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Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks with a fellow traveler as he awaits his flight back to Chicago at Denver International Airport on Feb. 18, 2020, in Colorado after being released from prison earlier in the evening. "I can't wait to get home," Blagojevich said at the airport after President Donald Trump commuted the ex-Illinois governor's 14-year sentence.

Column: ‘Freed political prisoner’ Rod Blagojevich wallows in self-pity. Is he angling for a full pardon?

February 20, 2020 at 3:01 p.m.

Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich has completed his transition from gasbag to gaslighter. His brazen no-a-culpa to the media and assembled supporters outside his Northwest Side home Wednesday morning was filled...

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A quaint and curious volume of worthy tweets to keep your midnights undreary

February 18, 2020 at 5:59 p.m.

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President Donald Trump talks to reporters on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, announcing that he'd commuted the sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Column: Rod Blagojevich, Donald Trump and the circle of sleaze

February 18, 2020 at 4:32 p.m.

How can anyone be surprised? America's swampy, self-dealing, scofflaw, narcissist president has commuted the prison sentence of Illinois' swampy, self-dealing, scofflaw, narcissist former governor. I thought President Donald Trump might...

Workers ready the United Center in Chicago for the NBA's All-Star Weekend.

Column: An all-star idea for overhauling basketball

February 14, 2020 at 6:12 p.m.

The new scoring format for the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday at the United Center hints at a great idea for making basketball much more fun to watch. The exhibition...

President Donald Trump looks at his supporters after reading words from Al Wilson's song "The Snake" during a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Feb. 10, 2020.

Column: South Carolina Republicans’ plan: Help Trump by voting for Sanders in Dem primary. Will it work, or backfire?

February 13, 2020 at 5:05 p.m.

The idea is simple, elegant, devious and perfectly legal: Instead of voting for the candidate you prefer in your party's primary election, you ask at your polling place for the...

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, shown in 2019, is facing three Democratic challengers in the March 17, 2020, Illinois primary.

Column: Since Kim Foxx won’t tell you what really happened in the Jussie Smollett case, let me try

February 13, 2020 at 10:58 a.m.

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's defensive response Tuesday to the news that special prosecutor Dan Webb has re-indicted TV actor Jussie Smollett underscores that she still has no plans...

File: Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) hosts a campaign rally at the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center in Fairfield, Iowa.

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February 11, 2020 at 6:18 p.m.

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Taika Waititi after winning the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for "Jojo Rabbit" during the Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.

Column: Taika Waititi sings a new song at the Oscars: This land was their land

February 11, 2020 at 4:55 p.m.

Before introducing the winners of honorary Oscars during Sunday night's Academy Awards telecast, filmmaker Taika Waititi made a striking announcement. "The Academy would like to acknowledge that tonight we have...

President Donald Trump speaks at the 68th annual National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington, D.C.

Column: The emptiness behind President Trump’s references to school prayer

February 7, 2020 at 2:29 p.m.

Even before President Donald Trump defiled the traditionally apolitical National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday with partisan score-settling — the House Democrats who impeached him, he said, are "very dishonest and...

Lincoln Park High School students protest recent changes in school administration Feb. 6, 2020.

Column: Secrecy by CPS has made a bad situation worse at Lincoln Park High School

February 6, 2020 at 5:18 p.m.

Tight-lipped Chicago Public Schools officials are spraying gasoline on the flames of scandal at Lincoln Park High School. As you may have read or seen in numerous TV reports, in...

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