R. Bruce Dold

Rudy Garcia seems like a fine gentleman and is probably a very decent lawyer. Everybody in Cook County will have to hope that he is, because Garcia could spend the...

So Illinois doesn't want to be the Garbage State after all. Gov. Jim Edgar used his State of the State speech Wednesday to renew his call for a repeal of...

When I was covering City Hall, I knew a guy who kind of worked for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. He was on the payroll because he was tight with...

Tell me who is a greater threat to the poor, their friends or their foes. The foes, at least, are straightforward: The poor will have to jump through hoops to...

Chicago doesn't readily defer to New York, whether it's dominance in basketball or architecture or sausage pizza. But something has happened--a distinction has shifted from Chicago to the metropolis in...

Great news for outsiders! You're on good paper again in the 2nd Congressional District. This wasn't always the case. When Gus Savage was the congressman, he liked to tick off...

My, you turned out to be a fickle band of revolutionaries. You, the voter. That wasn't just a midterm election you staged one year ago, it was a bloodless coup....

It's time for the Republicans to rescue Chicago again. They did it last spring, when the GOP leaders in the Illinois General Assembly rousted the old guard at the Chicago...

Earlier this week, a blueprint for controlling the media on behalf of the Chicago Bears was leaked to the Tribune and wound up on the front page. The plan was...

These are heady times for Aldo DeAngelis, a Republican state senator from Olympia Fields. He founded his own manufacturing company, and he's risen to assistant majority leader of the Illinois...