We do know a little more than three million people have come out to enjoy the food fest over the past 10 days. And that number is down by about half a...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.04.2009 | Chicago
Because some things are better from afar, here's a slideshow of the food, crowds and fun (?) at Taste of Chicago. If you're actually heading to Grant ...
AP | Posted 06.27.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO - A Cook County judge has found that Chicago officials acted properly when approving a plan to relocate the Chicago Children's Museum to Grant...
Mike Doyle | Posted 06.21.2009 | Chicago
Outer-neighborhood Chicagoans tend to think downtowners suffer through our central-city lives. It's hard to describe the devotion some of us feel for our high-rise 'hood.
Crain's Chicago Business | Posted 06.12.2009 | Chicago
A Cook County Circuit Court Judge on Tuesday could rescind the Chicago Children's Museum's ability to build a new two-story home in Grant Park....
Steve Parker | Posted 04.09.2009 | Green
Between Wall Street and the banks and the oil companies, and saving Detroit, which has been going out of business on a daily basis for 35 years, is there some way we aren't getting screwed?
Victoria Lautman | Posted 12.15.2008 | Chicago
I'm grateful to Obama supporters who didn't trumpet their insiderness and perks to everyone within earshot. Gratitude is one thing. Tolerating one-upsmanship another.
Hermene Hartman | Posted 12.14.2008 | Chicago
Barack Obama, whose hair is slightly grayer now, was elegant and majestic as he delivered his acceptance speech; the victory was and is ours.
Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 12.12.2008 | Chicago
Barack Obama declared victory in Grant Park amid celebration and the wafting scent of an herb now available for medicinal purposes in Michigan and Fook caught the celebration on tape. Hear it on this edition of Keeping Score In Chicago.
Jim Wallis | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
Children of color, indeed of all colors, across America woke up on Wednesday morning not just to a new day, but a new world.
Mike Doyle | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago
Drawn from the YouTube feeds of five fellow Grant Park revelers, here is how we who were down there experienced the moment when America changed forever.
Margot Rogers | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
"Do you hear the people sing, singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again. When the beating of your heart ec...
Robert Koehler | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago
Barack Obama's victory over John McCain was less important than the growth and strength, or lack thereof, of democracy itself.
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Obama did a much better job of reaching out to young, white evangelicals than Kerry did. It's therefore unsurprising that Obama employs the rhetoric of an earlier evangelical in his speeches.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama was in the No-Gloat Zone. For his very first speech as president-elect... Obama crafted a message with much of the scope and power of an inaugural address.
Huffington Post | Posted 12.07.2008 | Media
Oprah's random shoulder to cry on has been identified, and he'll be on her show Friday. Oprah Winfrey said on her show Wednesday that she did not kno...
Peter J Burns | Posted 12.07.2008 | Home
At Grant Park Obama reminded us of both Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy. I saw Dr. King's Dream come true on that stage. And Kennedy's vision was apparent in Obama's challenge to us. Kennedy and King never promised us a hand out. They promised us a fair shake.
Harris Wofford | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
At Martin Luther King's funeral in Atlanta, Bob Kennedy asked me to campaign for him in the California primary, and I took leave from the new College at Old Westbury to do so.
Robert Loerzel | Posted 12.06.2008 | Chicago
Obama's eloquent election-night speech in Grant Park is surely one of the great moments in Chicago history.
Beth Kohl | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
As I think about the event in Grant Park last night, I think about those strangers whom I will never forget, no matter the randomness of our sharing this memorable experience.
Stacy Parker Aab | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama, his staff, and his agents were brave enough and smart enough to figure out how to make him as accessible as possible without sacrificing his security.
Terence Smith | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama seems to have an almost perfect ear for the American political pulse, a kind of political GPS that tells him where people are and where they want to go.
Daniel Sinker | Posted 12.06.2008 | Chicago
Here's a slideshow of what it looked like, both from the stage and from the park itself, the day after history was made.
Jon Klane | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
I'm experiencing something unbelievable, transformational, surreal. It occurs to me that the last time I had this feeling was on the morning of 9/11. Only this time, the towers are going back up.
David Doody | Posted 12.06.2008 | Home
You have inspired millions of people across the world to believe that their voices matter. Where before they had none, today they have one. And it is loud. And it is clear. And it is spoken through you, President Obama.
WBBM Newsradio | Posted 08.06.2009 | Chicago