R. Bruce Dold

There was a time when nothing could slow down Bud Freeman but the end of his 32 bars, when his torrid tenor saxophone would drop from his lips and the...

State Rep. Richard Mulcahey has a radical idea for Illinoisans to consider as they drop their state income tax returns into the mailbox. Only weeks after last month`s primary revealed...

Gambling and prostitution arrests by Cook County Sheriff`s police have plunged since Sheriff James O`Grady took office in 1986, a period during which the department`s vice section has been working...

Mindful that Earth Day XX is just around the corner and that the environment needs all the protecting it can get, the Mayfair United Methodist Church has canceled its annual...

There`s revolution in the air. The barons of baseball and their millionaire minions in uniforms have gone too far. We`re mad as hell and . . . you know the...

Top Democratic officials led by U.S. Sen. Paul Simon embarked on a six-city fly-around Monday in a final bid to nominate two women to the Illinois Democratic ticket for the...

So many politicians are tripping over each other in the Loop these days that it`s getting dangerous for pedestrians. The Press Conference has become an epidemic. On Tuesday, politicians held...

Chicago is no stranger to scandal, what with hidden cameras that peer at politicians in the Counsellors Row restaurant and mobsters who prove in taped conversations that, if nothing else,...

If Rep. Gus Savage`s decade-long career in Congress is in jeopardy, it might not be because of his highly publicized rebuke by the House ethics committee, or his rantings at...

It seemed like a Rubik`s Cube of political endorsements for a while as three diverse Democrats praised both or one of the other Thursday, hoping to boost their prospects in...