Ebenezer Scrooge is said to be strictly a fictional creation, a character in a book by Charles Dickens. You could've fooled me. If not the man himself, his true spirit of me-me-me selfishness and ...

Chicago homeowners will receive the bad news in the next few days. Second-half property tax bills are in the mail and, as always, they’re higher than last year. Keep an eye on the ongoing negotiations ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. When the twin towers fell on 9/11, America united as it ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. I biked down to DePaul University’s Lincoln Park campus ...

As one of the closest presidential races in American history enters its last weekend, veteran Illinois election experts aren’t being any more definitive than their national counterparts about how ...

Both Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker are out of the country today. Johnson is in London, Pritzker returning from a trip to Tokyo. But though both officials are on what they’ve described as ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. For a few weeks this summer, Chicago caught a glimpse of ...

For those seeking to decipher Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $16.6 billion 2026 city budget, a pair of items provide some clues as to the mayor’s real intent. One is the section of the city’s budget ...

What would happen if they held a big election and everyone pretty much yawned — except for special interests with their own agendas, not to mention their own war chests? That’s one of the bigger ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. For both fans and critics of Mayor Brandon Johnson, the ...

On the surface, the flaming rhetorical war between the president of the United States and the leaders of Chicago and Illinois couldn’t get much hotter. “What the federal government is trying to do is ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Once upon a time, the most popular figure in Illinois ...