Hokey smoke! 20 finalists in the Tweet of the Week poll!
Instructions: Click the box next to each tweet that amuses you -- no limit to the number of choices. Voting closes Friday at noon Chicago time. Winner is published in...
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Column: Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s angry words fall short in response to the new cop video scandal
After stumbling out of the gate early in the week, Mayor Lori Lightfoot began saying most of the right things about the scandalously botched police raid on social worker Anjanette...
Column: Good news for grannies: Chicago moves cautiously to legalize coach houses
In May I published a column headlined "Wait a sec! Is it really time to re-legalize granny flats 63 years after Chicago banned them?" My argument was that the Chicago...
Nothing says Christmas like a super-size holiday Tweet of the Week poll
Instructions: Click the box next to each tweet that amuses you -- no limit to the number of choices. Voting closes Friday at noon Chicago time. Winner is published in...
Column: Attorney General Bill Barr hits a new low on his way out the door
Before this week, it was tough to identify the single most infamous act of William Barr's tenure as U.S. attorney general. Was it personally ordering the expansion of the security...
Column: It’s not just about Jill Biden — even physicians should drop the ‘doctor’ outside of professional contexts
Allow me to double down on the controversial notion that Jill Biden, wife of President-elect Joe Biden, should not routinely use the title "doctor" because her doctorate is in the...
Column: How to survive a carjacking and other timely scraps of advice
Another dispatch from Somebody Nobody Asked(TM), America's preeminent unsolicited advice columnist. Dear Local Motorists: Let the carjackers have your damn car. You're very likely to get it back. If you...
Column: Thanks, Warner Bros., from those of us who prefer watching movies at home
I will not be shamed into missing movie theaters. Every so often over these last dreadful nine months, my feelings of woe have been incrementally increased when I've come across...
Column: The Tweet of the Week poll, for a limited time only
Instructions: Click the box next to each tweet that amuses you -- no limit to the number of choices. Voting closes Friday at noon Chicago time. Winner is published in...
Column: ‘Songs of Good Cheer’ is going online, but just this year only, we hope!
For more than 20 years, my colleague Mary Schmich and I have hosted and performed at "Songs of Good Cheer," a holiday singalong program for charity put on in conjunction...