Dennis Byrne

Political consultant David Axelrod is absolutely right: Whatever federal juries may conclude about the illegalities of the Chicago patronage system, the voters of Chicago will re-elect Mayor Richard M. Daley,...

Now that we've exhausted ourselves arguing the politics of the U.S. Supreme Court's "repudiation" of the Bush administration's handling of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, maybe we can take a closer...

The men's locker room is where you get your butt snapped with a wet towel. Where names are called, insults hurled, dirty stories told and resounding belches brought up. All...

John Stroger's family and friends are doing the Cook County Board president no favors by keeping his true medical condition a secret from the public. If Stroger, 77, is healthy,...

What Gov. Rod Blagojevich is trying to do to the state and its taxpayers used to be called "living out of the attic." That's selling your assets in order to...

Only in Chicago would a candidate for public office demand proof that his opponent is alive. Usually, that's a question reserved for certain mysterious voters. But here comes the Republican...

The sideshow put on by the Chicago aldermen during the City Hall corruption trial is almost as entertaining as the main attraction. Who but a bunch of Chicago aldermen would...

Good, now we've got something new to fight about--the Olympics. Whether Chicago should bid for the 2016 Olympics will provide fresh and irresistible material for commentary, politicking, demagoguery and, if...

On May 1, millions of illegal immigrants and their supporters marched to demand that huge numbers of their own immediately get out of America. I haven't seen anyone else put...

On an autumn weekend in 1958, we St. George High School "Dragons" filled 500--to be charitable--seats in Soldier Field. Far across the gridiron were the fans of another Catholic League...