Managing Director and Resident Scholar at the McCormick Freedom Museum
Nepotism is the rule of the day as the Stroger kin fills more than 20 county offices, drawing combined salaries in excess of $2M. Stroger intends to seek reelection, but it's hard to see him weathering an ultra-competitive primary with such shaky credentials.
The fact that Second City comics in the heart of Chicago are successfully playing to GOP-fueled fears of rationing should raise a bright red warning flag at the White House.
staff writer in corporate communications at Ragan Communications
Nothing that Paul Vallas, Mayor Daley or Arne Duncan did in the last 15 years has had any significant effect on the number of CPS students who can read, write and do basic math acceptably. It's all an illusion.
Audiences are not behaving the way they used to and given that the whole model for American performing arts assumes a predictable pattern of behavior, this is making us think.
Maybe CTA President Richard Rodriguez should spend less time driving to work and more time attending to the system that 1.5 million riders a day depend on to get around Chicago.
While the city and residents have embraced the river, the governmental agency responsible for the waterway continues to turn its back to the river and consider it an open sewer.
Esther J. Cepeda is an opinion journalist and expert on the issues of U.S. Hispanics/Latinos. She writes about that and much, much more on www.600words.com
It's been 22 months since Isai mounted his rickety bicycle to pedal from the suburbs of Chicago to Argentina and back up to Venezuela to raise money for low-income students to go to college.
If you're planning a cookout for this most patriotic of days, here's an opportunity to celebrate the American dream. Because hot dog culture is American history.
Jimmy Seidita blogs about environmental issues in the Chicago region.
Kirk was the only Republican from the Midwest to vote for the climate bill. Pleased and a little surprised, I looked at his Facebook and got an eyeful of the crapstorm that has been unleashed upon him.
Physician and Executive Director, Chicago chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility
I am not sure in which alternate reality these Conservative nay-sayers live, but as a primary care doctor working with uninsured patients, I can assure you that health care has been rationed in the US for years.