Frank James

The Illinois Department of Public Aid is investigating charges that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Carol Moseley Braun took a $28,750 check from her mother so that Medicaid would continue paying...

Despite cutting hundreds of classes in its bid to save money, City Colleges of Chicago actually registered 12.4 percent more students last week compared to a year ago. But the...

As any honest man will admit, when it comes to women and sex, many of us fellas have a tendency to go hog wild. Actually, the unrestrained animal we`re more...

From all the media attention being paid to the Madison Square Garden goings on this week, you might think something surprising could happen, like the Democratic Party adopting a platform...

Spectator sports, so the long-held belief goes, serve as a safety valve for modern society, allowing everyday people to vent, in socially approved ways, aggressions that would otherwise erupt into...

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As Carol Moseley Braun was beginning her bid for the Democratic Senate nomination in December, it was widely viewed as an impossible dream. Braun, after all, was merely a glorified...

With her primary victory over Sen. Alan Dixon still reverberating across the political landscape, Carol Moseley Braun continued Thursday to get the TV coverage that eluded her earlier. Braun, who...

The financial stakes continue rising in the race for the U.S. Senate seat. Chicago lawyer Albert Hofeld spent another $475,000 of his own money this week in his campaign against...

The White Sox and Cubs don`t start playing for real until April, and Bulls tickets are hard to get. But for cheap thrills, as always, the elected public officials at...