John McCarron

All through journalism school, I never wanted to write for a newspaper. I wanted to be Frederick Wiseman. Even back in the late '60s before "Nightline," "Frontline" or CNN, it...

The cost of selling a house in Chicago is going up by $50. Not many city dwellers know this. Neither of the city's major newspapers carried a story about it...

The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are. It...

It's time to cut Rich Daley some slack. Not much, because he sits behind the mayor's desk and that's where the buck is supposed to stop. But it's time, after...

My bus is doomed. It's scheduled to be un-scheduled next spring as part of the Chicago Transit Authority's massive ongoing cost-cutting program. This I confess upfront because today's sermon is...

Americans have a tendency to see China as either angel or devil. For a quarter of a century, the United States shunned all contact with the Communists who ruled the...

They cheered Steve Forbes last week during his luncheon speech to the Executives' Club of Chicago. And this, I confess, cheered me. Lately, I've been worried that Republicans, especially wealthy...

The continuing news blackout from Washington makes me uneasy. One gets the sense, during this journalistic state of siege, that important things are being decided in the cloakrooms of Capitol...

Have you heard about City Hall's plan to put part of Chicago's West Side off limits to yuppies? It's called the Kinzie Corridor Planned Manufacturing District. Mayor Richard Daley and...

What's all this talk about Illinois' road-building program not producing good value for the citizens of our state? Seems like everywhere you look, somebody is popping off about the low...