Last night at the premiere of The Great Buck Howard, we asked director Sean McGinley what it was like working with John Malkovich, who plays the has-been mentalist. Because he seems, well, kind of scary: “You know, the company that financed this film, they came to me about two weeks before we ...

Three Proviso East High School sophomores are the latest in a growing group of dumbass teens students lacking good judgment: they're in hot water over getting into a fight and posting it on YouTube. From the Sun-Times: Two are charged with felony aggravated battery and felony mob action, while the t...

CTA Circle Line Conceptual Plan (2002), via Chicago-L The long-rumored CTA Circle Line is one step closer to reality this morning after the U.S. Congress passed the omnibus spending package yesterday; the bill includes a $6 million earmark for the line. The bill counted Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin amo...

Having been at a Conference a few days ago, I was reminded of something. I have several times been asked how companies can help PHP. And my typical answer is about contributing tests and making sure PHP runs under or with their products, be that operating systems, databases or other back ends; or to...

White House social secretary Desirée Rogers has spent most of the first weeks of her job inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but was lured to New York for the School of American Ballet's winter ball by her friend Pamela Joyner, who chaired the event. "I would say right now, you know, most of my ti...

                      The infamous Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas hit up the Hyde Park campus of the University of Chicago yesterday, one of three at the University. According to a report last month by Chi Town Daily News: The group i...

Photo by Marcus Gilmer/Chicagoist WXRT hasn't been shy about promoting today's "U2 Day" on the station, featuring U2-themed events, music, and specials all day. Speculation around where else the megaultrasuperstar band may be appearing in town has been running rampant, however. Over at Time Out Chic...

From left to right, Jack Connolly (7), Duncan Connolly (9), and their father, Michael Connolly; Photos from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, via Chicago Breaking News An amber alert has been issued for two brothers from downstate LeRoy - 7-year-old Jack D. Connolly (left) and ...

Before I begin this, I feel the need to stress how much I really do love the Marine Corps. If not for the Corps, I would never have met Anna, I wouldn’t have my beautiful baby girl and a son on the way, and there really is no telling where I would be in this world given the economy and general cra...

AP Photo/M. Spencer Green While he won't reveal any details until a budget address on March 18, it seems Governor Quinn is looking to spend a lot of money in the coming year: $25 billion, to be precise. Quinn wants to spend the money, according to the Trib, on "a statewide construction program to im...