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A Cook County judge has given Oak Park's Tasty Dog until Sept. 14 to vacate its building at 708 Lake St. According to the village, the hot dog stand has not paid its rent in seven months.

Paul Sassone: The strange saga of Tasty Dog

May 13, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

Is it possible to be ignorant retroactively? I mean, I think I understand what is happening now. But I don't understand what went on before upon which what is happening...

Paul Sassone: What makes work great?

May 12, 2019 at 9:00 p.m.

Anything can be great. In the 1961movie "The Hustler,'' that's how Eddie Felsen (Paul Newman) explains his love of the game of pool to his girlfriend. If a guy knows...

Paul Sassone: U.S. has an outdated view of education

May 12, 2019 at 8:59 p.m.

So, I'm watching TV news and the newscaster tells me there is a nationwide teacher shortage. Nonsense, I tell the newscaster; there is no shortage of teachers. An outmoded way...

Paul Sassone: Do you remember your first day of school?

May 8, 2019 at 11:09 a.m.

School started in Oak Park on Monday. It makes me think back to my very first day in school. Do you remember yours? What I remember first is Bradley. Can't...

In this March 16 file photo, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk speaks to Illinois Republican Senate leader Christine Radogno in Chicago. The baiduhai reported Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015 that Kirk¿s campaign paid Mervyn Fombe-Abiko more than $43,000 between August 2013 and 2014 to be personal caregiver hired to assist the senator following a 2012 stroke. The newspaper also reported Fombe-Abiko was twice arrested on theft and fraud charges. A campaign reform organization questions whether Kirk used political donations for personal expenses.

Paul Sassone: Mark Kirk’s is a scary story when it comes to health care costs

May 12, 2019 at 8:59 p.m.

Sen. Mark Kirk is in a scary situation. Well, not necessarily Kirk himself. What's scary to me are some of the implications of news surrounding the U.S senator from Illinois....

The Oak Park Village Board gave approval to the Oak Park Station development at Lake Street and Harlem Avenue Aug. 3, a plan that will add 271 luxury apartments to downtown Oak Park.

Paul Sassone: Traffic gridlock on a Saturday afternoon

May 8, 2019 at 11:08 a.m.

I was an accidental tourist to hell on a recent Saturday afternoon. I was just west of Harlem Avenue driving east on North Boulevard. My goal was Oak Park Avenue....

This June 19 file photo shows the seal of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at SEC headquarters, in Washington. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 5 voted to order most public companies to disclose the ratio between their chief executives' annual compensation and median, or midpoint, employee pay. The new rule will take effect starting in 2017.

Paul Sassone: High CEO pay isn’t America’s problem

May 12, 2019 at 8:58 p.m.

This is meant to help. But is it helpful? Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a rule that would require most public companies to publish each year, starting...

School supplies for the upcoming school year sit in the Walsh families shopping cart in Target on West 95th Street and South Pulaski Road in Oak Lawn on Aug. 3.

Paul Sassone: Back to school time brings back memories

May 13, 2019 at 2:48 p.m.

It's a lie. I was going to start this off by writing I was there to check out the cost of school supplies for a column. But that's a lie....

Sassone: Hunting not a fair fight

May 12, 2019 at 8:57 p.m.

The only killer dentist I'd ever heard of was Doc Holliday. Until now. Walter Palmer, a Minnesota dentist, has been all over the news recently in connection with the perhaps-legal,...

A dog stops to smell the Divvy bikes in Chicago.

Sassone: Divvying up Divvy stations a dizzying proposition

June 15, 2018 at 11:31 a.m.

If we can't have it, we want it all the more. That's what I felt when I looked at the map in the Oak Leaves of the 13 proposed locations...

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