, Media News

Count me as one conservative who is disappointed that President Obama's hometown will not be hosting the 2016 Olympic Games.

Read Post

Chicago Blues

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Obama, Chicago, Olympics, 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympics, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Olympic Bid, 2016 Rio Olympics, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

Ironically, the city most known for its hardball politics couldn't overcome the internal politics of the Olympic Committee to make it past the first round of voting for the 2016 Games.

Read Post

Olympic Athletes At Springs Training Center "Bummed" By IOC's Chicago Snub

The Denver Post | John Meyer | Posted 12.02.2009 | Denver

Read More: Olympic Training Facility, Chicago, Rio De Janeiro, Cheryl Haworth, Copenhagen, Colorado, Obama, Colorado Springs, Olympics, Denver News

COLORADO SPRINGS -- About 100 Olympic athletes and staff were stricken with shock and silence this morning when International Olympic Committee presid...

Read Whole Story

Gunning for Chicago

Mike Quigley | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Guns, Handgun Ban, Chicago, Second Amendment, United States vs. Miller, Court Cases, Supreme Court, Mcdonald vs. City of Chicago, Legal News, Gun Rights, Chicago News

The Supreme Court has agreed to review McDonald vs. City of Chicago, a case that challenges whether or not our local handgun ban is legal. It is a development that deeply concerns me.

Read Post

Chicago, Obama, the Olympics, and the Murder of Derrion Albert

Kevin Powell | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: 2016 Olympics, Derrion Albert, President Obama, Chicago, Teen Violence, Obama Chicago Olympics, Barack Obama Olympics, Obama Olympics, Chicago Murder, Chicago News

Chicago does not deserve the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. What the people of Chicago deserve is a domestic Marshall Plan -- an action agenda that will, once and for all, deal with the city's problems.

Read Post

Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid and the School Children Killings

Charles Butler | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: 2016, Politics, Black America, Chicago, Chicago Olympics, Barack Obama, Chicago 2016, Michelle Obama, Chicago News

It seems to me that President Obama and Mayor Daley are more concerned about securing the Olympics for the city of Chicago than the safety of the CPS students in the city.

Read Post

Obama Trip To Copenhagen Sparks Olympic-Sized Derangement

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fearmongering, Chicago Olympic Bid, Media Criticism, Chicago, Chicago Olympics, Obama Chicago Olympics, Obama Olympics, Obama Copenhagen, Politics News

Of course, if you are not concerned about the awesomely ruinous opportunity cost to safety and prosperity that a brief jaunt to Denmark represents, surely you are worried about all the Chicago Machine Olympic corruption.

Read Whole Story

Obama's Big Question: To Go or Not to Go, Copenhagen That is

Michael Russnow | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Winter Olympics, Chicago, Tony Blair, Christopher Bond, Anderson Cooper, South America, Cbs, International Olympic Committee, Diane Sawyer, Missouri, London, Rio De Janeiro, Katie Couric, Hans Christian Andersen, Tivoli Gardens, Russia, Los Angeles Times, Vladimir Putin, Ram Productions, General Mcchrystal, Summer Olympics, Sochi, Abc, Michelle Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Copenhagen, Lou Dobbs, Nbc, Food Channel, Funen Island, Democrats, Barack Obama, Brian Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Cnn, Great Britain, Michael Russnow, Oprah, Fox News, Afghanistan, Republicans, Bill O'Reilly, Denmark, Ioc, Newspapers, William Shakespeare, David Letterman, Msnbc, Politics News

Obama is not a miracle maker, but he will have at least tried to win the IOC bid. And during it all, he and the government will continue in any necessary actions.

Read Post

Obama's Olympic Error

Dave Zirin | Posted 11.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Olympics, Michelle Obama, Olympics, Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicago Olympics Protest, Chicago City Hall, International Olympic Committee, Washington Park, Mayor Daley, g20 Pittsburgh, No Games Chicago, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

The very idea that Chicago could be the setting for the Olympics might have been hatched by Jon Stewart for a four-year supply of comedic fodder.

Read Post

How Will Chicago Top Beijing's Olympics? Easy!

Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 11.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Politics, Olympics, Chicago, China Economy, Barack Obama, Rod Blagojevich, Chicago Corruption, Roland Burris, 2008 Olympics, Bucket Boys, Chicago Olympic Bid, Chicago Olympics, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

Let's show the world what Chicago culture is all about with some new events: Relay races with plain white envelope hand-offs. Blame volleyball. Synchronized aldermen.

Read Post

Fed Held Back As Evidence Mounted On Subprime Loan Abuses

Washington Post | Binyamin Appelbaum | Posted 11.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Banks, Foreclosure, Bank Affiliates, Chicago, Regulate, Wells Fargo, Lending, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, Subprime Mortgages, Regulation, Business News

Under a policy quietly formalized in 1998, the Fed refused to police lenders' compliance with federal laws protecting borrowers, despite repeated urgi...

Read Whole Story

Doctors Mad As Hell Over Health Care In Chicago

Ellen Gill | Posted 11.26.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Single Payer, Health Care Reform, Mad as Hell Doctors' Cross Country Tour, Chicago, Health Care, Bearing Witness 2.0, Chicago News

The Mad As Hell Doctors are a group of physicians who are spending September driving from Portland to Washington, D.C., seeking a meeting with President Obama.

Read Post

An Olympic Guarantee You Can Count On

Alden Loury | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Gentrication, Draper and Kramer, Ioc, Chicago Olympic Bid, Lake Meadows, 1996 Olympics, Chicago, Michael Reese Hospital, Atlanta, Chicago 2016, Bronzeville, Mayor Daley, Developers, The Chicago Reporter, Washington Park, Olympics Displacement, Chicago Olympics, Atlanta Olympics, Chicago News

Olympics have displaced more than two million people in the last 20 years, especially minorities and the poor. With or without the Games, we're witnessing the clearing of two miles of lakefront property.

Read Post

The Politics of AIDS and Health Care Reform

Johnathon Briggs | Posted 11.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Health Care Reform, Cdc, Obama, Hiv, Chicago, Prevention, Aids, Gay Issues, African-American Issues, Lgbt, Health Care, Chicago News

50 percent of all those living with HIV currently lack needed medical care. The impact of health reform on efforts to control the epidemic could be profound.

Read Post

The Day Michael Miner Killed Commentary

Mike Doyle | Posted 11.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Reader, Local Columnists, Commentary, Chicago Sun-Times, Michael Miner, Mike Royko, Unemployment, Chicago, Death of Newspapers, Journalism, Chicago News

Miner's less than well-meaning suggestion to dispense with commentary and turn Chicago's columnists into service-oriented seat-warmers for journalists was nothing short of cowardly.

Read Post

Media Mud Pies: CNN's Embarrassing Response to Fox

Linda Milazzo | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media

Read More: War on Afghanistan, First Amendment, President Obama, Teabaggers, Chicago, Progressives, Phil Donahue, 9/11, Peace, America, Journalism, Msnbc, Infrastructure, Social Media, Corporate Media, Washington Post, State Senator Obama, Rick Sanchez, Fox, War on Iraq, Jessie Jackson, Washington DC, Netherlands, Barack Obama, Fourth Estate, Afghanistan War, Anti-War, Fox News, Cnn, 9/12, Saddam Hussein, Military Industrial Complex, Tv, Protests, Iraq War, Conservative Right, Glenn Beck, Conservatives, Spain, Media News

In response to Fox's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad.

Read Post

Booty (Re)Call With Typhanie Monique

Robert Rodi | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago

Jazz is Apollonian; funk, Dionysian. And the Typhanie Monique who fronts the Booty Movement Coalition is a far cry from her slinky jazz twin; she's a Bacchante in blue jeans.

Read Post

Michelle Obama On Chicago Olympics: Emotional Pitch Planned, "There Won't Be A Dry Eye"

Bloomberg.com | John McCormick | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Sports, Valerie Jarrett, Chicago Olympics, Michelle Obama First Lady, Michelle Obama, International Olympic Committee, Chicago, Obama Chicago Olympics, Obama Chicago, Obama Copenhagen, 2016 Olympics, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

A top White House adviser said first lady Michelle Obama is planning to make a dramatic presentation when she offers the closing argument for the bid...

Read Whole Story

Kym Krocza: Fox Lake Teacher Allegedly Paid Students For Housework With Zoloft, Marijuana, Alcohol

Chicago Sun-Times | Dan Rozek | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Math Teacher, School, Marijuana, Teacher, Alcohol, Housework, Chicago, Fox Lake, Students, Crime, Kym Krocza, Zoloft, Chicago News

A teacher at a Fox Lake high school recruited two teenage girls to do chores around her home -- then paid the 14-year-olds for their work with marijua...

Read Whole Story

Honest-Services Fraud: Law Used To Indict Blagojevich Challenged As Vague

AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Supreme Court, Jeffrey Skilling, Blagojevich, Springfield, Conrad Black, Chicago, Rod Blagojevich, Politics, Vague, Honest-Services Fraud, George Ryan, Corruption, Illinois, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Among the corruption charges faced by former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is a statute of just 28 words with enough pop to send big n...

Read Whole Story

Christopher Kelly Dead: Ex-Blagojevich Fundraiser Found Dead Just Days Before Prison Sentence Was Set To Begin

AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Corruption, Blagojevich, Blagojevich Scandal, Christopher Kelly, Politics, Kelly Dead, Rod Blagojevich, Chicago, Illinois, Fundraiser, Fundraising, Christopher Kelly Dead, Chris Kelly Dead, Blagojevich Corruption, Chicago News

CHICAGO — A former chief fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich died Saturday, just days before he was to begin serving at least ei...

Read Whole Story

August: Osage Country: Southern Gothic Soap Sitcom Theatre

Brad Schreiber | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: August: Osage County, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, Theatre, Broadway, Theater, Tracy Letts, Pulitzer Prize, Entertainment News

One wonders if there is some theatre ordinance that requires every Southern-themed play in this country to deal with incest. It is as if the fear of boring the audience has been taken to the zenith of tawdry complication.

Read Post

The Opening of the Fall Art Season; Chicago Art is Kicking

Paul Klein | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Madeleine Grynsztejn, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Art Galleries, Art Galleries, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Chicago-Art-Institute, Chicago, Chicago News

It's going to be fun watching the MCA, the runt of Chicago's 'big' museums, come from behind to become a trendsetting, innovative role model for the 21st Century museum.

Read Post

All Kids Need Better Access to Science

Walter Massey | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Public Schools, Science Chicago, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Blacks, Chicago, Science Education, Civil Rights, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Chicago News

The need for identifiable and celebrated minority science figures is no less urgent today than it was during the Civil Rights era.

Read Post

Sigg Says Sorry, Patagonia Dumps Sigg

Sarah Newman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Coca-Cola, Del Monte, Chicago, Takepart, Patagonia, Bpa, Sigg, California, Green News

The anti-BPA movement is spreading nationwide. Chicago has already banned the toxin and legislation is currently pending in California

Read Post

Chicago

HuffPost Social News connects you with friends and the news