Even Catholic schools are feeling the pinch in these troubled economic times, and one Chicago Heights high school is playing hardball in order to pay the bills. Marian Catholic High School yanked 300 students out of their classrooms on Monday because their parents owed between $750 and $5,000 in tui...

In our youth, we were one of those kids that liked to dream big and routinely answered the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" with "Astronaut." While that didn't quite work out (nor did our second choice of playing in the NBA) and we wound up with the equally lofty career of writin...

No, we're not talking about these plates again. Now that Blago is out of the way, the Illinois House can get back to the important business of the state like creating new specialty license plates. The plate, approved by the House yesterday, would be added to the growing number of specialty designs a...

                  After Chicagoist spotlighted the annual Chicago Polar Plunge for Special Olympics over the weekend, we decided to head down to North Avenue beach yesterday to watch the festivities and grab some photos. Sure, we knew it was going to be c...

A couple months ago, there was a dust up when Chicago Reader's web editor Whet Moser became justifiably irate after he discovered The Huffington Post had republished a Reader Critic's Choice piece in its entirety. Now we're talking about a mammoth website lifting content again, but this time with di...

                            While most were checking out the last day of the Chicago Auto Show, we decided to head over to the west end of McCormick Place to visit the Swans at the International Kennel Club dog show. Almost 1,000 ...

"It's sickening. Short of Roland Burris resigning or resolving this issue — if he can, and I don't know if he can — I don't know what will stop it. I'm tired of this Blagojevich burlesque that's been going on for so long. The people of our state should be spared this." -- U.S. Sen. Dick ...

After our new Gov. Pat Quinn spent the morning with a Sharpie crossing out "Lt." on all his business cards, he got right to work trying to clean off the stank of our (good god we love saying this) now former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The first order of business was to issue an executive order bringing t...

Photo by trippchicago Mayor Daley on Blago: "I’ve said, ‘cuckoo’ once. I’ll say it again: ‘Cuckoo.’" We remember skipping college classes to stay home to eat popcorn and watch the OJ Simpson verdict. We might have to play hooky again on Monday, when ABC7 will have...

Photo from the Library of Congress As Rod Blagojevich's reign of terror is hopefully coming to an end, we thought we would take a look at the man who started this disturbing trend of Illinois Governors taking the perp walk, Otto Kerner, Jr. Kerner was the son of Otto Kerner, Sr., a Cook County Circu...