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Justice Samuel Alito, center, appears with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in 2019.

Column: Governors’ holiday menus include coronavirus stress test for the Constitution

November 25, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

During the pandemic, what are some of America's governors serving up for the Thanksgiving through Christmas season? A stress test for the Constitution and a crackdown on individual liberty. That's...

Jim Banakis in his restaurant Juicy-O in Downers Grove on Nov. 17, 2020. He's been in the business all his life.

Column: The governor born with a platinum spoon, and the restaurateurs losing everything

November 20, 2020 at 5:55 p.m.

When the pandemic began and Gov. J.B. Pritzker, born with that platinum spoon in his mouth, began issuing those restaurant shutdown edicts, you could find people facing it with stubborn...

Speaker Michael Madigan watches as the House votes on a bill at the Illinois Capitol in Springfield in 2019.

Column: As that federal bus pulls up, do Boss Madigan’s eyes see three names: Sorich, Kelly and Fawell?

November 20, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

The eyes of Boss Madigan aren't all that normal. There's no trust in there. He has seen too much in politics to trust anyone. And there's nothing normal about the...

Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1966. He held the office for 21 years.

Column: Lockdown pols making ‘rules for thee but not for me’ should look to a mayor who didn’t ‘act big’

November 19, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

It's been amusing watching coronavirus lockdown politicians of both parties scrambling to apologize after they've been caught violating their own edicts at fancy gatherings. It's that insulting coronavirus "rules for...

Column: Abolish Electoral College? Sure, and why not let ‘majority rule’ on the Bill of Rights?

November 18, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

When we were kids on the playground and there was an angry dispute, someone would always shout "majority rules." And we'd vote. If the losers didn't like the outcome, there...

Walter Nogulich's daughter Natalija Nogulich brushes his hair on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2020, in his Niles home.

Column: For 100-year-old World War II vet and his bride, it was all destiny

November 12, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

Walter Nogulich, 100 years old this month, was called "Wiffy" by his friends in Chicago because he was such a fast ballplayer in the neighborhood. But after the Normandy invasion,...

A sign posted on a lawn reads "Bye Don" as general election ballots are still being tabulated in Philadelphia on Nov. 10, seven days after the country went to the polls. The state was called for Joe Biden on Saturday.

Column: Talking unity while playing with fire

November 11, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

Just after the media declared him the presumptive president-elect of the United States, Democrat Joe Biden invoked the Old Testament in an inspiring speech about unifying the divided nation that...

House Speaker Michael Madigan smiles before Gov. J.B. Pritzker's budget address in Springfield, Feb. 19, 2020.

Column: If there’s no Boss Madigan, who’ll herd the cats with Illinois in crisis?

November 6, 2020 at 7:08 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin have just made their moves on Mike Madigan, speaker of the Illinois House and chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party. The week...

Column: Oh, say can you see that big blue wave?

November 6, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

Americans need something majestic to look at now, what with lawyers contesting the outcome of the election between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Those lawyers are like dogs fighting...

Candidate for Cook County state's attorney Pat O'Brien' concedes the race outside his election night event, Nov. 3, 2020, at White Eagle Events & Convention Center in Niles.

Column: Boss Preckwinkle and that political hit on Judge Toomin for Kim Foxx

November 5, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

After her impressive reelection victory the other night, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx made a passionate speech about justice and those bad old days. There was one line that...

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