R. Bruce Dold

I got a letter the other day from a couple of lawyers in a little town outside of St. Louis. The letter said they had filed a lawsuit against Ameritech...

It seems like a long time ago that Chicago politics was so raw and so saturated with race-baiting that the city had to have its own Department of Rhetoric Enforcement....

Few matters in government waste more money and do more to protect politicians from voters than the once-a-decade redrawing of political maps. When the 2000 Census figures come out, politicians...

When they choose the cast for "Impeachment: The Movie," Angela Lansbury would make a great House Republican manager. I'm thinking of the Angela Lansbury in "The Manchurian Candidate." That's the...

The architects hired to reinvent Grant Park have grand designs for the Lakefront Millennium Project, which will replace the bedraggled Petrillo Music Shell as the site for concerts in the...

With a little more than three weeks to go until Chicago's election, City Treasurer Miriam Santos has just been indicted. Ald. Virgil Jones has just been convicted of taking bribes....

Only in Chicago would you find a street named in honor of a crooked alderman who avoided going to prison for taking bribes because death finished him before the U.S....

It was all bipartisan sweetness and light on Monday at Gov. George Ryan's inauguration, what with the kind words Ryan offered for countless Democrats as Mayor Richard Daley looked on...

Chicagoans are a forgiving lot, even when it comes to clueless mayors who get flustered at the sight of snow. Consider Michael Bilandic. Everyone knows that he was mayor when...

If I were J. Dennis Hastert, I would spend this New Year's Day plotting to steal candy from babies and roust the homeless from warming shelters. Anything to improve his...