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Longtime Ald. Ed Burke returns to his Southwest Side home Thursday, Nov. 29, after federal raids on his offices earlier in the day. Burke released a statement telling those who love him not to worry.

Do the feds want Ald. Ed Burke wrapped up like a roast?

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

When the feds raided Ald. Ed Burke’s City Hall office Thursday, they wrapped the glass doors tight with brown butcher paper, and it looked like a nice, juicy crown roast...

In this October 2018 photo, American adventurer John Allen Chau, right, stands with founder of Ubuntu Football Academy Casey Prince in Cape Town, South Africa, days before he left for a remote Indian island where he was killed.

American missionary should have left that isolated island tribe alone

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

There is more bad news about John Allen Chau, the young American adventurer-missionary who insisted on visiting a forbidden Indian island to preach Christianity to the most isolated tribe on...

A migrant runs from tear gas launched by U.S. agents at the Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, on Nov. 25, 2018.

Democrats use tear gas image as sentimental weapon to avoid clearheaded immigration debate

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

If there is one thing worse than that photograph of a little Honduran boy breathing through an oxygen mask after being hit with tear gas on our Southern border, it’s...

Mr. Thanksgiving Advice Man says jellied cranberry sauce is merely Jell-O.

How to prepare a turkey with your tongue and other tips from Mr. Thanksgiving Advice Man

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

Mr. Thanksgiving Advice Man is here ready to help with sage advice for all your Thanksgiving needs. Mr. Thanksgiving Advice Man, if you were hosting Thanksgiving dinner and invited President...

Police salute as an ambulance arrives at the medical examiner's office carrying the body of an officer who was killed during a mass shooting at Mercy Hospital that left four people, including the gunman, dead on Nov. 19, 2018, in Chicago.

Police families, Thanksgiving and the wounds that won’t heal

May 31, 2019 at 4:11 p.m.

Chicago, the city of pain, has already suffered through the murders of two Chicago police officers this year, the most recent at Mercy Hospital & Medical Center on Monday. And...

CNN journalist Jim Acosta arrives at the White House after having his press pass restored Nov. 16, 2018.

Jim Acosta, on a peacock’s crusade, wins because of Trump-appointed judge

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

That a grandstanding show-pony like CNN’s Jim Acosta would be transformed by President Donald Trump into a First Amendment crusader knight is perhaps a sad but fitting comment on our...

James Swartz, director of the Massachusetts-based consumer safety group World Against Toys Causing Harm, displays a Black Panther Slash Claw as he introduces his group's annual list of the worst toys during a news conference Nov. 13, 2018.

What kid wouldn’t want a Black Panther Slash Claw?

May 31, 2019 at 4:12 p.m.

Just call me Mr. Toy Expert, because my children were given stupid toys by relatives and now my plan is to return the favor. With Toy Revenge. But first, there’s...

Zeus is back to his old rabbit-chasing, soccer-playing self after an uncertain malady. And he knows John Kass would have paid for expensive bloodwork to help him if necessary.

Our pet connection: A little white dog and the rainbow bridge

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

Zeus the Wonder Dog likes to play soccer with his feet, rolling his hard red ball on the wood floor. And in the winter, he’s been known to stash freshly...

A worker loads a ballot into a machine at the Broward County supervisor of elections office during a recount on Nov. 13, 2018, in Lauderhill, Fla.

Those crazy Florida recounts: It’s Johnny Rocco time, see?

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

I’d planned to spend the day begging editors for the hundreds of dollars it would cost for a ticket to see political rock star Michelle Obama launch her book (and...

Susana Mendoza, shown celebrating her victory in the state comptroller's race at a Democratic election night party on Nov. 6, 2018, seems to have two key power players ushering her toward the Chicago mayor's office instead.

If Boss Madigan and Rahm Emanuel conceived a daughter, she’d be Susana Mendoza

May 31, 2019 at 4:11 p.m.

Not a day goes by without someone telling me they’re glad that I am such an enlightened man. Yes, really. What can I say? As many of you already know,...

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