When I set out to cover the confirmation of an obscure Hispanic jurist last week, I had no idea I would spark the Great Tex-Mex Takedown of the 2012 presidential race. “Line of the day from WAPO’s Dana Milbank,” President Obama’s campaign manager Jim Mes

When I die,.. I want to be sent off by a black church. I go to an all white conservative church, and they don’t do none of this!… This really is a celebration,, for Sandra to scrutinize. It’s coming, I can feel it. While riding in the car with my mother,

I fear that I’m falling into a publicity trap set by my devious Tribune Company colleagues upstairs at Chicago Magazine. Lists of the best, worst, funniest, sweetest, saddest whatevers are catnip to many readers, provoking, as they do, spirited conversat

When I set out to cover the confirmation of an obscure Hispanic jurist, I had no idea I would spark the Great Tex-Mex Takedown of the 2012 presidential race. “Line of the day from WAPO’s Dana Milbank,” President Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina tweet

Former Illinois Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson (left) and Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (right) are running against each other in the 2012 Democratic primary in the 2nd District. (Credit: Brendan Hoffman/Scott Olson/Getty Images) CHICAGO (CBS) –

The phrase “we have ways of making men talk” comes from a 1935 movie entitled “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer”. It is uttered by the Oxford-educated Afghan leader, “Mohammed Khan”, as he prepares to thrust lighted bamboo slivers down the fingernails of 41s

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. needs to learn the difference between ethics and morals -- or, to use barnyard terminology, between a weasel and a dog. During an appearance before the Tribune editorial board, alongside Democratic primary opponent Debbie Halvorson

I’ve written in the past of my disdain for any group of Americans insisting that it be labeled with a hyphen. Be that group Hispanic-American, Irish-American, Cuban-American or African American, the question remains the same; why the need for the hyphen?

Three months into a bitter strike, the Graduate Students Organizing Committee sent an e-mail to supporters. “Like their refusal to bargain, their threats last fall, and the docking of prospective pay for striking,” the union wrote, “John Sexton and the N

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Why is this meaningless article on this site? Please choose your articles more carefully, and with an eye to relevance. Despicable use of the race card These clowns have been playing the race card at every hand. What an insult to the suffering hardships

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CAMBRIDGE, Md.— House Democrats are spending their retreat time on Maryland’s Eastern Shore boosting morale and finding new ways to pound Congressional Republicans ahead of the 2012 elections, with one key adviser urging them not to run from their record

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Gov. Pat Quinn "We in Illinois applaud President Obama for the vision he laid out in tonight’s State of the Union. The President put forth a blueprint for a growing economy that gives all Americans equal access to the success through hard work that has a

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Three months into a bitter strike, the Graduate Students Organizing Committee sent an e-mail to supporters. “Like their refusal to bargain, their threats last fall, and the docking of prospective pay for striking,” the union wrote, “John Sexton and the N

State Rep. Maggie Crotty (D-Oak Forest) speaks during a State Facility Closure Act hearing, regarding the Tinley Park Mental Health Center, at Georgios Banquets in Orland Hills. Closing Tinle

Will County Board Chairman Jim Moustis is done shrinking away from a fight over the proposed south suburban airport. The Frankfort Republican used the county board’s first meeting of the year Thursday to send a strong message to Gov. Pat Quinn and other