Ald. Rey Colon, 35th, recently pushed an ordinance through the City Council that allows free parking on Logan Square's historic boulevards...
Get the full story >>Cook County's health system is running a projected $96 million revenue shortfall this year. Administrators should learn next week if they...
Get the full story >>It's an old truism that the stock market balances fear and greed. Lately, fear has come out on top.
Get the full story >>Sunday was splendid for beach-goers and bikers. But it also brought nasty tail winds from the first credit downgrade in United States...
Get the full story >>The human population will top 7 billion later this year, on its way to 9 billion in 2050.
Get the full story >>This should be the moment — a reprise of 1986 — when Democrats and Republicans join forces to pass ambitious tax reform.
Get the full story >>Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has shown he will stop at nothing to suppress the opposition that has arisen during the Arab Spring. But he...
Get the full story >>Want a small taste of how we got to a $14.3 trillion national debt?
Get the full story >>By any measure, Lollapalooza is a behemoth. Last year, the music festival grossed about $20 million. It posted a new attendance record: 240,...
Get the full story >>Someone who drinks to excess and gets behind the wheel of a car can be prosecuted and punished for driving under the influence. Everyone...
Get the full story >>Gov. Pat Quinn is denying that politics played a role in the daughter of a politically powerful couple getting a six-figure position with...
Get the full story >>"Across Atlanta Public Schools, staff worked feverishly in secret to transform testing failures into successes. Teachers and principals...
Get the full story >>There's cause for gloom as Congress and the president boot the hard decisions in their debt-ceiling-and-deficits deal to a so-called...
Get the full story >>The state's 44 regional school superintendents aren't getting paid. In late June, Gov. Pat Quinn zeroed out $11.3 million in the state...
Get the full story >>"You mean to tell me that the success of the program and my re-election hinges on the Federal Reserve and a bunch of (expletive) bond...
Get the full story >>For a few minutes, anyway, America's political leaders got the applause they craved from the financial markets Monday morning.
Get the full story >>Let's be sure to attach the word "tentative" to the debt ceiling deal that members of Congress will begin debating Monday — and then...
Get the full story >>Halfway up a wee hill, the fuselage had landed in the backyards of Rosebank Crescent. Bob Edgar … counted 18 bodies in his own...
Get the full story >>First there was Chatty Cathy, the baby doll who said "I love you" (or one of 10 other phrases) when a child pulled the string on her neck....
Get the full story >>Memo to: Dr. Ramanathan Raju, CEO of Cook County Health and Hospitals System
Get the full story >>Liberals hoped that Obama would overturn conservative policies and launch a new era of government activism. Although Republicans routinely...
Get the full story >>When Hugo Chavez's Twitter account went silent for 12 days in early June, the whole world knew something was up.
Get the full story >>He was young, lean and, at 140 pounds, more agile than musclebound. He most likely had learned enough about girls' scents to find them...
Get the full story >>After the General Assembly approved legislation in May to build a better electricity network and cut red tape for ComEd and Ameren, two...
Get the full story >>Last spring, the new leaders at Chicago State University visited the Tribune editorial board to deliver a message: This school has had a lot...
Get the full story >>Jade Garza and Hannah Kendall, of Sterling, Ill., were 14-year-old best friends whose Facebook page describes how they laughed together...
Get the full story >>In the Old Testament version, Joshua's Israelites marched around and around Jericho, blew their ram's horns, and shouted their battle cry....
Get the full story >>Now this is the kind of labor-management dispute we love.
Get the full story >>Neither of them wants to admit that he's at the whim of forces he can't control. But the two congressional leaders pushing rival plans to...
Get the full story >>Norway's homegrown terrorist is an admirer of the Unabomber and a student of the ways of Timothy McVeigh who nods to the work of Osama bin...
Get the full story >>The U.S. Constitution gives Congress a variety of specific responsibilities, among them levying taxes, establishing post offices,...
Get the full story >>In the midst of this summer's blockbuster movie season, filmgoers are being bombarded by boy wizards, bone-crushing transformers, and...
Get the full story >>Airline security has required some concessions in privacy, but last year the stakes got higher. The Transportation Security Administration,...
Get the full story >>There's going to be a day when you see sullen liberal and conservative members of Congress pretending to make nice at an Oval Office signing...
Get the full story >>How bitterly partisan is Washington? Take a look at the Hinder the Administration's Legalization Temptation Act, the HALT Act.
Get the full story >>About one in five llinoisans gets health coverage through Medicaid. Do all those people actually live in Illinois? Do some of them earn...
Get the full story >>Migraine sufferers are all around us. Twelve percent of Americans — almost one in eight — are occasionally affected, and most of...
Get the full story >>You've probably heard about the ATF operation called Operation Fast and Furious. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
Get the full story >>The giant Westfield Group knows food courts. It knows shopping centers. It doesn't, however, know Richard M. Daley, at least not as well...
Get the full story >>If you are a man of a certain age — not young, not ancient — then you know there's not much on television devoted to your...
Get the full story >>Last year, Gov. Pat Quinn refused to sign a bill that pretended to set limits on the General Assembly friends-and-family scholarship scam....
Get the full story >>A discredited school superintendent in west suburban Cook County resigns, apologizes to his community … and walks away with a $100,000...
Get the full story >>Cellphones might cause cancer. One thing we're sure they cause: distractions. Those distractions can range from mildly irritating...
Get the full story >>Secrecy and anonymity are becoming relics of a bygone age. Anyone living in modern America has gotten used to the unblinking stare of...
Get the full story >>The people of Illinois might go along with some limited expansion of legalized gambling — most notably a Chicago casino to separate...
Get the full story >>Words can come back to bite you. Former Boston Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette was mocked for years over the famous "twilight" line...
Get the full story >>This will come as a shock to the thousands of area residents who had to throw away their spoiled food and sweat the night away in the dark...
Get the full story >>We compleatly unnerstand if incomming high skool juniors arond the state are heigh-fivving each other these deys. They've herd the news thet...
Get the full story >>July is usually the time for blockbuster action at the movie house, not the schoolhouse. This summer is different.
Get the full story >>The Illinois Association of Realtors has admitted to peddling inflated sales prices in its latest report on Chicago condos and houses, and...
Get the full story >>The defense budget has been growing at a brisk pace in recent years, one reason the federal deficit is so big. But fiscal realities are...
Get the full story >>Let's all keep stipulating that, unfortunately, the United States needs to raise its debt ceiling so it can keep borrowing more than $4...
Get the full story >>When you read last week that terrorists have discussed surgically implanting explosives in passengers so they could blow up airliners, did...
Get the full story >>Take a stroll Tuesday and you might encounter "informational picket lines" at 75 state work sites across Illinois. The demonstrators, many...
Get the full story >>DuPage County Sheriff John Zaruba's deputies have helped circulate his nominating petitions, passed out fliers, staked out his campaign...
Get the full story >>June 27, 2011: Jurors convict Rod Blagojevich on 17 counts of public corruption. In essence, those jurors reject the defrocked governor's...
Get the full story >>Sunday dawns in Washington with a chance that, by nightfall, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders will cut a grand deal to...
Get the full story >>The war that tugged the U.S. and its allies into Libya is in its fourth month. NATO warplanes have flown more than 11,500 sorties against...
Get the full story >>The Obama administration has showered Illinois with about $1.6 billion for high-speed rail and other upgraded service, part of its vision...
Get the full story >>Under the War Powers Act, President Barack Obama had until Friday to get congressional authorization to continue U.S. military operations in...
Get the full story >>"… And as we enter this new season, it's time to leave behind old setbacks, disappointments and battles. Because in the campaign...
Get the full story >>At a press conference Feb. 15, President Barack Obama defended his reluctance to offer a long-range plan for curbing the federal debt. To do...
Get the full story >>One of the main problems with the Obama administration's policy on Libya has been its confusing incoherence. Americans have been given...
Get the full story >>For the Obama administration, the crisis in Libya represents more of a risk than an opportunity. Moammar Gadhafi has always been a tyrant,...
Get the full story >>By now you're probably familiar with the plight of Mark Geinosky, who got 24 bogus parking tickets in 14 months. The Tribune's What's Your...
Get the full story >>Attorney General Eric Holder surprised many people, and provoked a few, when he said the administration will no longer fight in court to...
Get the full story >>President Barack Obama had been readying himself for Tuesday night's State of the Union address since the Nov. 2 election, the electorate'...
Get the full story >>With startling arrogance and audaciously twisted reasoning, two appellate judges ignored more than 100 years of legal precedent, invented a...
Get the full story >>After watching a race between horses, dogs or Pinewood Derby cars, spectators don't ascribe the outcome to the superior character of the...
Get the full story >>It's nostalgic to recall the early days of e-commerce, when forcing online retailers to collect sales tax would have threatened their...
Get the full story >>Rod Blagojevich didn't do the math before decreeing that senior citizens should ride the buses and trains for free. His only calculation was...
Get the full story >>On Wednesday this lame-duck legislature quacks its last. Don't be astonished if, in coming months, you read exposes about exiting...
Get the full story >>Republicans swept to control of the U.S. House in November with a bold promise that resonated with voters: "We are here because we heard the...
Get the full story >>Chicago Cultural Affairs Commissioner Lois Weisberg, the only remaining member of Mayor Richard M. Daley's original cabinet, announced...
Get the full story >>Back when we were in fourth grade, Miss Luhman had a very effective method for controlling a class that grew too rowdy.
Get the full story >>In 2005, a judge deemed Seung-Hui Cho "an imminent danger to himself as a result of mental illness," and ordered him to undergo mental...
Get the full story >>With all the talk of financial crises in Illinois governments, it would be easy to overlook the $1 million that Chicago Public Schools and...
Get the full story >>Hard to imagine United Airlines and American Airlines filing a joint lawsuit against Chicago if their booster-in-chief weren't retiring in...
Get the full story >>Different times call for different mayors. Mediator, manager, uniter, developer, good cop, bad cop, salesman, visionary … in 21 years,...
Get the full story >>All the bluster on Capitol Hill about punishing China for suppressing the value of its currency misses the bigger picture: We and the...
Get the full story >>Here's something to digest with your big new Illinois income tax increase:
Get the full story >>Many Latinos have grown frustrated by the failure of Democrats and Republicans to craft a comprehensive reform of national immigration...
Get the full story >>A few weeks ago, we asked readers to tell us about the one adult other than a parent who most profoundly affected their childhood. Not...
Get the full story >>Beyond the challenges that face every U.S. metropolis — uneven schools, violent crime, job shortages and more — you already know...
Get the full story >>We have a news media that is psychologically ill-informed but politically inflamed, so it naturally leans toward political explanations....
Get the full story >>This week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got a chilly reception when she told a conference of Arab leaders in Qatar of the urgent...
Get the full story >>If Gov. Pat Quinn really wants to vacuum up all the money he possibly can for the state, he needs to take more careful aim.
Get the full story >>Barack Obama showed a talent for political strategy in 2008, upending the favorite, Hillary Clinton, in the Democratic primaries and...
Get the full story >>Good night, sleep tight. Try not to think about those bloodsucking little Cimex lectularius pests, coming soon to a mattress near...
Get the full story >>With his navy slacks and dress shirt still creased from his mother's iron, 4-year-old Edenzoe Diaz reported for his first day of preschool...
Get the full story >>By Chicago Public Schools' own reckoning, about a quarter of its elementary schools and more than 40 percent of its high schools are...
Get the full story >>Looking closely at your 401(k) has been painful lately, and it's going to get even worse.
Get the full story >>President Barack Obama took office 16 months ago with a clear anti-terror mission: Don't be Bush. Obama generally avoided the George W. Bush...
Get the full story >>Rhode Island's Central Falls High School faces a world of problems. Not quite half of the freshmen class of 2005 went on to graduate last...
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