Nobel ceremony moves University of Chicago professor to tears
He won this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics for work that showed human beings are not always the rational thinkers that traditional economists suppose. So it was both apt and...
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City-funded Logan Square mural a response to gentrification, alderman says
Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa isn’t always the most popular alderman among his go-along-to-get-along colleagues on a City Council that often acts as a rubber stamp for Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Last month,...
When Trump was nice to Chicago
Chicagoans may have become almost as desensitized to President Donald Trump bashing their city’s violence problem and leadership over the last couple of years as they have to the violence...
South Side soul food restaurant owner says he might have prevented Zimbabwean coup
The military coup that led to the resignation as president of Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe made international headlines Tuesday. But the spectacle of tanks on the streets of Harare could...
The Chicago philanthropist the cardinal called ‘heathen’
John Canning Jr. is one of Chicago’s biggest philanthropists — and a major supporter of Catholic nonprofits. But that didn’t stop Cardinal Francis George from giving the private equity investor...
Jackson divorce edging toward resolution
Are disgraced former power couple Jesse Jackson Jr. and Sandi Jackson finally ready to make peace? The stakes for mutually assured destruction in the couple’s bitter divorce have been ramping...
Ken Griffin’s Palm Beach tax bill trumps Trump’s
Another week, another superlative for Illinois’ richest man. This time Ken Griffin has outdone President Donald Trump, fellow hedge fund tycoon Nelson Peltz, shock jock Howard Stern, conservative pundits Rush...
In Chicago, Wall Street Journal editor mum about newsroom leaks
Wall Street Journal reporters could hardly get a word in edgewise when their editor, Gerard Baker, traveled with them to the White House earlier this year to interview President Donald...
Cards Against Humanity raises $2.25 million to fight Trump’s border wall, promote card game
If President Donald Trump wants to build his border wall, he’ll first have to beat the serial pranksters behind the “Cards Against Humanity” card game. At least that’s premise of...
Cupich suffers rare political defeat at hands of fellow U.S. bishops
Cardinal Blase Cupich has often been praised for his political savvy since he was installed in Chicago by Pope Francis. But Cupich suffered a rare setback Tuesday morning when his...