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Chicago Police Department officers wait Dec. 18, 2018, for the bodies of two officers killed on duty the night before to arrive at the Cook County medical examiner's office in Chicago.

2 true public servants chase a gunman; that weasel Blagojevich chases a pardon

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

Right before Christmas, President Donald Trump had to go and pull that Blagojevich scab off corrupt Illinois. And he did it with a tweet. “Required television watching is last weeks...

David Krupa, 19, left, who is running for alderman in the 13th Ward, talks with supporters outside the Board of Elections hearing room on Dec. 15, 2018.

College kid beats back the Chicago machine and Boss Madigan blinks

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

DePaul University freshman David Krupa scored an impressive victory in Chicago politics on Saturday: Boss Madigan — the most powerful Democrat in Illinois — backed out of a challenge to...

Chicago mayoral candidates Paul Vallas, from left, Willie Wilson, Susana Mendoza, Garry McCarthy, Toni Preckwinkle, Amara Enyia, LaShawn K. Ford, Lori Lightfoot and Gery Chico stand before the start of a forum on Dec. 11, 2018.

Ringside at the main event: The race for mayor in Chicago

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

If anyone tells you they can predict the two Chicago mayoral candidates out of the massive field of 21 that will make the runoff in February, they’re either stoners or...

Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi outside the White House on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2018, after a meeting with President Donald Trump.

Chuck, Nancy, Donald and ‘The Wall’

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

There was a moment in that Trump, Chuck and Nancy meeting about “The Wall” at the White House when I thought Nancy would surely win the day. She’d put on...

David Krupa, 19, is running for 13th Ward alderman, daring to enter the turf of Democratic boss Michael Madigan.

Even a Daley says Boss Madigan has gone too far trying to crush DePaul freshman in 13th Ward

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

Chicago is known worldwide for its fine steakhouses, bone-breaking politics and ravenous political bosses. But now that the saga of a 19-year-old DePaul University freshman being crushed by powerful Boss...

We'll have to wait and see if John Kass can make a ham as spectacular as this one.

Green Eggs and Kass: A crisis of confidence over the holiday ham

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

The last thing I needed after a week of stressful politics was more stress, like the big Christmas dinner ham drama, glazed with dysfunctional Kass family holiday “issues” of my...

David Krupa, 19, who is running for 13th Ward alderman, filed 1,703 signatures of ward residents to petition to get on the ballot. Political workers went door to door with official legal papers and collected more than 2,700 affidavits of people revoking their signatures.

A college kid running for 13th Ward alderman gets a lesson in the Chicago Way

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

The history of the little guy being squashed by massive Chicago political clout at election time is just too long to print without weeping. But the story for today is...

George H.W. Bush was indeed a prudent man, and the world was better for it

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

The funeral of former President George H.W. Bush was a great celebration of a noble American patriot. There were the tears of his son that I won’t forget. And there...

Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia attends a meeting of the Cook County Board in Chicago in September 2018. Now an incoming U.S. congressman, Garcia's progressive, unlike political bosses of old.

Is Chuy Garcia still a movement progressive, or boss of a new machine?

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

When federal investigators raided the offices of longtime Chicago alderman Ed Burke last week, U.S. Rep.-elect Jesus “Chuy” Garcia had this to say: “Make no mistake. Ald. Burke is the...

State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, of Oswego, attends a joint Illinois House and Senate committee hearing in Chicago in January about the Legionnaires' disease problems at the state-run veterans home in Quincy.

Who wins the Golden Moutza of November? An idiot state rep. vs. the romaine ruiner

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

“I’m waiting to see what tomorrow brings,” Christine Engeris-Morely wrote as I was writing this Moutza of the Month column. “We have one more day for Moutzativity to break.” I...

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