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Eric Trump appears on the "Fox & Friends" television program in New York on Jan. 17, 2018. The Trump Organization says an employee of a Chicago cocktail lounge spit on him on June 25, 2019.

Column: That waitress who spit on Eric Trump? She’s lucky I’m not king.

June 27, 2019 at 8:47 p.m.

That Chicago waitress accused of spitting on Eric Trump at the fancy Chicago cocktail lounge The Aviary should consider herself lucky that I am not king. She should also thank...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks in an interview on April 22 at the Thompson Center.

Column: Gov. J.B. Pritzker should establish an Office of GSGBO (Get Stoned or Get the Bleep Out) to make a few bucks off those fleeing the state

June 27, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

What is Illinois — the Shut Up and Take It State — truly known for? Tennessee, for example, is known for Jack Daniels, country music and that famous horse, The...

Former Judge Sheila O'Brien, who petitioned for a special prosecutor to be appointed in the Jussie Smollett case, talks with members of the news media at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on May 23, 2019, in Chicago.

Column: Cook County owes thanks to retired Judge Sheila O’Brien for getting a special prosecutor on the Jussie Smollett case

June 26, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

With that noose of fresh white clothesline draped around his neck like a silk scarf, the TV actor and Obama White House entertainer Jussie Smollett had finally achieved the look...

Former state appellate Judge Sheila O'Brien is at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on June 21, 2019, following a hearing where a Cook County judge ordered the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the controversial decision to drop all charges against Jussie Smollett.

Column: Kim Foxx: AWOL master and commander of Jussie Smollett saga?

June 21, 2019 at 7:07 p.m.

If you thought that Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's Jussie Smollett fiasco couldn't get any worse, it quite clearly can. At least for her. But not for the people...

Former Vice President Joe Biden kicks off his presidential campaign in Philadelphia on May 18, 2019.

Column: Say it ain’t so Joe Biden: Does civility have no home here?

June 21, 2019 at 6:42 a.m.

How will Joe Biden survive next week's presidential debates now that his fellow Democratic opponents have fitted him for the white hood? He won't. And just days before the Democratic...

Officials remove items from the ward office of Ald. Carrie Austin, 34th, in the 500 block of West 111th Street in Chicago on June 19, 2019.

Column: After indictment of Ald. Ed Burke, City Hall not surprised when feds raid offices of Ald. Carrie Austin

June 20, 2019 at 9:29 a.m.

If you closely follow Chicago's City Hall, then you weren't all that surprised when feds raided the offices of Ald. Carrie Austin, 34th, and carried out boxes of evidence. That...

President Donald Trump, left, and Attorney General William Barr arrive for a Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor presentation ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington on May 22, 2019.

Column: AG Bill Barr must find true reasons for Trump/Russia probe

June 19, 2019 at 9:34 a.m.

With so much political noise in the air, with President Donald Trump and AOC calling their partisan bannermen to political war, it's almost impossible for Americans to hear themselves think....

A father and son share time mowing the lawn. You don't have to get your dad a darn thing for Father's Day.

Plenty of bad ideas and a few good ones for Hail to the Patriarch Day

June 14, 2019 at 8:23 p.m.

I don't enjoy other people's emotional pain, but there is something quite pleasurable in the panic experienced by "some people" just before Hail to the Patriarch Day. It's also known...

A Chicago Fire fan holds up a team scarf after a score by the Fire against the New England Revolution at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview on May 8, 2019.

The loneliness of the Chicago Fire fan

June 14, 2019 at 5:00 a.m.

Is there anything lonelier that being a Chicago Fire fan? Sure. Being a conservative in a liberal media town can be lonely, but the truth is I feel more love...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs the Reproductive Health Act into law at the Chicago Cultural Center on June 12, 2019, with bill sponsors Illinois state Sen. Melinda Bush, left, and Illinois state Rep. Kelly Cassidy, right.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker cheered as he signs abortion bill, but what is the cost?

June 21, 2019 at 3:18 p.m.

Desperate politicians are apt to do desperate things, and the other day, Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's desperation led her to something truly remarkable: She spoke the truth of how Democrats...