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Bill Conway, candidate for Cook County state's attorney, talks to the media Jan. 9.

Column: Donna More targets Kim Foxx over Jussie Smollett fiasco and Bill Conway for ties to his father’s influential investment firm

January 24, 2020 at 7:55 p.m.

Donna More, an experienced lawyer and prosecutor, isn't as well known as her opponents in the March 17 Democratic Party primary for Cook County state's attorney. Bill Conway has his...

Charles A. Comiskey, shown in an undated photo, was the owner of the Chicago White Sox during the 1919 World Series.

Column: The Astros cheated and should be banned from the big leagues for a year. But money talks.

January 24, 2020 at 5:35 a.m.

If Major League Baseball truly cared about the Astros cheating on their way to winning a World Series, there's one thing it could do: Ban the Astros for a year...

A court officer holds the door as Harvey Weinstein leaves a courtroom at the end of the first day of his trial on rape and sexual assault charges on Jan. 22, 2020, in New York.

Column: Harvey Weinstein, the onetime Hollywood ‘God,’ brings his prop walker to first day of rape trial

January 23, 2020 at 9:33 a.m.

The sexual assault trial of creepy Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein — once described by Meryl Streep as "God" — began Wednesday in New York. Once again he had his...

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: The U.S. Capitol is shown at dusk as the U.S. Senate begins the impeachment trial against U.S. President Donald Trump on January 21, 2020 in Washington, DC. The Senate is expected to work late into the night while the impeachment trial is taking place. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **

Column: Trump Impeachment Theater a farce to protect Democrats’ source of power: The federal administrative state.

January 22, 2020 at 5:30 a.m.

The partisan farce that is President Donald Trump Impeachment Theater is a political puppet show, a diversion that covers a truly titanic battle obscured by the dancing marionettes. The audience...

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx smiles at the 34th Annual Interfaith Breakfast celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 17, 2020, in Chicago.

Column: Why is Kim Foxx sticking taxpayers with a bill for her Jussie Smollett mess?

January 17, 2020 at 6:57 p.m.

With her reelection just two months away, why would Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx do something crazy like sticking taxpayers with her office's legal bills? She doesn't need to...

Attorney L. Lin Wood speaks to the media about his client British rescue diver Vernon Unsworth as they arrive at U.S. District Court on Dec. 3, 2019, in Los Angeles.

Column: L. Lin Wood, libel attorney for Nicholas Sandmann and Richard Jewell, gives out a warning to the media

January 17, 2020 at 12:00 a.m.

The other day, as my friend and Tribune colleague Kristen McQueary and I were filling in as hosts on the national broadcast of The Dan Proft Show, we took a...

Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders talk after Tuesday's primary debate in Des Moines, as businessman Tom Steyer looks on.

Column: CNN’s shameful treatment of Bernie Sanders

January 16, 2020 at 12:16 p.m.

What CNN did to Bernie Sanders in the Iowa Democratic presidential debate — stabbing him with the gender card on behalf of a weakened Elizabeth Warren — was cheap and...

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan at the State Capitol in Springfield in November

Column: Mike Madigan squashes legislative probe of that email about a rape. If he were a Republican, he’d be gone

January 15, 2020 at 10:31 a.m.

If only Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, the Democratic boss of Illinois, were a Republican. He'd already be gone, perhaps wandering in a castle in Ireland, laughing mirthlessly and...

Protesters in Covington, Kentucky, share their opinions in January 2019 after a video circulated showing Covington Catholic High students surrounding an elderly Native American man.

Column: ‘Richard Jewell,’ Nicholas Sandmann and the media mob

January 10, 2020 at 8:04 p.m.

While watching Clint Eastwood's great new film "Richard Jewell," about the heroic security guard of the Atlanta Olympics who saved lives only to be savaged by the media mob, I...

Column: Royal rebels Harry and Meghan can find freedom and independence on Chicago’s Southwest Side

January 10, 2020 at 12:27 p.m.

If those royal rebels Meghan Markle and Prince Harry really want to become as free and independent as they say, here's what they must do: Relocate to Chicago, find jobs...

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