Our daughter has been friends for years with kids whose parents are illegal immigrants. If more Americans shared our experience, perhaps the GOP would not have succeeded in filibustering the DREAM Act.
On both a national and local level, women reached historic milestones in public office -- but of all the candidates currently running for mayor of Chicago, only one is a woman.
With 2011 right around the corner, chances are that you'd like to try something new. Here are a few folks with fantasy careers that I've happened upon. Perhaps one may inspire you.
We have heard repeatedly from the carp team that the electric barrier erected by the Corps to shoo away the invaders, by shocking the water, is keeping the fish out. But evidence shows it doesn't really work.
Quinn's administration is planning to move forward next week with an expanded program to sell a big chunk of the state's $5.3 billion of vendor-owed debt to Wall Street banks and hedge funds.
As the father of a ballerina I wanted to see Black Swan again, this time with her ballet teacher of many years. It was a completely different experience.
I never thought Rev. Meeks wanted to be Mayor, really. First, he dilly-dallied. Then, he claimed that the only way he could or would do it would be to remain as pastor of his church.
Legislative leaders in Springfield are readying a mammoth education reform package aimed primarily at curtailing the power of the state's teachers unions, a shocking turn of events.
Rahm Emanuel has maintained sufficient links with Chicago and the state of Illinois even after leaving and has never displayed an intention to leave permanently.
Wishes don't come true often but for 35 million Americans, health care reform is about as close as it gets to a Christmas miracle. Apparently Cardinal George didn't get the memo.
While states across the country are reducing their prison populations, Illinois has added more than 3,000 inmates, the equivalent of a large prison.
Peter Sagal stopped by to discuss his show, career and his work on... Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.
For 30 years, Chicago's venerable weekly showcase for vintage and classic films has operated out of the most unlikely of movie theatres located on the second floor of a bank.
The federal Department of Health and Human Services has announced that it will force existing low-performing Head Start programs to compete for their federal funding.
Is it possible a candidate could emerge within or outside the Democratic Party who could ignite not just the true believers, but the whole country? Obama himself was once such a candidate.
The 2010 Chicago Civic Health Index measures democratic participation among regional residents.
Big name sports columnists -- the Michael Wilbons of the world -- are a luxury that, in penny-pinching days, newspapers can ill afford.
Even after an individual has paid their debt to society, society, without the authority granted by a gavel, functionally imposes a life sentence of economic hardship on those who have been incarcerated.
Made with Bombay Sapphire gin, Domaine De Canton, orange marmalade, egg white and UG's secret syrup, the pièce de résistance is when the General is set on fire tableside.
Brian Dickie, 2010.12.21
Christine Bork, 2010.12.20